The house I ultimately bought was something she found via her network of colleagues before it even was placed on the market. That's my experience too. My agent

The house I ultimately bought was something she found via her network of colleagues before it even was placed on the market. That's my experience too. My agent notified me of a property that was "probably going to be sold". I liked the description; he came back to me a month later to say it was going to be sold. I took a tour a week later, prepared an offer a week after that, and submitted the offer the week after that- on the same day it was listed . Suffice to say, I had "some" advance notice on this property! Without the agent, I would have been much too late to the party. I went under contract with the seller 12 hours after submitting my offer, competing against another offer that had been submitted that day.