HIP's, Licenced Conveyancers and HouseNetwork.co.uk

coopertrooper2001

We are just about to sell our house and I am looking for recommendations for the following:

HIP supplier

Recommended licenced conveyencers - hopefully ones you have used personally. I am keen to go online to try and speed things up.

Housenetwork - your reviews good or bad? I am pretty sold on the idea of using them.

I am in North East Hampshire.

Thanks.

Doozergirl

HIP supplier - www.hip4u.co.uk Have received good comments on this site and most importantly are cheap! Works out at £204 inclusive of VAT. Our EPC man came out the day after I paid for the HIP.

I have used online conveyancers but if you're not experienced at buying and selling then I'd really think twice about it. I had to chase around for them, knew what to anticipate and had a fantastic relationship with our buyers/vendors and kept it all together. That said, our buyer's solicitors were local and they didn't do much either. I used Roberts Solicitors through their http://www.conveyancing-warehouse.com site. I can't outright criticise them but it could have been better. Ultimately, we got to completion on the original agreed date and it cost me peanuts. Whether I'd use them again... I would but for selling only I think. There is too much at stake for them to get a purchase wrong and I'd rather pay the local solicitor which I have who are very good and whom I trust.

http://www.housenetwork.co.uk- there is a thread going at the moment - can only be a page or so down the board which has people with recent experience of House Network. I have used them three times in the past and been very happy and I am seriously considering using them again shortly. I anticipate that 'googler' will however come onto this thread and tell us again that in Scotland they don't use rightmove so much and that House Network are pointless. Except you're in Hampshire, but googler will tell you about Scotland again anyway. googler hasn't used House Network but likes to criticise them. I think they might be jealous that we have House Network and they don't

I've used each of those three sites based on recommendations from this board and didn't take any of those decisions lightly - especially House Network who I was initially dubious about but wrongly so. I've been on this board a while and House Network have always been the internet agent of choice.

Richard_Webster

I have used online conveyancers but if you're not experienced at buying and selling then I'd really think twice about it. I had to chase around for them, knew what to anticipate and had a fantastic relationship with our buyers/vendors and kept it all together. That said, our buyer's solicitors were local and they didn't do much either. I used Roberts Solicitors through their http://www.conveyancing-warehouse.com site. I can't outright criticise them but it could have been better. Ultimately, we got to completion on the original agreed date and it cost me peanuts. Whether I'd use them again... I would but for selling only I think. There is too much at stake for them to get a purchase wrong and I'd rather pay the local solicitor which I have who are very good and whom I trust.

Doozer has obviously bought and sold quite a few times and understands the process well enough to control what the online people do. Do you have this level of confidence? That's the question she is asking.

Phone round local conveyancers/solicitors and ask what they charge, including possible/likely extras - get a feel for how they are going to deal with you. Get the estimates in writing and compare them.

googler

"I anticipate that 'googler' will however come onto this thread and tell us again that in Scotland they don't use rightmove so much and that House Network are pointless."

Don't need to, now that you've said it for me.

"Except you're in Hampshire, but googler will tell you about Scotland again anyway."

I wouldn't have, 'cos it's obvious where the OP is. I would only have pointed out the limited reach of HN and RM if there's no indication where the poster is; or if someone else had pitched in with something like "I wouldn't use an agent who didn't use Rightmove" .

"googler hasn't used House Network but likes to criticise them. I think they might be jealous that we have House Network and they don't "

Haven't used it - yes, guilty as charged.

Like to criticise it - no, just point out that it seems less appropriate in Sco.... oops, I mean less appropriate the further north you are. I'm not jealous at all - it seems to me that those making the most inroads into the Scottish property market are those offering a full service offering, rather than a limited one. But that's another story. If anyone sees an HN listing in Scotland, please let me know where it is. There were none the last time I looked.



Why do you feel the need to single me out as a non-congruent voice in a thread that I haven't yet posted in?

Doozergirl

googler wrote: »

Why do you feel the need to single me out as a non-congruent voice in a thread that I haven't yet posted in?

Because you would have. And you did. And because it would be nice if each house network conversation wasn't all about YOU. Who has never used HN but has more opinion on it than anyone on the planet.

And because you make me want to hit my head against a wall.

:wall: :wall: :wall: :wall:

googler

"... because you make me want to hit my head against a wall."

It's an open, un-moderated forum. You can choose whether you come here or not. You can choose to read my comments or not. You can choose to comment on them or not. If that's the way you feel, you could leave and join another forum ......

As long as you're essentially polite about what you say, and I'm the same with what I say, we should be able to co-exist as happy posters, but for some reason you don't seem to see it that way.

Ah, well....

paulfelce

I'm thinking of trying Jane Earl to get a listing on rightmove. A bit cheaper than house network. Anyone have any experience of them?

googler

I have no experience of them. But since you mentioned them;

They claim to run google adwords which will 'get you on page 1 of search results' - the first property on their homepage is in Poynton, so into google and type "property for sale poynton". Nothing. Not in the adwords section, nor the organic search results. So that doesn't appear to work too well.

They claim 'nationwide coverage' of England and Wales. As a Scot, that immediately rings alarm bells for me......

If all you want is a Rightmove listing, then go for it - but it looks as though you'll be doing all the work yourself. They'll come out to your house to measure it and make sure there's no property misdescription, but apart from that you'll be left to deal with their automated viewing arrangement system (a glorified answering machine?)

Are you in Hertfordshire?

paulfelce

Thanks for doing that bit of legwork for me, I hadn't considered checking their google credentials. I must admit that all I am interested in, is a listing on rightmove. Anyone I know looking for a property looks on rightmove regularly. We quite like the idea of dealing directly with potential buyers too . I'll try to make regular updates on how we get on.