Sell your house at Tesco for £200!!

trolleymate

Hi Googler, believe it or not I was hoping for your continued input on this debate and look forward to your posts.
Hope thread picks up some interest from all types of estate agents or property marketers.
Would give us all a chance to make a more informative decision on house selling.
Have been surfing through some other threads in the forum and found a lot of important subjects ruined by some posters, this does not fullfill the reason for joining in these forums and I hope any agents who join in are not subjected to some of the abusive posts I have read recently.
Would be great to have a thread where all posts are made in a constructive and informative manner.
We may at least gain more of an understanding of the different options avaiable out there.

spinkles

Not posted before but in response to the isold.com stuff, the guy came round to value our house recently. he was very pleasant and I asked him loads of questions (having been an avid reader of posts in this forum). He seemed to speak plain English and didn't try to fox me with jargon.

There is an option to defer payment of fees til the end of the sale if you pay a modest sum up front depending on your level of marketing. The basic level advertised is £999 inc VAT and for an extra £50 you can defer til the end of your sale. No sale, you only lose the £50. There is no tie in period and they work on a multi agency basis (if I understood correctly - I asked if I would have to pay fees if I sold the house myself and he said only the money I had paid up front). It seems to me that the only major thing different is that an estate agent does not accompany viewers using isold although all viewers are vetted somehow before they come as part of the Suzy Lamplugh Trust. Cutting out the high street office seems to be where they are making savings at the moment but it is still really new (4 weeks old) so the levels of service may change when they have more properties on their books.

Hoping to have our house on the market in the next few weeks but have some local estate agents coming round to value our house to make as informed a decision as possible - watch this space!

googler

spinkles - I take it you're in Bristol, or close to it?

googler

slimgym - the relevance of your post to Tesco, and their sales proposition is..... what, exactly?

slimgym

Sorry, rambling about agents not doing viewings either. I've removed my post. Didn't realise it was such a controlling environment here!

trolleymate

Hi Spinkles, sounds good, hope all goes well with the sale of your house, please keep us updated with progress.
Looks like another step in the right direction for selling properties at a fair and transparent price.

trolleymate

googler wrote: »

slimgym - the relevance of your post to Tesco, and their sales proposition is..... what, exactly?

Hi Googler, please stop policing threads, you keep chasing members from putting views across.

trolleymate

slimgym wrote: »

Sorry, rambling about agents not doing viewings either. I've removed my post. Didn't realise it was such a controlling environment here!

Hi slymjym, sorry about Googler, please feel free to post as you are entitled to.

timmyt

trolleymate wrote: »

Hi slymjym, sorry about Googler, please feel free to post as you are entitled to.

Googler always does, just ignore. Old hat poster still with nothing to say

googler

timmyt wrote: »

Googler always does, just ignore. Old hat poster still with nothing to say

and what did you add to the discussion with this post?