Selling house without estate agent

no1gymbunny

If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys.

MissMotivation

Woby_Tide wrote:

but give so much more back.....


suggesting that you are cheaper than other countries isn't really an answer is it(unless you are suggesting the global housing market is identical?), more smacks of desperation that you can't provide a genuine answer.

Our current estate agency charged £345 upfront, why was the next cheapest agency a commision based one at £2500, 3 years ago it would have been £1800, have your costs risen that much(and the average agency would have been £3750 compared to £2550 3 years ago, their costs must have risen even more...)? Surely you are selling the same house using the same skills and same advertising mediums? Unless my agent doesn't have as nice a car as you?

In 3 years.....wages have risen, newspaper advertising has risen, board companies charge more, internet advertising costs more THEREFORE EA's fees rise to reflect this.

At the end of the day we arn't a charity! You wouldn't expect a solicitor/surveyor/removal company to earn a pittance why shouldn't EA's be allowed to earn a decent wage.

Interested in what you do for a living? Bet you arn't earning the same as you were 3 years ago!

My guess......someone has had a bitter experience with an agent and decided to tar us all with the same brush.

And as for the fact that your current agent charges £345 upfront.

1) what happens if they don't sell the property......they have earnt £345 for nothing when most EA's offer No Sale No Fee

2) I guess you are also the kind of person that shops in Kwiksave and not
M & S......generally in EA you get what you pay for......Good Luck

regularsaver1

i was walking by a house yesterday up for sale and it had a baord for the agents - an online agent , says costs £450 + vat

how can it vary so much

but hats off the the EA - they do, do a lot

MissMotivation

no1gymbunny wrote:

If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys.

Damn...you beat me to it lol

Woby_Tide

no1gymbunny wrote:

If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys.

evidently not, I just avoided expensive monkeys

regularsaver1

but you paid a fee upfront? why not no sale, no fee

no1gymbunny

Probably because the expensive monkeys are in M&S, not Kwiksave.

regularsaver1

haven't Kwiksave gone bust? lol

Woby_Tide

MissMotivation wrote:

In 3 years.....wages have risen, newspaper advertising has risen, board companies charge more, internet advertising costs more THEREFORE EA's fees rise to reflect this.

At the end of the day we arn't a charity! You wouldn't expect a solicitor/surveyor/removal company to earn a pittance why shouldn't EA's be allowed to earn a decent wage.

Interested in what you do for a living? Bet you arn't earning the same as you were 3 years ago!

My guess......someone has had a bitter experience with an agent and decided to tar us all with the same brush.

And as for the fact that your current agent charges £345 upfront.

1) what happens if they don't sell the property......they have earnt £345 for nothing when most EA's offer No Sale No Fee

2) I guess you are also the kind of person that shops in Kwiksave and not
M & S......generally in EA you get what you pay for......Good Luck

ok so still you refuse to answer the questions directly, have your costs risen by approx 50% in 3 years honestly? have your wages risen 50% in 3 years? mine haven't

and as I said, I've sold with an agent who charged me £345, my bitter experience would be if I'd just paid £3750 for exactly the same service, can you see the logic now. I've no gripes about the agencies I've used in the past, bar the fact that I now know more about their costs and the fact they don't change regardless of the underlying costs or revenues, someones making more money for no extra work and it's not the seller, your experience is no better than in previous years. Whilst they earn £345 if they don't sell whereas the other agency would get nothing fair enough, but how many houses don't agencies sell? and does that not indicate that therefore the agency is at fault, how many houses have you known never to sell, ever?

and we don't have Kwik Saves here....sorry, but if that';s the best you can come up to justify what you do then fair play

MissMotivation

regularsaver1 wrote:

haven't Kwiksave gone bust? lol

I wouldn't know.....i shop in M & S lol (joke)