Recommend me an online Estate Agent

freddieD

I have decided to give a try to one of those online estate agents to sell my house. I will appreciate all recommendations of online estate agents that people here have used, especially if they have managed to sell their property with one of these or even if the EA proved they did their best to sell it.

I do no not mean the sites where you can sell your property yourself, I know them. I mean the ones that do operate like an EA, doing a marketing exercise for your property. I guess their location is not important as, by definition they do it all online.

Thanks

geoffky

the only one i know is property ladder,,,

googler

Search this forum for housenetwork, and for every poster who says they're pleased with their service, and the few who seem to have sold with them, there seems to be an equal and opposite poster who says they're a waste of time.

Why do you specifically want an online EA? Where are you selling?

freddieD

googler wrote: »

Search this forum for housenetwork, and for every poster who says they're pleased with their service, and the few who seem to have sold with them, there seems to be an equal and opposite poster who says they're a waste of time.

Why do you specifically want an online EA? Where are you selling?

I am selling in the country, I want add an online agent (as I said, give it a try) to the local EA.

I think that probably there are people who do not like Housenetwork because they charge an upfront fee and that is very risky. If they did not sell their house in the end people have good reason not to be happy. I really do not see why there are people who take this risk (OK, it's wanting to believe tha they are going to save a lot of money on conventional EA's fees). Not even well established agents charge a fee upfront.

Doozergirl

House Network do what they say on the tin.

googler has a vested interest and has never sold a property with an internet agent to ever speak of the experience. Quite un-MSE really. I've sold four with no issue.

They take a fee upfront to make the ultimate fee cheaper. If you are motivated to sell, have a sensible asking price and are prepared to take responsibilty for the quality of your own listing and don't expect your hand holding then the upfront fee is more than fair. In fact, you often don't get any more from a high street agent for a higher fee.

The upfront fee is much cheaper than the final fee of a hig stret agent who has to pay the marketing costs of every lightweight, kite-flying vendor who decides not to sell their house, or has to have two or three years of marketing paid for on their behalf.

I'd rather pay my own bill upfront than mine and someone elses. I think all agents have their place - I won't use HN for high value properties only because I think people expect a valued local agent, but for a regular house, I've been happy.

new_home_owner_3

Ive had experiance of housesimple and housenetwork, they bother offer the same apart from housesimple offers a no fee up front option, housenetwork changed their terms, when i went with them and you also had to pay a renewal fee after so many weeks.

I also had problems with them accepting my hip pack so i went with housesimple and they was very good.

I also tried wow property but they wasnt very good at all.

http://www.housesimple.co.uk/selling-a-property/estate-agent-fee-options

new_home_owner_3

housenetwork will market your house for 183 days and then theres a renewal fee of 99 pound plus vat to continue marketing again.

so if they dont sell within 6 months they charge you again, for that reason alone i would never use them, why would they want to sell and what insentive would they have, they have took a upfront fee and then they charge you again every 6 months, thats sounds great, great for housenetwork if they dont sell your house.

take a look heref top right of their website.

http://www.housenetwork.co.uk/faq.asp

Doozergirl

new_home_owner wrote: »

housenetwork will market your house for 183 days and then theres a renewal fee of 99 pound plus vat to continue marketing again.

so if they dont sell within 6 months they charge you again, for that reason alone i would never use them, why would they want to sell and what insentive would they have, they have took a upfront fee and then they charge you again every 6 months, thats sounds great, great for housenetwork if they dont sell your house.

take a look heref top right of their website.

http://www.housenetwork.co.uk/faq.asp

It has never taken me six months to sell a house.

Wouldn't it actually be fair that if you took up six months of marketing that agents charged you proportionately for the services you use than charge you for other people?

I've seen people on HN up their asking price into the millions so that instead of officially withdraw it from the market they could take advantage again by dropping the price back, at their leisure, to something that people would consider. Abuse the system and everyone ends up paying for it? That's exactlywhat we pay for in the higher fees on the high street.

I've not used anoter internet agent but I would still rather pay for the services I use than pay the same % of a sale as someone who sticks their house on for too much money and then changes their mind after two years on the market. They get their marketing for free.

wodgerdodger

new_home_owner wrote: »

housenetwork will market your house for 183 days and then theres a renewal fee of 99 pound plus vat to continue marketing again.

so if they dont sell within 6 months they charge you again, for that reason alone i would never use them, why would they want to sell and what insentive would they have, they have took a upfront fee and then they charge you again every 6 months, thats sounds great, great for housenetwork if they dont sell your house.

take a look heref top right of their website.

http://www.housenetwork.co.uk/faq.asp

For accuracy's sake on this same page it does show that a current offer they are running if you choose Otion 1 then you will in fact get 12 months marketing as against 6 on their other options.

googler

freddieD wrote: »

I think that probably there are people who do not like Housenetwork because they charge an upfront fee ...

I think from the other threads there are a few people who take issue with the customer service levels..... but you'd need to read the threads

googler

Doozergirl wrote: »

House Network do what they say on the tin.

googler has a vested interest and has never sold a property with an internet agent to ever speak of the experience.

I didn't claim to have sold any, merely directed the OP to threads which he didn't seem to be aware of.

What 'vested interest' ???