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Is it definitely the price? House not moving?
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this is very true. i had my house on the market with a little local agent for 2 years and nothing! house down the road went up with knight frank and sold in 4 months for £50000 more, and it was smaller and a semi!Doozergirl wrote:In that price range, I wouldn't hesiatate in getting Knight Frank in on the case. You stretch the marketing boundaries much wider.
Also, if you really need to get over the SD threshold I would actually go higher with your asking!
Value gets a little more subjective as value increases, and of course it depends on presentation and you need a really decent, sales focussed agent. And they should also have confidence in that value.
We managed to get Knight Frank to 1.35% + VAT, but you do need to pay for brochures, floorplans, photos and advertising on top but you get a clear breakdown before you go ahead; we didn't need brochures in the end as they sold it on the second viewing. The second time they've done that for our family
The last house they sold for us was a 6 bed Victorian Semi
The photographs were just spetacular as they're taken professionally and they spend quite a while in the house. We still have the DVD!
Lesson of the day is not to pay just over SD threshold for a house, especially if you don't plan to stay long, but it's too late for you0
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