Selling flat with same EA as neighbour

notsurewhereIstand

I want to put my flat on the market soon but would prefer a discrete sale, if possible.

My neighbour's flat is on the market because they've gone into old folks accommodation, it's a bit dated internally, my flat is much more up to date.

Is there much advantage in using the same EA, perhaps getting interest from the other flat's viewings who want something more up to date?

DannyboyMidlands

What do you mean by discrete sale?

notsurewhereIstand

Not putting it 'out there' on rightmove etc.

DannyboyMidlands

Why not? How will it sell if it isn't advertised?

notsurewhereIstand

Via the enquiries with my neighbour's flat, who want something more up to date, if I went with their EA.

jbainbridge

Indeed ... if you want to sell you need to 'put it out there'.

girl_withno_name

notsurewhereIstand wrote: »

Via the enquiries with my neighbour's flat, who want something more up to date, if I went with their EA.

That seems like a severely narrowed market to sell to... but it might work, depending on the EA since a couple we viewed with in fact seemed more interested in selling us other properties!

DannyboyMidlands

notsurewhereIstand wrote: »

Via the enquiries with my neighbour's flat, who want something more up to date, if I went with their EA.

It might work but I don't see the point in limiting your market like that.

notsurewhereIstand

jbainbridge wrote: »

..... if you want to sell you need to 'put it out there'.

Not necessarily.

googler

For any consumer product, the manufacturer spends massively on promoting their product. Coke, Pepsi, Aerial, Carlsberg, Dyson - pick a brand.

If they don't advertise their product, they're severely limiting their sales and their potential for sales. If Dyson had merely placed a few of their vacuum cleaners on the sales floor of a few Comet stores, and done no promotion, how many do you think they would have sold?

If Magners had launched their Cider with no TV advertising, no print advertising, and relied on people in the stores who were looking at Thorntons or Woodpecker seeing their product beside the established names, where do you think they'd be now? Do you think they'd have had any success at all?

You're similarly limiting your potential buyer base by not promoting your property, and hoping that the limited number who don't like the neighbour's house will like yours.

If someone looks on a web listing at your neighbour's, and doesn't like it enough to view it, they'll never know about yours.

If someone sees the neighbour's in the agent's window, they won't know about yours.

In essence - in order to sell at the best price, you need to get your property in all the most effective advertising locations. Forget all ideas about a 'discreet' sale, and for goodness' sake, learn how to spell it before you use it.

notsurewhereIstand

A flat isn't Coke googler, so your comparison is not valid.

B4 u critersize mi spelling's praps mayc shore uve 'ad ago at all the others on this website first.

This thread is about how agent's operate, perhaps just be a bit more objective in your posting.