Estate Agent Typical Fees

agile83

evening all,

Ive read on this site on several posts that you should try to get Estate agents down to 1% fees and ideally no lock in period when selling your home. so far ive had quotes from Connells of £3000 flat fee and and a quotes for £2500 from Taylors estate agents. Both companies stated they dont do a percentage fee and that most estate agents just do flat fees as well. Am i just unlucky and should i try other estate agents or are percentages a thing of the past? My flat is only worth 100k and i dont want to pay £3000 when selling it. I am in Worcestershire if this helps?

cheers

vectistim

Try a real local agent rather than a national chain.
AIUI Taylors is part of Countrywide, Connells is part of the Skipton.

ACG

It depends how much competition there is in your local area.
Plenty of competition means a fair few to have a try at, not much means your probably stuck with whoever is around.

opinions4u

Local markets have their own rates.

But paying 1% to an agent who does nothing more than stick a leaflet in the window might be a wasted effort compared to paying 3% to an agent who busts a gut to market everywhere possible and finds a buyer within 10% of asking price 6 weeks later.

Dave_Ham

The Connells in Worcester are severely hard work to deal with. They top my hardest Agents to deal with 2012 so far...

I am sure this has been debated to death, but there is only so many pictures you can take of a £100k flat. I make you right to save your money and I would pay £200-£300 and pay upfront an online agent to advertise on Rightmove et al.

All the best

BEAR

Dave_Ham wrote: »

The Connells in Worcester are severely hard work to deal with. They top my hardest Agents to deal with 2012 so far...

I am sure this has been debated to death, but there is only so many pictures you can take of a £100k flat. I make you right to save your money and I would pay £200-£300 and pay upfront an online agent to advertise on Rightmove et al.

All the best

tried connells last year and was very unimpressed with their service so changed to shelton & lines who were excellent. Saw a house I wanted to view a few months later with connells as agents took 4 days to get an appointment to view. they kept saying they would ring back with a time, then said vendors could not be contacted. When I finally did get to view they had only rung the vendors that morning. Vendors quickly changed agents!!