Trying to Sell - Express Estate Agency? Advice please

Leafy33

originally asking for sellers using national estate agegncy 0 Express Estate Agency - any experiences please?

Jimbo1976

Have never heard of Express Estate Agency not sure if they are just local to you.

Personally I would do 3 bits of research

1) Spend an hour or so wandering round your neighbourhood counting for sale signs, take a special note of "sold" or "sale agreed" signs

2) Go to one of the property portals and do the same online search of properties for sale within 1/4 mile of your home. Make sure you include the "Include Under Offer, Sold STC..." properties.

3) Look at the same property portal to check which properties have sold in your area and for what price. Sometimes you can see which agency was marketing them.

Compare your lists and you should have a good idea of a local agents who actually sells property in your area.

Then agree a price with them based on what they think they can sell your property for ie £145k (or less)

Fire_Fox

Welcome! Research land registry sold prices for your block and area to make you own assessment of the true value. Sorry to say but what you need to clear your mortgage is irrelevant to the value. Whatever agent you use you need to be on Rightmove, are you/ will you be?

Have you decluttered, spring cleaned, lightened and neutralised the decor, finished all those niggly DIY jobs? Is your long lease more than 80 years? Are your agents doing floor plans? If you wish to post your current Rightmove link we can make constructive criticism on the listing and presentation.

pinkcheshirecat

Hi, thought I would give a perspective as a buyer. We wanted to view a house through them. No dimensions are available, so no idea how big house actually is, pictures were dreadful. In spite of this, we still arranged a viewing, the person they had arranged to do the viewing(owner was away) didn't turn up. They then called once 3 or 4 days later and left a message on the answerphone asking for feedback. We did not return their call, we haven't heard from them since. 4 months later, house still for sale.

Leafy33

Hi Firefox,
I might be biased (probably am) but I think my property is presented pretty well. I tried to add a link but the site won't let me as I'm a newbie, soyou will have to take my word for it! Agents coming round to value it have said it is like a show house and it would be a dream to sell - sadly not yet managed to get a sale!

I know the mortgage is irrelevant to the value - that was there more for the fact of being clear about what I need to achieve (otherwise there is no point selling).

I've done my homework and know that some flats have sold over £150k but not many have sold in my development - many were bought by buy to let investors.

Jimbo - thanks for your advice, I have been so focused on the other flats in my development that I haven't searched beyond flats but it is a good suggestion to see what agents are selling (regardless of type of property.

thanks,
L

Fire_Fox

Add your postcode, we can find the flat on Rightmove from that. Then we can be nosy, ha ha!

googler

Leafy33 wrote: »

I tried to add a link but the site won't let me as I'm a newbie

Copy the URL from your RM listing, paste it into a reply here, but don't highlight it as a link, and insert a space or two into the first part of the www so that the forum software won't recognise it as a link
w w w.anysite.co.uk for instance.

richardw

Is this one http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-39717713.html similar to yours? Looks good, will they get £140k for it?
Why is yours 'worth' £5k more?

Leafy33

richard,

that one is beside a busy road, mine is tucked away at the back beside the canal and also bigger - hence more desireable, although not neccessarily worth more perhaps?

googler

richardw wrote: »

Is this one http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-39717713.html similar to yours? Looks good, will they get £140k for it?
Why is yours 'worth' £5k more?

Well, from the floorplans, I'd say the OP's is far larger. I would calculate exactly by how much, but the OP's agents have only put up imperial measurements, not metric....

Cisco001

I don't know your area at all. So within the flats in your area, there are other two bed asking price for £130k. Yours don't particular attractive.
And within the same development, the other two is £155k, but yours at £157k. Although yours may be bigger or with better lay out. But if viewer not come through the door, no point.
Looking at your photo.
I am not sure the point for the front door. You would better not showing that as it make the entrance feel so narrow.
Lounge - Your lounge should be big enough. but the way you putting the sofa and dinner table make it feel so small. I would suggest you put the two seater against the wall and temporary remove the white arm chair to somewhere else.
Balcony - IMO, Remove the photo with table and chair. You've got nice view, but that photo just show how small the balcony is .