House being valued today

Keli

I want floor plans on rightmove as I always look for them as a buyer myself silly but true

cloud12321

hope this goes well for you and you get the price you need

hazyjo

Wouldn't want to pay upfront - what if they don't sell? What if you change your mind? Will they be motivated to sell something if they don't need to do so for their fee?

Jx

mummyroysof3

That's what we are thinking. He does a pay on completion option but it will cost more than upfront.

Slinky

mummyroysof3 wrote: »

That's what we are thinking. He does a pay on completion option but it will cost more than upfront.

How does his price compare with the other one? If you do want to use him, I'd try and negotiate for the payment up front rate as being the payment on completion one.

We had an exclusive deal with an agent at a set rate, they sold the house, it fell through, we then agreed with them the same rate for multi agency and put it up with another agent also. The second agent was also happy to accept the same rate since they'd not got a crack at selling a decent property they didn't have on their books before.

In the event, the original agent found our successful buyer.

Terms can be negotiable if you ask.

katejo

Have you looked at the adverts for other properties to see how well they are presented? Features which put me off include using price ranges (like 260-290K) and refusing to give the name of the road where the property is. One of my local agents only gives the town. I once asked them why. The agent said "because we want you to come in and discuss the property with us". However this puts me off completely. I can't shortlist properties for viewing without knowing where they are.

mummyroysof3

No issues like that.

harpoboy

Offers In Excess Of - that is my personal bugbear.

moneyistooshorttomention

Keli wrote: »

I want floor plans on rightmove as I always look for them as a buyer myself silly but true

Not in the slightest bit "silly".

I have ensured that there are some very good floorplans of my place - because I personally want them for places I am looking at and get very frustrated if they aren't up to much or don't even exist.

It's surprising how many places leave me wondering whether I could or couldn't knock down walls/generally rejig the internal arrangements to suit me/some people better.

On my own floorplans it's possible to instantly see what walls could be put down/raised up if someone wanted a different arrangement.

With some houses it's not even possible for me to tell at all whether they would actually "work" because of the lack of floorplans and my distinct suspicion seems to have been confirmed that sometimes vendors and/or EAs deliberately don't provide floorplans in order to get "fake viewers" in the door (ie all the people who don't know whether a place would "work" for them or no because of those missing floorplans):cool:;)
- but then I have just been commended by an EA in area-I-am-moving-to for my "logical" approach to housebuying/selling, so maybe I'm a bit unusual and most people just wander in vaguely waiting to see if they "love" the place...

moneyistooshorttomention

katejo wrote: »

Have you looked at the adverts for other properties to see how well they are presented? Features which put me off include using price ranges (like 260-290K) and refusing to give the name of the road where the property is. One of my local agents only gives the town. I once asked them why. The agent said "because we want you to come in and discuss the property with us". However this puts me off completely. I can't shortlist properties for viewing without knowing where they are.

You want to try the local EA we have here (a member of that Countrywide chain....ahem...) that often doesn't put the room sizes up on their website and, when they do, its in metric measurements (rather than feet and inches). Deliberate "confusion" I would say - so that people get conned into looking at properties that are just too small for them...in the hope that they will "fall in love" with them.


......and then there's the ones who try and hide salient facts about properties on their book and get more than a little taken aback when a would-be buyer tells them "Ah yes...I would say that property probably has x wrong with it...." just from the EA online details....