Selling House Privately - advice and options

waterwatereverywhere

Hi,

We are considering trying to sell our house privately without an agent to save commission fees.

We are not in a hurry to sell and have been told it is a seller's market with few properties available in the area, so we think we may stand a chance. Also we are on a busy road so think with a board we could attract a lot of local interest.

Pls can anyone advise on the following:

1. Is there any "free" or cheap way to get our house advertised on the main property portals - Zoopla/Rightmove?

2. Is there a cheap way to get a for sale board printed ourselves and then just attach to a suitable post.

3. We'd like to put a website address on the board to put the property details onto - have never had a website - is there a free or cheap way to set up a basic website and to host it? Just have in mind somewhere people can click to to get property details and to email a form to request a viewing.

Any other advice/comments/pitfalls etc gratefully received!!

Thanks in advance.

googler

1. Not for free.

2. Find out who supplies the signs to your local EAs and ask them how much for a one-off?

3. There's little value in having the website printed on the board to generate interest, as anyone seeing the board will know the house is for sale. Having the website won't expand your 'reach' at all.

There's no way the website, even with strenuous search engine optimisation, will get you the traffic of Zoopla or RM. All a sale board will get you is interest from passing traffic, or perhaps the occasional mention from passing folk to someone they know. In short, you'll be virtually invisible to most of those who are looking for property in your area.

So, by the time you've paid for your board, put it up yourself, paid and built your website, SEO'd it, etc etc, wouldn't it just be easier to hire an agent, and then you'll know your property will be where people are actually looking?

paulsad

I used a local online only broker; at the time fees were £250 up front £750 on sale and to be honest they were brilliant for that amount they provided sign and a professional photographer plus all the rightmove blurb plus their own site as well as doing some of the viewings.
Thats the way I'd go again - to find one have a look around at signs up around you then do a trawl of the sites I'd defo just use a local one rather than one countrywide though.

Sarah-V

Have you considered someone like emoov?

They will do you photos and plans, so it's £400 but well spent! We have just viewed a house on with them that we found on rightmove.

Threebabes

We bought our house which was being sold privately. Its on an estate in an cul de sac. We drove around saw the homemade board up and rang and made an appointment to view. It was all straight forward.

AdrianC

googler wrote: »

3. There's little value in having the website printed on the board to generate interest, as anyone seeing the board will know the house is for sale. Having the website won't expand your 'reach' at all.

I'd disagree.
If somebody goes past, and sees the sign, they're far more likely to remember a catchy URL and look at the website than a mobile number or stop off and knock on the door.

Also, it _may_, with sufficient SEO, come up in a google for "House for sale <postcode/town>".

Having said that, the vendors of this house did a VERY nice website with catchy URL to "help the sale". I found it whilst googling for more information after we'd put our offer in...

There's no way the website, even with strenuous search engine optimisation, will get you the traffic of Zoopla or RM.

OP, print and frame this sentence...

Does Zoopla even matter? Isn't RM the only one that does?