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anyone recommend a reasonably priced estate agent?
surfsister
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hi
thinking of moving and looking for a good but cheapish estate agent. any recommendations? also is 1.5% a good fee to pay to sell?
thinking of moving and looking for a good but cheapish estate agent. any recommendations? also is 1.5% a good fee to pay to sell?
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Fees can depend on where you live.
In glasgow our local estate agent all charge fees 1%, but I talked them down to 0.8%, however decided on an online agent.0 -
Try Tepilo or another online estate agent. Depending where you are and how much your house is worth it will save you thousands. Sure in a buyers market it might be worth an estate agent trying to sell it for you but in a sellers market most houses sell themselves.0
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so is it a buyers or sellers market?
someone i spoke to said interest rates will drop sorry RISE within 3 months and so will house prices.
thanks for replies guys!0 -
surfsister wrote: »so is it a buyers or sellers market?
someone i spoke to said interest rates will drop within 3 months and so will house prices.
thanks for replies guys!
Mmmmmm.... Where we are (Solihull) it seems to be favouring the seller.0 -
surfsister wrote: »so is it a buyers or sellers market?
Depends on where you are.surfsister wrote: »someone i spoke to said interest rates will drop within 3 months and so will house prices.
Interest rates are at all-time lows and the only way is up; they are forecast to rise around 1% a year over the next 5 years.
I would expect house prices to drop as the cost of borrowing increases.0 -
of course I meant rise not drop! someone who works in a bank in London told me that within 2 to 4 months they'll have to go up as being held down too long.
So think it's time to sell now whilst prices are OK0 -
http://www.sellahouseonline.co.uk/
Fantastic communication throughout. Some people are sceptical about onsite estate agents but these guy so far have been excellent.
Only £399 all in. Saved me paying £1600 odd.
Added on rightmove, zoopla etc within 5 days, sold within another 2.0 -
Looked at an online agent - glad I didn't use them would have cost me 10k more!!0
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Best to talk to them and :money: ask for their best rate Including VAT it can make such a difference if at the end of the day VAT on top :beer:There are more questions than answers :shhh: :silenced:WARNING ! May go silent for unfriendly repliesPlease excuse me Spell it MOST times
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We used 1% or less as they gave a fixed price! didn't realise we were only going to get 1% of the service though or we would happily have paid a bit more to a different agent0
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