House Selling - Money Saving Tips

Zannie

I am interested in your comment that all fees are negotiable. I tried this with estate agents when selling my house but no one would budge.
I am currently on my second estate agent and thinking about changing to a third. they both over valued the house promised the moon and after 11 months the house is emply and not sold and I am feeling quite desperate. Did the house doctor neutrals etc but that didnt get buyers through the door. I am now very disillusioned with the second agent and feel that all estate agents in this area are lazy and uninterested. I feel that somewhere must be a good one but have not a clue how to find one especially as I live a long way away now. Their excuse is that the market is poor but surely houses do sell (dont they?).Don't know where to go from here so all advice really welcome.

Zannie

I had a North facing back to Back (ie back of house ajoins house behind) sold the house on a baking hot day... pointed out how lovely and cool it was when everyone else was sweltering.

russthemink

Since putting my flat up for sale last week a friend of mine was telling me that in wh smiths, there are DIY conveyancing kits. I have seen the DIY will kits and the tenancy agreements that are on the shelf but I have never seen the conveyencing one. Has anybody out there seen or used one of these kits and if so what was the experience like?

silvercar

cheapskate, I had that spiel, it turned out to be true, they gave ma an asking price offer within 24 hours!

kitaj & russthemink, the problem with doing your own conveyancing is getting the mortgage company to issue you with the funds - they won't do it.

zannie, maybe your answer is to lower the price and go multi-egency. it may cost you a bit more but at least the place will be sold.

pennies2pounds_3

Hi all - great thread ! . I am just about to take the plunge and sell my home to buy something much bigger. I have found a good deal (I think ) on a mortgage with free conveyancing. Does the free conveyancing apply to just the buying ? selling or both ? Thanks in advance.

quietheart

We've just seen an estate agent we're happy with who is already asking 1%, should we try and get lower or would we be pushing our luck?!

jonnydoe

Hi all

Has anyone tried the diy sell your home websites (littlehouse company etc..) or is this a taboo subject? (Dare I step on estate agents toes? lol)

I'd rather use these and cut out the estate agents altogether saving a small fortune paying someone to do very little. Littlehouse company charge £135 to advertise any property on a fair few websites (except rightmove funnily enough affiliated with estate agegnts).

It would be nice to hear any success stories as I am very interested in saving myself thousands of pounds I'm sure you'd agree.. (unless you are an estate agent lol)

Any thoughts?

Thanks

JD

jonnydoe

rovers wrote:

We've just seen an estate agent we're happy with who is already asking 1%, should we try and get lower or would we be pushing our luck?!

OK if you have an average priced house at £150k that's £1500 fees!!, try saving yourself almost £1400 at http://www.thelittlehousecompany.co.uk/sellers.htm
hope this helps, please thank me if it does

JD

waterlilyann

Thanks to Marcus and his fab tips, I've managed to save £1384.50 on estate agents fees!! We put our house on the market yesterday and before reading this I never knew that fees were negotiable! I managed to knock my chosen agent down from 2.25% to 1.5%!!!! Poor guy didn't know what hit him! Thanks to all and their tips - that money will pay to redecorate the new house!

klaatu

amon wrote:

came across

You "came across" it? That's the web site where it says "Amon-Ra webdesign"? And your username is Amon? Hmmm.

I hate spammers. Particularly deceitful spammers.

"Posting links for personal gain is strictly prohibited, except in the 'referrers' section and any connection to a company being discussed must be revealed."

Steve