House Selling - Money Saving Tips

Visa_king

These tips are good for me, but what happens if they can't sell it I've been on the market for two years and with two agents?
I'd pay anything at the moment just to get rid of my house.

thecornflake

Just wanted to post a quick thanks for all the useful info people have posted in this thread.

I got my agent down from a flat 1.75% to 1.25 if the flat went for over 130k, or 1% if it went under that. And reduced their tie-in from 16 weeks to 0. Just accepted an offer below 130, so I've saved that .75% already.

Now for the nightmare that is conveyancing and moving (hopefully!).

matttwine

you could always try selling you house yourself! saves the commission

try Square Move https://www.squaremove.co.uk if you sign up and submit your house to their site it will automatically be listed on various other property sites including fish4, hotproperty etc... and you even get your own personalized post and sign to put outside your house with the FSBO Sign Kit they offer!!

hope its not to late for you, even still if you want to get more coverage of your house give them a try special promotion on this month as well


Best of Luck

ChuckleVision_2

Has anyone had any experience in selling their house theirselves? I'm thinking of sellign mine myself, and save the estate agents fees...

There isn't many houses in my area on squaremove though.

emma_b_4

how much approx does it cost to sell your home? or is that a silly how long is a piece of string question???"!!
we are considering moving, have got valuations booked for friday.
we would be selling a 2bed terrace for approx £100,000 (by my guesstimate!)

and moving to a house approx £160,000

this is our first home we have no idea about buying selling other than when we were 1st time buyers...

sainthalo

chivers1977 wrote:

On the flipside, me and at least one other MSEr have sold within a week of the pictures going online with Housenetwork saving £2-3 thousand between us in EA fees. As our local agents have never shown us around properties, preferring to get the vendor to do the viewings, I would never use them again. My parents are selling their property in April and will be using Housenetwork following my success! The pictures on their site really are great and you can do your own "non estate agent" blurb.

I suspect this is nothing to with housenetwork and more to do with rightmove which appears to be the best property site. If anyone knows the cheapest way to get an entry onto rightmove i think that will be the cheapest way to sell your house nowadays followed up with a local newspaper ad with picture.

lynzpower

sainthalo wrote:

I suspect this is nothing to with housenetwork and more to do with rightmove which appears to be the best property site. If anyone knows the cheapest way to get an entry onto rightmove i think that will be the cheapest way to sell your house nowadays followed up with a local newspaper ad with picture.

I think yes, thats part of it.

Im the other person chivers means i think

Rightmove only accept estate agents not private sellers. I bet they are the cheapest. 500inc vat.

https://www.housenetwork.co.uk

look at the photos, they are great, IMHO

sainthalo

£500 to someone to advertise on the rightmove website (this as far as i see is the biggest asset they are offering) is too much.

Rightmove is owned by 3 leading estate agents with a vested interest in preventing self sellers onto the website.

I dont know how much rightmove charge to enter a listing but its probably tens of pounds not hundreds.

Someone should set up an online agency whereby the customer does as much of the work themselves including pictures etc so that we could access rightmove for £100-200.

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Once the pre-sale homebuyer reports system is in place in mid 2007, if the information is all taken from that then there is very unlikely any property misdescription which seems to be rightmoves main method of enforcing this estate agent only protectionist rule.

lynzpower

well the thing is sainthalo rightmove only accept listings from estate agents.



you might be able to find estate agents who will charge you less than that- who also use rightmove

But I coudnt find any anywhere

Malcolm_Davis

lynzpower wrote:

well the thing is sainthalo rightmove only accept listings from estate agents.



you might be able to find estate agents who will charge you less than that- who also use rightmove

But I coudnt find any anywhere

I am selling my house, and the estate agent said after she had put the photos in the local paper, yeah but we put your property on the internet?
Anyone looking to move to an area from outside the area is likely to have subscribed to the local paper. So are they really that much more effective?