Yopa - online estate agents

Troughton

Hi all,
I am looking at options of online estate agents to sell my property in London. Even though I have seen one or two Purple Bricks signs in my area I am keen to avoid them based on feedback I have seen and received. I am instead looking at possibly using Yopa and was wondering whether anyone has recently had experience with them and whether they would recommend?
My intention is to use my own solicitors (not those provided by any agent) and I want to engage and show prospective buyers around (not have an agent do it).
Thank you! 

jazzyja

As a buyer I have, not as a seller though. 
As a buyer ive had nothing but postive from day 1. I have an agent I text/ring at any time and shes brilliant. Shes taught me alot and genuinely is just generally helpful in all aspects. She sent me some quotes for their surveyors and solicitors etc but never pressured or even persuaded me to use. Shes also very responsive between myself and the vendor. 

Pok3mon

The last house I sold was with purple bricks 6 years ago when it was very new. I feel we lost money as their advice was poor and told to accept a low offer. Same house sold 1 year later for 30k more and no improvements done.
Now I live in wales we decided to go with a local agent as they know the market and types of houses around here, we negotiated down to 1% and he has done a cracking job and got us 20k over asking and took all the calls done all the viewings and all the sanitising after visits, He also done a great job filtering the wheat from the chaff. He keeps in touch with everyone each week to make sure everything is moving along ok. It has cost us about £1500-2000 more but I think it was worth every penny! And I am up 18k. 
The online EAs have no real incentive to do anything above or beyond as they get money upfront they have already been paid.
Things may be different now but having done both I know who I will use now.

I also done the same this time for solicitors, Used online before very slow loads of posting and saved about £50 in the end. 
This time using local solicitors who know the area  and I can hand al the paper work in on way to work.

musehead

I found this website quite useful:

Compare Online Estate Agents - OnlineAgentPicker

Has lots of information, and also lesser-known online agents including ones that serve specific local areas. Do your research and look at reviews from several different sources!