jockney

Hi,We`ve recently sold our house using property broker on the net.Found it a great service and did`nt have to deal with poxy estate agents.Sorry there must be some good agents out there but Ive never met any.Property broker charged us £97 and advertised it on fish4homes,rightmove and a few others .They leave it on until you sell and no hidden extra`s,saved us around £3600 which is lots of aussie dollars and an awful lot of the amber nectar. jockney

pudnut

sounds good. Did you have plenty of people to veiw? and how long did it take to sell?

tinaj

Interesting to hear that you sold your house without an agent.
A few questions for you;

Did you get agents around first to value the house?
Did you know roughly what you should get for your property and did you get many viewings?

We are thinking of selling ourselves as we would have to pay around £6000 to sell our house. The dilemma is, we have a very expensive property 500k, do people look for this sort of price bracket on the net?

It is only worth it if you dont lose the agents fees by getting a lower offer price.

Any thoughts?

pudnut

Regarding expensive property.... It can take quite a while to sell houses in the upper price range, the average population don't have that amount to spend therefore you are not going to get hoards of people veiwing and fighting for it,whether you put it on with estate agents or the net. My Mother inlaw has spent the last 2 years trying to sell her 750k house, has gradually dropped the asking price in order to get a sale, is currently at 550k and still no sensible offers!!
It's a lovely house and not over priced, in fact currently under priced as she really wants to sell. But I do know that the upper priced houses sometimes take a very long time to sell.

Just something to bear in mind when you come to sell!!!

yafm

From several years in the Estate Agents business I would advise you MIL to not go to a local agent for her sale but to go for an agent that specialises in the higher range of houses. They all use the net and the better magazines. We used to deal with £1m houses several miles away from the offices but the price was the factor

Carrianne

I am glad to hear someone else has not used an estate agent, i was thinking of marketing my home myself, here in Scotland prices are no where near as high but we have made a substantial profit as we rennovated it. I was going to put up posters, have a selected few days open viewing.

Do you have the name of the property broker you used Jockney ?

Carrianne

jockney

Hi,www.propertybroker.co.uk is who we used,however they only operate in the southeast of england.I`m from gourock myself and cant imagine that nobodys providing the same service up there.However the scottish way of selling is different so not to sure on that score jockney

jockney

Hi,It took us 4 weeks to exept an offer and we let 6 people view the property.However we never told property broker that we exepted an offer and finished up getting more than 40 enquires. jockney

jockney

Yes we did have agents round to value the property and after researching myself decided they were pretty close.Added on 10 grand to their valuation and accepted 4 grand less than that,so made 6 grand over valuation and saved 3600 in fees.See last reply for viewings.All the agents use these sites so I would have a go even if the property is more expensive it should`nt matter.You can even use property broker at the same time as using an agent if you want see who sells first(Iwas told they can do this because they are not classed as an agent.I noticed on their site today their charges have gone up to £117 pound,still not a bad bet to win 6000.They also for a bit extra advertise in the property sections of the standard and mail on sunday.I forgot to mention earlier that they also take digital photo`s and provide a for sale board for the basic fee.hope this helps jockney

Carrianne

Thanks Jockney, I looked at them yesterday I have been trying to search for one up here to no avail ... sad now.