Need to sell a house , any help?
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B16 FYS said:
996RS_Man said:
Anyone on here up on selling houses , need rid of one , i am green when it comes to this and need some help?
Thanks in advance
Paul
Paul,Thanks in advance
Paul
thought you were house/mortgage free!!!!
more to spend on pork
P
Estate agent - say you'll only put it on if they charge you either a set amount (offer 1% NO more) or a fixed fee. It depends on what the price is, but i just put my house on with another agent this morning, and made them agree to 1% on a house selling at around £115.
Not too bad i thought...
Not too bad i thought...
Yeah valid point. If you phone a few of them saying " X-agent said they'd sell it for a fixed price of £X" then they'll usually try to compete.
Remember that estate agents are having a terrible time at the moment, so the more houses they can get on their books the better for them. I've got mine on multi-agent, making them all agree to sell it for the same fee, which in some cases is less than half their normal fee.
I'm sure most would rather take you on their books at a lower fee than not having you at all.
The problem is that they wont market it as much in the newspapers and the like, but 90% of house sale enquiries come from their web advertising anyway so you should be OK...
If you dont want to go down that route, try things like E-Bay to generate interest, put a FOR SALE sign outside with your number on, and look at websites like 'right move'
Remember that estate agents are having a terrible time at the moment, so the more houses they can get on their books the better for them. I've got mine on multi-agent, making them all agree to sell it for the same fee, which in some cases is less than half their normal fee.
I'm sure most would rather take you on their books at a lower fee than not having you at all.
The problem is that they wont market it as much in the newspapers and the like, but 90% of house sale enquiries come from their web advertising anyway so you should be OK...
If you dont want to go down that route, try things like E-Bay to generate interest, put a FOR SALE sign outside with your number on, and look at websites like 'right move'
ol said:
Estate agent - say you'll only put it on if they charge you either a set amount (offer 1% NO more) or a fixed fee. It depends on what the price is, but i just put my house on with another agent this morning, and made them agree to 1% on a house selling at around £115.
Not too bad i thought...
not always the best tactic, agents work differently. find out how the office commission is divided - communal, individual...do the agents even get commission? do they employ saturday girls on the weekend or do the negs do shifts? do they have an accompanied viewer or to the negs do the viewings?Not too bad i thought...
this way you can work out how motivated the individual negs will be to sell your house. then you start to talk about fee. best advice is to multi it with 2 max 3 agents, over-exposure is a common complaint "why have I seen this house with andrew craig/pattinsons/your move also? they must be desperate to sell, bet they'll take a low offer" is what results.
the best setup is an office running individual commission with the negs doing their own viewings and also their own shifts on the weekend. for this you will pay extra but who really cares? would you jeopardise the right price for your car by not paying autotrader and only keeping it in admag?
couple of hundred either way means jack
other questions to ask:
does the valuer call out new instructions? how many applicants do they have per neg in your price range? do they show requirement to requirement? (bin them if not...! it'll be almost pointless) what are their qualification questions? how many viewings per neg are they tarageted? what is their vendor management regime?
I could go on..
ol said:
Remember that estate agents are having a terrible time at the moment, so the more houses they can get on their books the better for them. I've got mine on multi-agent, making them all agree to sell it for the same fee, which in some cases is less than half their normal fee.
I'm sure most would rather take you on their books at a lower fee than not having you at all.
The problem is that they wont market it as much in the newspapers and the like, but 90% of house sale enquiries come from their web advertising anyway so you should be OK...
If you dont want to go down that route, try things like E-Bay to generate interest, put a FOR SALE sign outside with your number on, and look at websites like 'right move'
as an agent having lots of properties sitting on your books in a market with low confidence is a sI'm sure most would rather take you on their books at a lower fee than not having you at all.
The problem is that they wont market it as much in the newspapers and the like, but 90% of house sale enquiries come from their web advertising anyway so you should be OK...
If you dont want to go down that route, try things like E-Bay to generate interest, put a FOR SALE sign outside with your number on, and look at websites like 'right move'
tter, paying for advertising etc and not being able to sell it due to a inaccurate market price is not what you want. if an agent thinks he can sell it he will acquiesce to demands for fee reduction but if he thinks the price is toppy and he does not detect realism in you regarding this they quite often will look at you and advise you to come back to him when so&so agent haven't sold it for you.
when there are plenty of properties coming to the market to sell, they won't need to be that choosy.
as with most things in life, either you close him or he closes you.. feel free to ask industry questions if you like..
(minimax - Mortgage Broker/Estate Agent)
minimax said:
ol said:
Remember that estate agents are having a terrible time at the moment, so the more houses they can get on their books the better for them. I've got mine on multi-agent, making them all agree to sell it for the same fee, which in some cases is less than half their normal fee.
I'm sure most would rather take you on their books at a lower fee than not having you at all.
The problem is that they wont market it as much in the newspapers and the like, but 90% of house sale enquiries come from their web advertising anyway so you should be OK...
If you dont want to go down that route, try things like E-Bay to generate interest, put a FOR SALE sign outside with your number on, and look at websites like 'right move'
as an agent having lots of properties sitting on your books in a market with low confidence is a sI'm sure most would rather take you on their books at a lower fee than not having you at all.
The problem is that they wont market it as much in the newspapers and the like, but 90% of house sale enquiries come from their web advertising anyway so you should be OK...
If you dont want to go down that route, try things like E-Bay to generate interest, put a FOR SALE sign outside with your number on, and look at websites like 'right move'
tter, paying for advertising etc and not being able to sell it due to a inaccurate market price is not what you want. if an agent thinks he can sell it he will acquiesce to demands for fee reduction but if he thinks the price is toppy and he does not detect realism in you regarding this they quite often will look at you and advise you to come back to him when so&so agent haven't sold it for you.
when there are plenty of properties coming to the market to sell, they won't need to be that choosy.
as with most things in life, either you close him or he closes you.. feel free to ask industry questions if you like..
(minimax - Mortgage Broker/Estate Agent)
I dont know if you remember sorting mine out for me a year or so ago when i had the Vectra and that horrible little 106 that looked like it was made by Halfords?
I recently bought a new house and went back to 'your mortgage team' who were very helpfull actually. We were chatting about you when i was sorting it out.
Have you still got the Elise?
ol said:
minimax said:
ol said:
Remember that estate agents are having a terrible time at the moment, so the more houses they can get on their books the better for them. I've got mine on multi-agent, making them all agree to sell it for the same fee, which in some cases is less than half their normal fee.
I'm sure most would rather take you on their books at a lower fee than not having you at all.
The problem is that they wont market it as much in the newspapers and the like, but 90% of house sale enquiries come from their web advertising anyway so you should be OK...
If you dont want to go down that route, try things like E-Bay to generate interest, put a FOR SALE sign outside with your number on, and look at websites like 'right move'
as an agent having lots of properties sitting on your books in a market with low confidence is a sI'm sure most would rather take you on their books at a lower fee than not having you at all.
The problem is that they wont market it as much in the newspapers and the like, but 90% of house sale enquiries come from their web advertising anyway so you should be OK...
If you dont want to go down that route, try things like E-Bay to generate interest, put a FOR SALE sign outside with your number on, and look at websites like 'right move'
tter, paying for advertising etc and not being able to sell it due to a inaccurate market price is not what you want. if an agent thinks he can sell it he will acquiesce to demands for fee reduction but if he thinks the price is toppy and he does not detect realism in you regarding this they quite often will look at you and advise you to come back to him when so&so agent haven't sold it for you.
when there are plenty of properties coming to the market to sell, they won't need to be that choosy.
as with most things in life, either you close him or he closes you.. feel free to ask industry questions if you like..
(minimax - Mortgage Broker/Estate Agent)
I dont know if you remember sorting mine out for me a year or so ago when i had the Vectra and that horrible little 106 that looked like it was made by Halfords?
I recently bought a new house and went back to 'your mortgage team' who were very helpfull actually. We were chatting about you when i was sorting it out.
Have you still got the Elise?
still got the Elise, just spent about 2k on it as haven't had time to use it for the last 6 months (i'm contracted for 68 hours per week minimum) and it's been sitting at a friends house in croydon rotting...
hoping to change the cambelt next week then it'll be back in the game properly!
how are things with you? glad YMT were good to you again, was it paul? he was my old gaffer, good chap
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