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Should I sell my house online or pay the estate agent?

Thursday, September 11th, 2008

Okay so I want to sell my house but what is the best way of going about it?

A normal way to sell my house would be to talk to an Estate agent and have them to advertise my property. The package normally includes an advert in the areas paper, a picture in the window of the estate agents shop, a billboard and an estate agent to show the prospective buyer about your house for sale, oh! I almost forgot about a large chunk of commission off the money you would have got from the sale of your home.

An alternative of course is to get in touch with a expert business online and get them to place all of your property information and specs, including pictures to a huge market for a set price and still have a billboard out in your front garden.

So when I decided to sell my house I used the an online site to do the promotion for me this allowed me to have a lot more control and really know that the amount I was paying out meant something rather than going to pay somebody else?s wages. I cant remember the specific amount but I believe that estate agents fees are something like 2 % which is several thousand pounds rather than around 100 pounds for a professional service without the cost. It also means that you can update you information as and when you like and if you decide to change the value of your property you can change it when you will.

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Home direct loans and the present state of the home market.

Monday, September 8th, 2008

With big building firms going out of business and the state of the housing market appearing worse and worse. The market doesn?t look good. People I know keep on saying I want to ? sell my house? but are not sure whether to, due to poor equity. Personally I would like the opportunity to get my foot on housing market in the start. The new incentives that have been put onto the market aren?t really flexible enough to entice me into buying a home, with the only homes that you can buy being new builds which frankly a lot of the time look like little boxes with very little space, is this just another attempt for the government to reach target. The fundamentals are developers generally want to knock out as many buildings as fast as they can for the least amount of money on the least amount of space. Individuals need an area that they are investing their money into for their own benefit, somewhere they aren?t over looked and where they feel they can get out into their garden into their own space. The stamp duty lifting to ?175,000 is something that should have been sorted out a long time ago rather than the appeasement policy for the little people it appears to be, that is only going to last for a short period of time. Most people are unable to save for a mortgage because they are don?t have the spare funds and although we get studies that the average wage is a certain amount it has no relation to the low amount most of us earn.

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