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On 08/11/16 20:43, James Wilkinson Sword wrote:
On Tue, 08 Nov 2016 19:14:09 -0000, Mr Pounder Esquire
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Murmansk wrote:
My house is in an area where they sell really easily so I'm
thinking
of using

https://www.visum.co.uk/Pricing/Sales

All I want is for my house to appear on Rightmove and this seems
the
cheapest way to achieve that - once I've found interested buyers
I
can do the rest myself.

A bloke about a mile away from me tried something similar.
Nothing happened.

I've seen houses for sale (in decent areas) with just a mobile
number
on
a home made sign. Not sure where they advertised, but they sold
as
quick as any estate agent ones.


Apart from exposure and showing people around (the latter is
eminently
DIYable), Estate Agents off nothing else of value.

And the security side of the process (checks, surveys etc) are
handled
by others and would be done just the same for a non agent advert -
so
really, if you can get the eyeballs on your house and have the time
to
show people around and answer the phone, there's no disadvantage.

Depends how easy and cheap it is to advertise on the main websites.
I
assume the estate agents have discounts.

But that is a lot less than their fee.

Anyway, what does an estate agent charge nowadays?

Quite a lot.

It might not be worth the bother of avoiding them.

Don't believe that.

I'm actually watching someone doing it using facebook currently.
Been having open days on most saturdays for quite a while now.
Not clear what the current tenants think of that, they were away
when I had a look myself. The price isnt that different to what other
similar places have sold for but it looks like it might well take
rather
longer to sell than is usual. But most sold by agents are sold by
auction here currently, including the one I bought recently.

Just watched one of my neighbour's who died of grog/diabetes
house sold by an agent. Very little promotion at all, one open
house, usual thing here, with an auction scheduled, Then a sold
sign a week or so before the auction. For some reason the price
still isnt avail on the web site that usually lists that. Havent
actually
spoken to the new owner yet, he does show up a bit for a few
hours but hasn't moved in yet for some reason.

Auction isn't common here, and I've seen a lot of houses with an
estate
agent sign in the garden for over a year.

Sure, but your area is hardly the hottest real estate market.

They claim there's a housing shortage.

Not in your area they don't.

They do.

Funny how houses sit empty.

Because few want to live there.

Housing shortage means no houses,

There clearly are houses there when they are for sale for a year.

people have to live somewhere.

But can rent while looking for a house to buy etc.