Posts Tagged ‘Homestaging’

A quality way i found to sell my house online.

Tuesday, August 19th, 2008

If you decide to sell your home online or buy online it is worth considering the following tips. With a few of the more user responsive sites you are able to position the particulars of your private home sale straight onto the page that your property is being shown this means that if you are a bit of a night owl or work through out the day you are able to enter your particulars as and when you feel like it rather than having to fit in with the providers schedule. This ensures that you can edit your information at any time be it sizes, descriptions or more decisively the price of your property. Normally there is some sort of waver stating that the information is all provided by the client and wont necessarily hold the complete particulars.

When you are measuring up, make sure you give clear descripions of what measurement you are providing, from a purchasers point of view it is always worth querying anything you are unsure of and most private sellers are more than pleased to answer any questions. The website that a property is being shown on will not have carried out a appraisal on the property and it will normally be upto the purchaser to have a surveyors report done on the property before exchanging contracts. Always use a certified contractor to check the appliances and equipment in a property, this will allow you to discuss price if something is wrong. As a seller it is worth having any service information available to enable you to barter for a better price. Make sure you employ a solicitor to look into all legal issues relating to the property (e.g. title, tenure, planning permission etc) as these are specialist issues that will not be looked at by websites. A solicitor also agrees with the seller what things (e.g. carpets, curtains, fixtures & fittings, sheds etc) will or will not be built into the sale.
In other words, you must make sure for yourself all information before acting on it, in particular the current asking price, sizes of rooms, ownership, freehold, extent of refurbishments and any issues of specific consequence to you.

Sell your house without commission and do it without estate agents.

Tuesday, August 19th, 2008

Selling and buying a house is a emotional decision. Selling your own house can be very rewarding, exciting, and lots of fun. In this day and age of computers and ultra fast information its only right that the power is coming back into our own hands allowing us to take out the middle man and keep the profits from our hard earned investment, and its a lot less work than you might think. Estate agents often ask for a commission somewhere in the range of 6% of the overal cost, that can quickly amount to ?20,000 to ?30,000 on the completion of a nice home. When a property is sold, as in, house for sale by owner, you can often barter a lower price because there are no estate agent commissions to be paid from the sale.

Homeowners are starting to realize that they have the power to sell their own property and keep more money in their hands. When thinking about selling your own property you have to ask yourself some focused questions, and not get caught up, emotionally with the home you have lived in for a period of your life.

Looking at your own home from a buyers perspective isn?t always easy but think about going to look at other properties and what you would expect. Remove clutter from rooms, paint the walls a neutral colour and clean the house to a showroom finish, I know this takes a bit of effort on your part but the benefits can be the difference between your house sitting on the market or it being snapped up as soon as it appears.

I feel we have become a bit lax in our quest for convenience we seem to willingly give away a years salary to somebody that has just turned up at your house walked around it, taken a few photographs and measurements and then gone back and sat in an office and posted up a few details in their window, the local paper and internet. All of this you can do yourself in a weekend. ?20,000 or a couple of days work????? I know which option I prefer, are you aware that you can do it on your own behalf, just search the web and make an informed decision. By using search phrases such as Sell my flat, Sell my house and sell my house online you can discover excellent resources to sell your house, for sale by owner.

———-