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| Reuters reports
that a survey conducted by Alliance & Leicester
has found that private home-sellers using websites
to market their properties have sold their homes
in an average of less than two months while those
using the more conventional estate agency route
were taking over three months. |
| 8%
of the 2,384 people interviewed said they had used
Private Property Sales sites. (This is up from the
commonly accepted figure of 5% last year.) A similar
proportion had simply used word-of-mouth. Of the
rest, 5% had advertised in a local paper, 4% had
made their own “for sale” board and
1% had even used auction sites like eBay. |
| A spokesperson
for A&L said “Using an Estate Agent to sell
your home is generally viewed as part and parcel
of the moving process, but the research suggests
that DIY methods , such as using the Internet to
sell a home are becoming more popular.” (FSBO
2007) |
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you not only save money, you also sell faster privately.
Not a bad combination! |
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| First
off, lets make a few things perfectly clear about
selling property privately: |
1. Yes it can be done!
2. It is not terribly difficult!
3. Using an Estate Agent wont guarantee you''ll sell
your house for more! |
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lot of people feel strongly that traditional Estate
Agents don''t deserve the fees they charge - Rightly
so! Property prices have risen dramatically over
the last decade. As fees are based on the percentage
of your property''s value, Estate Agents have been
making a killing (over £4 billion last year).
Are they working any harder for their money? Are
they providing you with a better service?
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| Did you know that a survey
conducted by Alliance & Leicester found that private
home-sellers using websites to market their properties
have sold their homes in an average of less than
two months while those using the more conventional
estate agency route were taking over three months!
So, its official, selling though private sites,
like Derbyshire-Properties.com
is FASTER than selling though an estate agent! |
| As
many people have realised, to sell property privately
all you need are: |
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1. Common Sense
2. Decent organisational Skills
3. The desire to save a considerable sum of money
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| Figures from the Office of
Fair Trading show that 1 in 10 homeowners now attempt
to sell property privately. The OFT interviewed
a sample of these private sellers and their findings
were dramatic: 91% reported the
whole process ran extremely smoothly. Most said
they would do it again. |
| Compare that to the findings
of a recent Which?
report that stated: 50% of sellers who used Estate
Agents were dissatisfied with the service they recieved. |
| There is even a recent study
by the ''Interactive in Media Retail Group'', IMRG
(the global e-retailing industry body) looking at
the rise in popularity of selling a house privately.
They forecast that by 2010 nearly half (that''s 700,000)
of all homes sold in the UK each year will be without
the help of a traditional Estate Agent. |
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