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Property for Sale or Rent in Brighton & Hove, UK
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| Why
not Sell your Property Privately? |
| First
off, lets make a few things perfectly clear about selling property
privately: |
1.
It can be done!
2. It is not terribly difficult!
3. Using an Estate Agent does not guarantee you''ll sell your house
for more! |
| A
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? |
| Selling
Property Privately is a Growing Trend! |
| As
many people have realised, to sell property privately all you need
are: |
Common
sense
Decent organisational skills
The desire to save a considerable sum of money |
| 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 the recent Which?
report that stated: 50% of sellers who used Estate Agents were
dissatisfied with the service they received |
| 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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