Selling a house in the UK is no longer the sole preserve of high street estate agents. Because these days you can sell a house online, many more options have opened up to the determined seller, allowing them to get more from the sale of their home.
If you stop for a moment and take a look online you will find more than just a fist-full of credible alternatives to the standard estate agency model. There are countless property advertising websites that can help you to sell house privately, a few of these services can also get your property listed on Rightmove and as such market your property to millions of potential house buyers each month. Websites that are know to work are GetAnOffer and Tepilo, the latter is even free to advertise but will not get your property onto the major property portal (which in all honesty is where it needs to be).
Recently the BBC aired quite an enlightening television program that showed house sellers exactly how to get their homes ready for sale, promote it online, host effective viewings and even negotiate the final sale price. The estate agents industry was in uproar that the national TV channel could be allowed to show something which attempted to — they claimed — jeopardise license payers’ livelihoods.
It is a worry for estate agents, because the number of people who can view a property on a website in a day is limited only by the imagination, making the number of people who will see it in the local newspaper or an estate agents window pale into insignificance.
Accurately working out “how much is my house worth” is also much easier in this Internet age. The data you need is freely available as long as you know where to look. Now that the Land Registry website is there for everyone to see what homes near them are selling for, they can get an idea for themselves of what their initial asking price should be.
Selling a house without and estate agent is not for the faint hearted; it is a hard slog. You need to have the confidence to take the photos, write the property advert and haggle with buyers. What’s more you have to accept that if it all goes wrong and you don’t find the right buyer at the right price then you only have yourself to blame.
Selling a property without an estate agent does not guarantee success. However, what is guaranteed is that if you do sell, you will have saved yourself £1.000′s that otherwise would have gone into the estate agent’s pocket.

















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