Stop 20 people on the street and ask them how you sell a house; almost all will reply that you get an estate agent to sell it for you. If you meet someone really clued up they might suggest that you market your property yourself via the Internet, or that you advertise it privately in house-buying magazines, but in general the response will be the same...estate agent, estate agent, estate agent.
Some estate agents do a terrific job of marketing and selling your home but the fact is they can only work with what they are given. Anyone who is in sales or marketing will tell you that the better the product or service the easier the sale is to make. So if your home is beautifully decorated, lifted straight from the pages of an interior design magazine and spotlessly clean, the estate agent is likely to have no problem in introducing keen buyers to view.
But back in real life few of us live in houses like that. Most people now realise that their home does need to be ‘marketed’ and that might mean doing a little decorating, tidying up the front garden, clearing away the ornaments and doing a thorough spring clean, but there aren’t many people who are able or willing to give a home a complete makeover to get it to sell.
For houses that don’t meet the high standards buyers are looking for – and that’s most of those on the market today – there are other avenues that are worth considering. If your estate agent doesn’t seem to be able to introduce prospective buyers as you think he or she should, consider approaching Property Rescue to ask them to value your home.
Property Rescue is an established business which specialises in buying property. They have access to a network of funding and will make an almost instant valuation for your home. They buy for cash and no one else is involved. The sale can take place almost immediately, your legal fees on the sale are included in the price they offer, and you save money because you don’t pay your estate agent for a buyer introduced via them.
Call Property Rescue to find out how easy selling your house can be – and how fast!