I’m intending to sell a house in the Dartford area soon. Just had 3 High Street agencies around today plus an online firm for valuations.
What a minefield this is. Go online and pay less or stick with the traditional firms. And why don’t many agencies open on Sundays ?!
Anyone been through this process recently ?
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Also if two people are bidding for a property, and one is selling theirs via an online estate agent and the other via a traditional agent, the selling estate agent tends to push the sale towards the other traditional agent.
All I would say is read the small print for any online agent you intend to use as most of them (including purple bricks) charge their fee even if they don’t sell your property. I know lots of people who haven’t been happy with their service as they essentially get their fee once you’ve instructed them and couldn’t give a toss whether it sells or not. Where a traditional estate agent gets their fee when they sell the property and also don’t charge if the property doesn’t sell. We also had a situation not too long ago where an online agent valued a property at 40k below the price we valued it at and we sold that property within a day!
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I would always go with a traditional Estate Agent & have sold through Your Move, Halifax and Robinson & Jackson in Dartford before. Some are better than others and as previous posters have said, use one that actually use a camera for the photos and on any literature show them in colour. I always advise to look at their sales particulars for other properties & see if this is how you would want YOUR property shown.
The more experience or established agents will probably give you a price band. One of my sons is currently buying a house in Bexley village, the agents have been okay, and Hunters ( his agent) were he is in Gravesend have been exceptional, professional, and worked hard . ( there is always an exception!) Personally, I think the branches depend on the team working there at the time, as others have said people use the web, and your relationship with the team selling your house is important, try and be pleasant, even though some are a lower form of pond life)
I got Robinson Jackson to match Anthony Martin's fee in Bexley village, when we sold 18 months ago, personally I think he liked to get it off Park estates books, and had some people wanting the type of house I had.
Eg in Bexley, Village Estates and Park estates sold the slightly more expensive houses with Robinson Jackson etc selling cheaper ones.
Find who has sold most of your type of property in your local area and go with them.
I think I’m veering away from Purple Bricks, especially having read Golfie’s comments !
I sold the house for £800k and the best estate agent fee was 1% meaning I would have parted with £8k plus legal fees.
I finished up giving emove a little over £1,500 including legal fees.
No brainer.