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6 key points you must check before choosing an estate agent

by Zen | Sep 7, 2021 | Building Surveys, Conveyancing, Estate Agents, Home Buyer Surveys, House Prices, Selling your home, Valuations

The Checklist – before appointing estate agents Before you sign an estate agent’s contract, always check the small print. As well as negotiating the fee (+VAT) payable upon a successful sale (or introducing the eventual buyer) be sure to get...

Selling property with fixed-fee agents like Purple Bricks

by Zen | Aug 17, 2021 | Building Surveys, Conveyancing, Estate Agents, Home Buyer Surveys, Selling your home, Valuations

Purple Bricks – a different approach Unlike conventional High Street estate agents, some newer online agents like Purple Bricks charge a flat fee at the outset rather than taking commission based on the actual sale achieved. This is a radical...

How much do estate agents charge to sell your property?

by Zen | Aug 17, 2021 | Building Surveys, Conveyancing, Estate Agents, Home Buyer Surveys, Selling your home, Valuations

Estate agents’ fees Competition between local estate agents is normally pretty fierce. Yet most turn over large sums and seem to do very nicely financially come rain or shine. For some agents the primary objective is to get the most ‘instructions’...

Should you give your estate agent ‘sole selling rights’ to your property?

by Zen | Jul 26, 2021 | Building Surveys, Conveyancing, Estate Agents, Home Buyer Surveys, Selling your home, Valuations

Sole and multiple agency Most people wanting to sell their property via an estate agent start by appointing a single agent – an arrangement known as ‘sole agency’. Here the appointed agent is the only estate agent with the right to sell your...

Planning restrictions are not a major obstacle to UK housebuilding

by Zen | Jul 7, 2021 | Conveyancing, Home Buyer Surveys, Home Condition Reports, House Prices, Legal work, Selling your home, Valuations

Planning restrictions are not a major obstacle to housebuilding – so why is the government determined to overturn them? If the rate of UK house price increases over the last fifty years were applied to the price of food, then a chicken would today cost £70...

Sole or multiple estate agents – what’s best?

by Zen | Jun 16, 2021 | Building Surveys, Conveyancing, Estate Agents, Home Buyer Surveys, Selling your home, Valuations

Sole or multiple agency? Should you appoint just one estate agent? Or is there a better chance of achieving a sale by using two or even three simultaneously? Most sellers appoint a single agent, until things get a bit desperate and 2 or more agents are...

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