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...
by Zen | Aug 19, 2021 | Building Surveys, Buying a home, Buying a home privately, Estate Agents, Finding a property, Finding the right property, Home Buyer Surveys, House Prices, Making An Offer, Sealed Bids, Valuations
With any major purchase decision there are a number of psychological decision-making stages that we, as buyers, go through. Buying a property is the biggest and most drawn out purchase decision most of us make in our entire lives. So understanding these stages can...
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...
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’...
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...
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...
