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| Its
Official - Private Sales are faster than through Agents!
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| Reuters reports that a survey conducted
by Alliance & Leicester has found that private home-sellers using
websites to market their properties have sold their homes in an average
of less than two months while those using the more conventional estate
agency route were taking over three months. |
| 8% of the 2,384 people interviewed
said they had used Private Property Sales sites. (This is up from
the commonly accepted figure of 5% last year.) A similar proportion
had simply used word-of-mouth. Of the rest, 5% had advertised in a
local paper, 4% had made their own “for sale” board and 1% had even
used auction sites like eBay. |
| A spokesperson for A&L said “Using
an Estate Agent to sell your home is generally viewed as part and
parcel of the moving process, but the research suggests that DIY methods
, such as using the Internet to sell a home are becoming more popular.”
(FSBO
June 2007) |
| So,
you not only save money, you also sell faster privately. Not a bad
combination! |
| Why
not Sell your Property Yourself? |
| First
off, lets make a few things perfectly clear about selling property
privately: |
1.
Yes it can be done!
2. It is not terribly difficult!
3. Using an Estate Agent wont guarantee you''ll sell your house for
more!
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| A
lot of people feel strongly that traditional Estate Agents don''t deserve
the fees they charge - Rightly so! Property prices have risen dramatically
over the last decade. As fees are based on the percentage of your
property''s value, Estate Agents have been making a killing (over £4
billion last year). Are they working any harder for their money? Are
they providing you with a better service? |
| Its a Growing
Trend! |
| Did you know that On 15th June 2007, a survey
conducted by Alliance & Leicester found that private home-sellers
using websites to market their properties have sold their homes in
an average of less than two months while those using the more conventional
estate agency route were taking over three months! So, its official,
selling though private sites, like Norwich-Properties.com
is FASTER than selling though an estate agent! |
| As
many people have realised, to sell property privately all you need
are: |
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1. Common Sense
2. Decent organisational Skills
3. The desire to save a considerable sum of money
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| Figures from the Office of Fair Trading show
that 1 in 10 homeowners now attempt to sell property privately. The
OFT interviewed a sample of these private sellers and their findings
were dramatic: 91% reported the whole process ran
extremely smoothly. Most said they would do it again. |
| Compare that to the findings of a recent Which?
report that stated: 50% of sellers who used Estate Agents were dissatisfied
with the service they recieved. |
| There is even a recent study by the ''Interactive
in Media Retail Group'', IMRG (the global e-retailing industry body)
looking at the rise in popularity of selling a house privately. They
forecast that by 2010 nearly half (that''s 700,000) of all homes sold
in the UK each year will be without the help of a traditional Estate
Agent. |
| Your property advertised elsewhere? Please read this: - |
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Norwich-Properties.com is
a secure property marketing portal providing the ability for
a Vendor to market their own property privately. |
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You do not have to give up an existing agent to be with us! We may complement each other...You can still advertise your property on Norwich-Properties.com, however, we would suggest you check any existing agreement before advertising on our website. |
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Norwich-Properties.com is an online direct advertising service for private property sellers. Since the service is purely a form of advertisement there is no conflict with any Estate Agency agreements. A sale arising directly from the advert with no Agent intervention or action is a private matter of self-selling and therefore is not in conflict with any ‘sole agency’ agreements. |
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Norwich-Properties do NOT give advice on valuation, asking price or description. You provide the photographs and property description, you deal with buyers direct (forwarded on to you through our website), you arrange viewings and handle negotiations. |
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You manage your own property details and contact methods via our automated website systems. Norwich-Properties.com personnel do not intervene in the contact or viewing process and do not discuss property details with prospective buyers. Buyers or tenants contact you direct. |
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We do not accept any liability
for the wrongful or misleading use of advertising information
as provided by the seller/buyer/letting agent. We will make
regular checks to ensure to the best of our ability that the
information submitted is correct. It is your responsibility
to view the property and to carry out appropriate structural
surveys before any final decision is made. |
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The above information is for your benefit to ensure you are not misled in any way. |
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