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I did and they were excellent for sale in Reading. Had 10 viewings in two shifts first weekend on the market and managed offers very well. Would not hesitate to recommend them

Did you use their conveyancing team? Or did you opt to pay up front?

They are pretty good, in Liverpool. Bear in mind you still have to pay their commission whether or not you sell the house.

Their commission is a lot less than what I would have to pay an agent , £1300 compared to nearly £10k

Down with the agents, yes! Literally no need for them.

How would you go about selling the house privately though?

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Did you use their conveyancing team? Or did you opt to pay up front?

 

Their commission is a lot less than what I would have to pay an agent , £1300 compared to nearly £10k

 

How would you go about selling the house privately though?

I need an online platform and a solicitor, nothing else.

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But how do you get to Rightmove without an agent?

get a rogue agent to list it but not bother trying to sell it

 

 

or pay an agent £1k to list it, knowing it will make Right Move, and then if the agent gets enquiries, they forward them to you directly and you do the rest

wouldn't have done this back in the day but knowing what I know now, I'd do it

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Their commission is a lot less than what I would have to pay an agent , £1300 compared to nearly £10k

 

We got our agent down to 1% in London 4 years ago - what we paid in commission was more than made up for by how much over the asking price (which itself we thought he'd set too high) that he got us.

 

Was really good with everything and did all he could to get the sale through as quickly as possible. The f***ing conveyencers were a different f***ing matter - we weren't buying immediately and the buyer was paying cash - still took the useless f***ers 3 months to get it done.

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Will sammya go rogue? Will his conscience get the better of him?

he can take the 'Muslim route'* and commute the guilt by paying some of the money to charity

 

 

* I refer to my recent property dealings with my Arab cousins; there's a pattern which keeps repeating, whereby when the premises to be purchased are licensed, there always seems to be an honourable way of getting around it

I can provide a worked example if requested

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Hijacking this somewhat relevant thread.

 

Looking at a house and we've already bartered them down a bit. Now the seller is saying they won't renegotiate if the survey comes back with issues because they're already at their lowest point. Anyone with experience of this type of issue?

 

We haven't actually got the survey yet but worried it'll be money down the drain if it comes back with 10ks worth of work needing doing and she won't renegotiate.

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Hijacking this somewhat relevant thread.

 

Looking at a house and we've already bartered them down a bit. Now the seller is saying they won't renegotiate if the survey comes back with issues because they're already at their lowest point. Anyone with experience of this type of issue?

 

We haven't actually got the survey yet but worried it'll be money down the drain if it comes back with 10ks worth of work needing doing and she won't renegotiate.

first question to ask “ has anyone else had a survey done on it?”

If answer is yes and it didn’t proceed...

 

In other words ask them why they might think a survey would down value it

 

Also if a survey found major problems then you could probably spot them yourself

 

Roof, structure, drainage, electrics, joists (dry rot) and windows

And damp proof course

 

Are the usual major ones

Plus anything that’s been built illegally or without building regs eg an extension

 

If you want I’ll send you a handy sheet I used to use back in the day or just google ‘ how to spot problems ‘ for those items

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Hijacking this somewhat relevant thread.

 

Looking at a house and we've already bartered them down a bit. Now the seller is saying they won't renegotiate if the survey comes back with issues because they're already at their lowest point. Anyone with experience of this type of issue?

 

We haven't actually got the survey yet but worried it'll be money down the drain if it comes back with 10ks worth of work needing doing and she won't renegotiate.

 

 

 I did the exact same when selling a property recently. I needed a quick sale so very early we agreed a reduction and I made it very clear that anything that came up in the survey that was not putting them off buying the property was not open to any price negotiation

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Thanks both. I'll ask the estate agent now about past surveys.

 

The house looks fine from my layman's eye. Might need a bit of work done to the roof but we have a roofer in the family for that.

 

I'm thinking we're probably going to just have to take the risk but the missus is worried about losing the survey fee if there are major costs. I tried explaining that if the house needed 10k of work and the seller was willing to negotiate down, we'd probably have to walk away anyway as we haven't got a spare 10k to throw at it.

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Hijacking this somewhat relevant thread.

 

Looking at a house and we've already bartered them down a bit. Now the seller is saying they won't renegotiate if the survey comes back with issues because they're already at their lowest point. Anyone with experience of this type of issue?

 

We haven't actually got the survey yet but worried it'll be money down the drain if it comes back with 10ks worth of work needing doing and she won't renegotiate.

They will.

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