Should you use Online Agents?
Should you use an online estate agent?
Q: If you sell privately, what is the key in selling your home?
A: Buyers.
There are many other factors involved in selling, such as finding top tips to sell your home, or you may need to find a company that provides online conveyancing, or you may need to investigate what a (HIP) Home Information Pack actually is before you buy one online.
However, the one thing that you will need to address is finding buyers for your home.
The question now should be:
Where can I get a buyer for my home, through a local estate agent or with one of these new online estate agencies?
Sell your own property
Use an estate agent, or sell your own property (FSBO)With costs rising all around, we are looking to save money. The cost of selling your property can be significant. It’s not only the estate agent’s fees that are significant. The Government have introduced the Home Information Pack ( HIP’s) which most homeowners will now have to buy, before they can even place the property on the market. The conventional property lawyer’s fees are also significant and savings can be made here by using an online conveyancing service.
We are all now getting used to using online services such as banking, food shopping, clothes by mail order, gifts, books. Now it’s possible to buy a form of estate agency online for Read more
Conveyancing searches
When selling my own property,What Searches are carried out and why? - In the Uk, when you now sell a property, you are obliged to provide information regarding your property that is not just about the physical structure. Most of this information is now provided to the buyer within the form of a Home Information Pack (HIP). However, ’searches’ is a term loosely used by conveyancers and estate agents. Here is a brief explanation of some of the searches involved in a property sale:
Local authority search - If there is a Home Information Pack (HIP) this search will be included in it. This search reveals details of matters such as the planning history, proposals for new road schemes, planning breaches, tree
preservation orders, conservation areas and other matters over which the council have control and may affect the enjoyment or value of the property. Your mortgage lender (if any) will require you to have one of these.
What is a Home Information Pack?
What is a Home Information Pack?
A Home Information Pack (”HIP”) contains important information that buyers and sellers need to know about a property. The Pack includes an Energy Performance Certificate (EPC), containing advice on how to cut carbon emissions and fuel bills. Also included are documents such as a sale statement, searches and evidence of title. Packs are now required for the sale of four bedroom properties and larger. Smaller properties will be phased in as soon as sufficient energy assessors are fully qualified. The seller orders and pays for the HIP at the point where a property is put on the market. It is provided to the Buyer free of charge. If you are a seller, we can arrange for a HIP to be prepared on your behalf. For further details, contact us on: 01480 434290 or zoe@gatehouseestates.co.uk
For sellers, providing a Pack upfront should reduce the likelihood of any nasty surprises in the selling process that could delay the sale, as buyers will be able to make more informed decisions about purchasing their home.
For buyers, the Pack provides essential information about properties they are considering buying, free of charge.
Online Conveyancing comes of age
On-line conveyancing
Save yourself a great deal of money. The traditional ways of having your house sale legally processed have long gone. With the advent of on-line shopping, banking, blogs, forums etc, we are all now used to secure server log-ins and generally feel more in control when we are able to track progress on-line.
House sale conveyancing has come of age. You can now order your free quote for selling, or buying, on-line. You can even order your Home Information Pack (HIP´s) and Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) on-line.
Gatehouse Estates are able to provide quotataions for HIP´s, EPC´s and Conveyancing packages. Once you have decided to go ahead with a Conveyancing deal, you will be allocated your own log-in username and Password. From this point forward, you will be able to remove a great deal of the frustration that people have had to endure in the past, namely waiting for an update about the next stage in the process of buying, or selling, your home.
Want to know more? Call 01480 434290 or email zoe@gatehouseestates.co.uk
Top Tips To Sell Your Home
Top Tips to sell your home
There´s no doubt about it, the UK property sales market has slowed down. Whether it´s as a consequence of the introduction of HIP´s, the increase the Chancellor made some years ago to the amount of Stamp duty, or simply the fact that wages just haven´t kept up with the rise in house prices….. The net result has been a market slowdown in sales numbers and numbers of properties becoming available to buy.
If you want to sell your home now, it´s not as easy as it was. There are ways to improve your chances of a sale once you have a viewer though. While these suggestions are not new, they will help to guide anyone to maximize the charm that their property offers.
Here are some tips to think about when selling your property: Read more
