If you’re looking to sell a house without estate agents in Manchester, we can help.
Although we do cooperate with estate agents, sometimes it’s best to avoid paying someone to be in the middle.
After all, a commission on the sale of a Manchester property is usually a lot of money. In certain situations, estate agents can be very useful and earn their commission. Not always.
What can you do to avoid paying high commissions on your Manchester property sale?
First, there’s the issue that you already know about. In most sales, the commission you pay as the seller is for stuff you can do yourself. A lot of online agents charge you a fee for selling your house, but you still have to take your own photos and do your own viewings.
Doesn’t make much sense, right?
Why should you pay for something you do yourself?
Truthfully, it defies logic – but it’s just what’s typically done.
How do you sell a house without estate agents in Manchester if the vast majority of transactions happen through estate agents?
There has been a rise in the number of DIY websites where you sell your own house. You do all the work, they charge you for advertising the property. Although you can save some money, most property sellers don’t realise how much hassle there is involved in selling a house in Manchester. You will, most likely, have to deal with quite a few time wasters who just want to come and look at your property but have no intention of buying it.
Don’t overprice your property. If properties similar to yours sold for prices that included agent’s commissions, take that into account when looking at comparable sales in your area. If you’re doing the work of the agent, you can expect to save that money the agent would charge so you don’t have to factor in the cost of the commission.
Be aware that a savvy buyer will expect to get a discount. Sale prices in Manchester have stopped rising in recent months and in many areas, have fallen. If you don’t leave room for the buyer to negotiate, you might be excluding a large number of potential buyers in the the UK market.
To sell your property on your own, you have to market it well.
In theory, estate agents charge commissions because they have to spend a lot of money up front to advertise your property. By advertising lots of properties at once, they expect to get more phone calls – and obviously, they’ll make good profits by selling lots of houses. Certain properties might require thousands of pounds in advertising expenses before the right buyer happens to see the ad and call.
Advertising is a gamble. Putting up posters and signs around your neighbourhood can generate some interest, and there are a lot of free websites where you can post information. But often just putting up signs and an open house aren’t enough if your house doesn’t appeal to the average home buyer.
Sometimes open houses can be a great way to sell a property in the UK, but sometimes they’re a waste of time. Same with newspaper ads, Gumtree postings, fancy signs – sometimes they work, and sometimes they don’t. The DIY house selling sites are a cheap way to market your property to a very wide audience.
You could even try putting an ad in the local paper or on one of the free websites that sell pretty much everything under the sun. The chances of finding a serious buyer though, are slim.
If you want to avoid paying any commissions, you can also sell your house to investors for CASH. Be aware that the price you will get will be lower than the market value of the property.
We Pay Fair Prices For Properties – And We Can Offer the Full Market Value.
Sometimes we’ll purchase the UK houses, fix them up, then rent them out… Sometimes we’ll sell them to other people looking for great family homes in Manchester.
We love to hear from people like you who are thinking about selling a house anywhere in Manchester or the surrounding counties.
We’re investors who care a lot about the Manchester property market and understand that home owners and landlords are looking for alternative options when it comes to buying and selling properties.
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