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been reviewing various sites after the realisation that standard estate agents still charge the earth plus some charge an upfront fee to market your property!
Has anyone had any experience using the online estate agents - the ones that charge upfront fees and get your house on the net??
Ha! I saw a Alpine style Bungalow in Preswitch over three floors/garage etc underneath - Harry you might have seen it (behind the back of M&S). Anyway it was advertised/managed by online Estate Agents and the viewings were through the owners.
The Online 'Agents' had gotten the price wrong. We made an offer at the third viewing after numerous phone calls discussing etc etc.
Turns out there was a 50k mistake. The owner admitted he was optimistic however he'd built it from scratch and was attached etc etc but still.
What a waste of time.
We've just sold (under offer but not exchanged) through a local agent the fee was 'negotiable' and ended up at 2.5% (including vat). But we got top money and they also 'vet' all viewings/offers. So we know the actual situation of all the chain.
tbh I'd go local, and negotiate.
we had both 'online' and traditional round.
the 'online' ones were a proper and complete sham in my eyes. they basically put your property on right move, then washed their hands of you.
might as well stick it on ebay, and save yourself the £300 they wanted.
proper jokers. couldn't answer a single question i tried them with.
As a buyer I imagine it would be a complete pita to deal with an online estate agent as normal ones are bad enough!