Do your own: house marketing: and sell direct

Advertise a house here & place what you have to sell or

let in front of those

looking online.

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HIPs are currently suspended, so they are no longer required. Great, you may say, but have you got your energy performance certificate (EPC)?

If not, you'll still need one but we can arrange this for you.

You need to obtain an EPC, before placing your house advert with us. You can get a quote and place an order simultaneously, using the link on the left of this page. This is a European Union directive in relation to emissions reduction targets, made under the Kyoto Agreement.

Photos:

The photos you upload need to be a minimum of 300 pixels in width, (except for the last one of the 5 extra ones), which should be 700 or more pixels width. We will be re-sizing them all. If you send gigantic photos though, it may clog up the processors!

YouTube Clips:

Those of you who want to show these in your adverts too, simply email us with your ad. ref. and the URL of the clip. We’ll embed the link in your advert, and advise you its in.

Agents tend to forget, its buyers who decide prices in the housing market - not sellers.

To learn how to calculate the sum to ask for your house, click on the “How to value” link here.

Stamp duty used to be paid by buyers on houses costing between £125,000 and £250,000 at a rate of 1% of the purchase price.

However, this is currently suspended until 24 March 2012.

If you sell for more than £250,000 the buyer will need to fund a 3% stamp duty payment, more if the price is over £500.000. See Asking Price for more details.

IMPORTANT NOTES:

Arranging your viewings:

Before a first house viewing is arranged, you are advised to ask the enquirer to provide the following information for security purposes:

Their name, present address and a contact telephone number.

They should also be asked to bring confirmation of their present address in the form of a recent utility bill or a bank statement, to be shown before the viewing commences.

If the applicant says they will be unable to produce such information, you should request them to bring identification in the form of a passport, a driving licence or their National Insurance details.

Take a careful note of all this, before letting them start viewing.

Remember, without an agent doing these things for you, you are potentially vulnerable to fraud, so we advise you to be prepared to obtain this information from each viewer and to keep a careful record.

All genuine viewers should be happy to comply (assuming they have nothing to hide). After all, they are strangers that you are about to invite into your property and they have just applied to do this through the Internet.

When arranging for viewers to visit your property, we also suggest that you get a couple of friends to help by showing the viewers around the property (though you could still accompany your friend if you prefer, of course).

They could follow each viewing up by asking what the viewer thought about the house, either at the time, or a short while afterwards.

This not only helps to keep the viewing experience more relaxed but is also the safest method to conduct house viewings.

You'll also get more accurate feedback about what you are selling or letting, including information about the price, condition, etc. Offers from viewers could be made to your friend, if preferred.

Once you have prospective purchasers or tenants willing to make offers; follow our Sellers Checklist as a guide when selling; or our Lettings Checklist as a guide if you are letting.

You need to have your EPC ready when placing your house advert.

Its a European Union directive (a green initiative).

(Be wary of phoney EPCs. They should be compiled by a registered and accredited Domestic Energy Assessor. The ones we offer are.)

Property Misdescriptions Act 1991:

Estate agents placing property advertisements fall under the Property Misdescriptions Act 1991. If a false or misleading statement is made about a property, the person making it shall be guilty of an offence. On conviction, a fine may be payable in the Magistrates Court. A statement (or photograph) may be considered misleading, if what a reasonable person may be expected to infer from it (or from any omission from it), is false.

The Act does not apply to statements made directly by private individuals to prospective purchasers, However, Trading Standards do still monitor them under the Trade Descriptions Act 1968, so please be careful to give a full and fair description of your property. For more information about this please go to: Property Misdescriptions Act 1991

Don't get taken-in by estate agents' unrealistic market appraisals - do your own one instead.

You don’t pay a percentage to sell or let using our online advertising, instead of an agent.

Cash (no chain) house sales and purchases a speciality. So save on fees here.

If you are someone who would rather not have to pay an estate agent's commission in order to get your property listed online, and if you're happy to conduct your own property negotiations, we can help. Our advertising service is tailored for you to use for only a small one-off charge.

But - you may be thinking. Why pay at all when some web sites are offering it for free?

For the answer please see: Why Pay where we give a full explanation.

A good picture truly is worth a thousand words.

A selection of carefully taken photographs of your property will encourage people to come to view it, so don't forget to include yours by uploading them when placing your advert.

Alternatively, if you don't have photos right now you can send these to us later, by email and we will upload them onto your advert for you.

If you want to get the absolute maximum online visibility in the shortest possible time...

Do it by arranging for us to provide a definite page one listing on Google, using PPC (pay per click) for your property advert. This is almost certainly the lowest cost, highest value service to be found anywhere. It is up there with the main property portals in terms of max. visibility. Just tick the box when placing your property advert to go for this option immediately.

Buying Pay-Per-Click gets you max visibility since your PPC link goes direct to your advert (right from page one of the search results in Google).

Once you have prospective purchasers or tenants willing to make you offers; follow our Sellers Checklist as a guide when selling; or our Lettings Checklist as a guide if you are letting.

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