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Another important reason justifying a small initial charge is so that we can be sure that all the advertising material we carry is not only genuine but is current. This is vital if any service of this kind is to prove useful in the long run.
By paying a small sum to advertise houses, you will also be sponsoring our business. It offers up to date information about house availability; in an organised and professionally-managed way. A significant amount of time has been spent in the development and testing of this specialist online service, using valuable experience gained from working in the estates sector itself. Development and testing is an ongoing process.
Free sites simply can’t offer this to the same extent, as they are not managed in this way.
Both inaccurate and out-dated information tends to become widespread on them.
Also estate agents tend to use free sites, both for prospecting for clients, as well as for marketing property.
With free sites, percentage commission generally does get charged, somewhere along the line!
We feel such sites add confusion, by blurring the estate agent's business model, into the online-only one.
and finally,
Not a lot of people know this but ...
We are the first and probably the only property marketing web site to broadcast information about political lobbying. The Government has been lobbied to do away with the right of individuals to offer their houses for sale directly, altogether. Yes we are absolutely serious!
Since before Oct 08, privately commissioned lobbyists have been calling for the Government to make regulations to the effect that all sales of houses should be conducted only by accredited estate agents.
If house-owners do nothing, it is probable that one day they will loose their rights forever. Once that happens house-owners will be required to engage an estate agent when selling of letting; whether they like it or not. Given the general lack of respect people have for estate agents, owing to the way they deal with property matters, this would clearly not be in most people’s best interest, and therefore would not be democratic.
Who else is currently talking about this? We'd certainly be interested to hear, and to debate it publicly.
We also feel that people should question why other private advertising web sites are not raising this important issue. We think the media should be raising it, because such a loss of individuals' rights to market privately would be a travesty for home-owners.
By paying to use a direct online marketing service, you’ll be exercising your wish to retain your right to sell or let your house privately. You would be doing that by using Property-Match (UK).
We’re alerting you to these issues, in order that you can help prevent these changes before it is too late?
Could the Internet come to the help of the people in this instance? We happen to believe so - yes.
The services we offer our clients are unique on the Internet.
By paying a small fee, you'll also help to stop this web site from becoming cluttered with spurious commercial advertising, so helping to provide a more rewarding online property search and marketing experience ~ for everyone.
We hope the above helps to explain why we request a small payment from clients placing property adverts.
As we said earlier, at the end of the day people generally get the level of service they pay for.
Free services may look enticing, but in the final analysis; they are actually worthless.
Having read this, if you would like to ask us any further questions about how we can best help with your house marketing, we'll be glad to hear from you and someone will respond, in person.
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you are welcome to submit it using our Contact Us page.
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