Estate agent per centage

[flipnflap]

What is the smallest estate agent's per centage any of you have managed to knock one down to, and on what price house in what county?

[ummmm]

I got 1% £250,000 Northants.

I changed my mind though and took it off the market.

[bednobs]

1% price = 170k in berkshire

[rockyracoon]

I got 1% on multiagent about 12 years ago, 1% solo agent 5 years ago. An estate agent round here will sell for a flat fee of £1200 + VAT, although I wouldn't use him to sell, buy yes, but definitely not sell.

[starone]

My house agent has also accepted 1% but the house has been on the market now for nearly a year and has been 'sold' three times, each time something has gone wrong and the buyers have decided not to proceed. I have just been let down for the third time and I feel really gutted about it. I feel like removing it from the market and carrying on here but as I am getting too old for the stairs I just have to keep going.

[bednobs]

get a stairlift starby - it'll be cheaper than the estate agent commission

[starone]

That is an option boxtops, but I also want to go and live in a more pleasant district and to live nearer my daughter (not with, that would be untenable). I shall stick it out for a bit longer, although to be honest strangers traipsing through your house and criticising it is not very nice.

[J9PUR]

One of our local estate agents (www.tangerine.co) has two standard options:

1) 0.95%
2) 0.5% + £250 set up fee on instruction

[Buenchico]

1% is probably about as low as you'll get (which is at least a lot better than many of our American cousins pay - apparently 6% is common in New York!).

However (if you're able to handle the viewings yourself) you can pay FAR less by using an online service. (Typically £300 + VAT = £360 in total). Those services put your property on the major home-buying websites which is (in reality) all that High Street estate agents do anyway.

If the property is close to others which are for sale (so that people viewing them will see yours as well), or otherwise located where lots of people will see it, you don't even need any form of agency. I sold my father's house by simply designing a 'For Sale' poster on my computer. I took it to a copy shop to have it enlarged and two copies printed on fluorescent paper. One copy went in the front window of the house, with the other in a side window (but still facing onto the street). I sold the house very quickly, for a couple of quid!

Chris

[flipnflap]

buenchico, which property websites can you pay to advertise on? I think the likes of rightmove.co.uk will only accepted properties supplied through estate agents.

[Buenchico]

Flipnflap:
£295 (+VAT) can get your property onto Rightmove, PrimeLocation, Fish4Homes and loads more sites:
http://www.onlineestateagentsuk.com/

Chris