Shall I sell my house online or pay the estate agent?

September 11th, 2008

Right so I want to sell my house but how do I go about it?

A normal way to sell my house is to approach an Estate agent and get them to advertise my property. This will probably encompass advertising in the local paper, a photograph in the window of the estate agents shop, a for sale sign and an estate agent to show the prospective buyer about your house for sale, oh! And of course a large chunk of commission off the profit you would have received from the sale of your home.

An alternative of course is to contact a expert business online and let them place all of your homes details and specs, including pictures to a huge market for a set price and still have a billboard out in your front garden.

I went the online route to sell my house and used an online site to do the promotion for me this gave me the opportunity to have a lot more control and really know that the sum I was paying out meant something rather than going to pay somebody else?s wages. I cant quite recall the specific value but I believe that estate agents prices are something like 2 % which is several thousand pounds instead of about one hundred pounds for an expert service without the fuss and stress. It also means that you can update you information as and when you like and if you decide to change the price of your property you can change it when you like.

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BBC swaps phone numbers

September 11th, 2008

In a dramatic change in policy the BBC is switching from 0870 numbers to 03 numbers.

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The British broadcaster is now favouring the 0370 numbers not the 0870 numbers used in the past. This enables people to contact the BBC at the cost of a standard 01 or 02 number. One major benefit is that the 03 numbers are often included in the free minutes you get with your mobile phone plan.

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The new Home Direct loans and the current state of the housing market.

September 8th, 2008

With big building companies going bust and the state of the housing market looking poorer and poorer. The housing market doesn?t look good. People I know keep on saying I want to ? sell my house? but are not sure whether to, because of poor equity. For myself I would like the opportunity to get my foot on housing market in the start. The new loans and tax breaks that have been placed on the market aren?t really flexible enough to entice me into buying a property, with the only property that you can buy being new builds which frankly most of the time look like little boxes with very little space, is this just another attempt for the government to reach target. The basics are developers generally want to knock out as many buildings as quickly as they can for the smallest amount of money on the smallest amount of space. People need an area that they are investing their money into for their personal benefit, in a place they aren?t over looked and where they feel they can get out into their garden into their own space. The stamp duty rising to ?175,000 is something that should have been done years ago rather than the appeasement policy for the little people it appears to be, that wont last for very long. A lot of people can?t save for a mortgage because they are don?t have the spare funds and although we get reports that the average wage is a certain figure it has no relation to the low amount most of us earn.

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