Top Tips on How to Save Money When You Sell Your House

Article by Free Property Ads

Moving home and selling your house is always going to be a stressful event but it’s also very expensive. If you’re paying out for HIP report, solicitors and even doing your house up to look it’s best to get a decent sale price your bank account is likely to groan. One way to save some pennies is to try to market your house on one of the free property ads web sites.

Free property ads web sites can offer you exposure on the internet and allow you to avoid paying commission rates to an established high street estate agent. Estate agents can charge you commission from 0.5 percent up to 2 or even 3% commission based on exactly what they offer to do for you. This can range from placing details of your home in their regular newspaper property section advertising, to arranging and managing house viewings for you when you’re at work. What they can’t do is actually guarantee a sale price. Estate agents will value your house based on the current market value, taking into account the size and quality of the accommodation it offers, the local housing market and demand for homes like yours, and a price that they think they can reach for you.

If you’re happy to manage viewings and enquiries by yourself then marketing your home sale privately on a free property ad website could be the right option for you. Due to the current difficult state of the UKs’ economy many people are choosing to sell their homes privately. If you opt to take out an advert with a private home selling website, check the terms and conditions first to make sure you know exactly what you’re getting for free and you could save a significant amount of money. Check to see if there are other houses featured for sale on the web site, ask how many visitors the website has every month, and what they do to market their site. If they regularly update the site with new information and advert for homes for sale, and send out newsletters to targeted audiences then you know that your free house ad will be getting maximum exposure.

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