A quality way i found to sell my house online.
Aug 19, 2008 in Home
When you decide to sell your home online or buy online it is worth considering the following tips. With a few of the more customer friendly sites you are able to place the particulars of your private home sale straight onto the page that your property is being displayed this means that if you are a bit of a night owl or work through out the day you are able to enter your particulars as and when you feel like it rather than fitting in with the site owners schedule. This ensures that you can change your details at any time be it sizes, descriptions or more decisively the price of your house. Often there is some sort of waver stating that the information is purely provided by the property owner and doesn?t necessarily contain the complete particulars.
When you are measuring up, make sure you give clear descripions of what measurement you are giving, from a buyers point of view it is always worth questioning anything you are unsure of and most private sellers are more than pleased to answer any questions. The website that a property is being shown on will not have carried out a appraisal on the house and it will as a rule be upto the purchaser to have a surveyors report done on the property before exchanging contracts. Always use a qualified contractor to test the appliances and equipment in a property, this will help you to discuss price if something is amiss. As a seller it is worth having any service information to hand to allow you to barter for a better price. Make sure you involve a solicitor to look into all legal issues relating to the house (e.g. title, tenure, planning permission etc) as these are specialist issues that will not be sorted out by websites. A solicitor also sorts out with the seller what things (e.g. carpets, curtains, fixtures & fittings, sheds etc) will or will not be built into the sale.
In other words, you should verify for yourself all information before acting on it, in particular the current asking price, sizes of rooms, ownership, freehold, extent of refurbishments and any issues of specific importance to you.