From: "Ken" 
Newsgroups: uk.finance
Subject: Re: Selling your home privately in the UK
Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2006 18:59:27 +0100


"Derek F"  wrote in message 
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> "Ken"  wrote in message 
> news:44f6bc4d$0$1384$db0fefd9@news.zen.co.uk...
>>
>>  wrote in message 
>> news:1157018381.219011.80960@p79g2000cwp.googlegroups.com...
>>> > you pay peanuts, you get.........
>>
>> We can achieve much the same exposure as an estate agent, we do not
>> have shop fronts, we do not have people on the phones mindlessly
>> bouncing things back and forth between buyer and seller... effectively
>> our overheads are significantly less than estate agents.
>>
>> We simply use the power of the internet to enable you to sell your own
>> home. You only have to read the papers to realise that this is getting
>> a great deal of coverage and we will inevitably follow the US market
>> where 30% of homes are now sold privately.
>>
>> It just makes sense why should we pay £1000's to estate agents when
>> all they do is place a few ads and field a few telephone calls??
>>
>> You are very very deluded.
>>
>> Getting a person to agree to buy is the easy part but making sure they 
>> have the money and checking out their chain can be impossible unless an 
>> agent is involved. Then getting the sale through can be difficult and you 
>> are reliant on the agents experience to sort out the problems that will 
>> arise. Few sales run a smooth course.
>>
> The estate agents will defend themselves to the last man :-) Many estate 
> agents are deliberately vague about the address of the property they are 
> selling. We all want to know exactly where a property is from the advert 
> not just the area. I asked an estate agent why and he replied that if the 
> full address was in the advert 'unscrupulous people' would knock on the 
> sellers door and try to bypass the estate agent.
> Derek.

Not sure what point you are making - why should an agent not look after 
their own position as many vendors try to bypass the agent.

Ken