Flying Homes Contact Details

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1. Contact details for Flying Homes
2. Helping you choose a cash property buyer
3. Alternatives to using a cash property buyer
4. Flying Homes: questions and answers

Contact details for Flying Homes are as follows.

Telephone number: 0800 669 6784

Email: Contact form

Website: https://www.flyinghomes.co.uk

Helping you choose a cash property buyer

One way to help you choose the right cash property buyer is to search for them online and make a list of all the companies that can buy homes in your area. Always email or call individual fast home buying businesses to find out whether they are able to purchase properties in your neighbourhood, because some companies only buy houses or flats in certain areas.

And you should also enter specific fast buying company names into search engines online. This is a fast and free way to quickly see whether there are any bad customer reviews or negative news articles written about the business that could serve as a warning not to sell to them.

You should also research whether a company is registered with The Property Ombudsman (TPO), which is an independent organisation that issues rules to protect homeowners against fraud in the fast property buying industry. TPO keeps a list of its legitimate members on its website, and you can search specific company names on the site to see if they are registered. Don’t sell your home to a fast buyer that isn’t a TPO member, because it could be a scam.

We recommend taking your time when making a decision on which company to use for your property, because selling your home is a major decision.

Alternatives to using a cash property buyer

Using a cash buyer for selling your home can be the right idea for several reasons. First, you’ll be able to sell without paying any commission, which means you can count on receiving the full profit from the final price that they offer for your home. Second, they can typically complete all of the steps for buying your home within weeks. That’s usually much speedier and more cost-effective than alternative methods for selling your home.

The two main choices you have instead of using a fast buyer are to try your luck with a property auction, or use an estate agent. As you’ll see below, both of those methods have some benefits, but that also come with certain disadvantages that you should know about before selling.

Using a property auctioneer

When you contact a property auctioneer about selling your home, they’ll ask you to set a reserve price – this is the lowest value at which you can accept your property selling. Next, they will create a listing that features photographs of your house or flat along with text describing its main features, such as the number of rooms. They will advertise this listing in the weeks leading up to the auction, at which people who are interested in buying your property will then be able to place bids on it.

The goal of selling at auction is to have many people wanting to buy your home, so that they try to outbid each other and increase the final sale price high. But you might only get one bid at the reserve price, and this is deemed a legal sale of your property, so be sure that the reserve price works for you after paying the auctioneers’ fees. And if you get no bids then your home doesn’t sell and you’ll have to start the process all over.

There can be some delays selling this way, including a wait of several weeks between when you list your home for sale and when the auction takes place. There are further delays after a sale, because the buyer has an average of 28 days to complete all of the required paperwork.

And auctioneers will also charge you commission usually based on a percentage of your home’s final sale value plus VAT, which will reduce the total net profit that you’re able to make from the sale.

Using an estate agent

Alternatively, you could sell via an estate agent, who will create a listing for your home and advertise it in local newspapers, in their office, and online. They will be responsible for scheduling viewings where potential buyers can tour the inside and outside of your house.

But some homeowners say that they find viewings to be very time-consuming and invasive. Another con of selling via an estate agent is that you will have to pay them fees, often as a percentage of your property’s final sale price, reducing your net sale profit.

And it might be several months, or in worst case scenarios more than a full year, before you receive a serious offer from a buyer. Even if you receive an offer, there’s also the danger that it could fall through at any time until contracts are formally exchanged on the home. This can be far from ideal if your priority when selling is finding a buyer as fast as you can.

Some estate agents might also not know how to sell certain homes, such as dilapidated properties, so you should always enquire to find out if they will be able to sell your property.