What is the speediest method for selling your house or flat in Coldblow?
There are three main options for selling your property in Coldblow, which is within the south London borough of Bexley. It’s a mostly residential neighbourhood that is in close proximity to the green spaces of Slade Green and Russell Park, as well as Barnehurst Golf Course.
Your choices are selling your house or flat via an estate agent, via a property auction, or via a quick home buyer. Consider the strengths and weaknesses of each option detailed below before making a final decision on the method that best fits your particular needs.
An estate agent will do a lot of work on your behalf to sell your home, including creating a listing with text and photographs to show off your property to potential buyers. They will be responsible for advertising this listing, and for organising and hosting viewings where people come to see the home – although these might be time-consuming and inconvenient for homeowners.
But there are zero deadlines associated with selling your house or flat using the services of an estate agent, and some homes fail to receive a serious offer for months or even more than a year. If you are looking to sell your home within weeks this might not be the ideal option.
Some people like the idea of using a property auction because they like the possibility of making a significant profit from the sale, if more than one person is seriously interested in buying the home and these buyers try to outbid each other and push the final sale price up. But there is no promise that this will happen, and you have to be prepared for accepting that you might get no bids or only the low opening reserve price bid that you’ve agreed to with the auctioneer.
Another potential benefit of selling at an auction is certainty about finding a buyer, because a winning top bid on your home is considered a legally binding agreement that you can enforce.
But there might be a few short delays involved with selling your home this way, such as a wait of possibly a few weeks or longer between the date on which you enter your property for sale and when the auction occurs. Further, you could face additional delays after the auction has successful ended whilst all of the necessary paperwork about the sale is completed.
Auctioneers, like estate agents, will also charge you fees for the work of selling your home, although in some cases you might be able to make the winning high bidder pay these fees.
LDN Properties, launched in 2003, is a fast home buyer which means we aim to complete the purchase of each house or flat within a handful of weeks. This generally is much swifter than the amount of time it takes to sell using a property auctioneer or an estate agent.
We also guarantee to never charge homeowners any fees when selling their properties to us, which ensures that they get to maximise the profit from the sale of their homes. If you sell to an estate agent or auctioneer, you’ll have to subtract their fees from your final net sale profit.
And we can also consider buying the broadest possible range of properties, both freehold and leasehold, such as inherited retirement homes, houses that are in significant disrepair, homes that have the presence of the invasive species Japanese knotweed in the garden, tenanted properties that still have a long time left on the lease agreement, and many other different situations.
