Is it swifter to sell your Lamorbey home to a quick property buyer?
There are typically three options for homeowners looking to sell their properties: use an estate agent, try an auction, or sell to a fast buyer. As detailed below, some of the methods are slower than others, so review the strengths and cons of each before deciding how to proceed.
When you sell your home using an estate agent, they will take care of preparing a listing that describes your home and features photos of it, which they’ll then market in a bid to get people interested in the property. Estate agents will also handle viewings for prospective buyers to see your home, although you might find these visits to be time-consuming and inconvenient.
A major downside of using an estate agent to sell your home is that it can take a long time, possibly a couple of months to more than a year. This is not useful for homeowners that need to sell their houses or flats as quickly as they can because of their specific situations.
Property auctioneers will also do a lot of the hard work of selling your home, including developing the listing and advertising the upcoming auction to get people interested in buying it.
Auctions can also give you some certainty about selling your property, because you’ll be given a specific date on which the sale will take place. And if you receive at least the minimum opening reserve price offer, that is considered a legally binding agreement to buy your home.
However, there can be some delays with using this method for selling your property, such as a potential delay of a few weeks between when you list your home for sale and when the auction occurs. Further delays might happen after the sale whilst the required paperwork is completed.
And auctioneers also charge fees for their work in selling your home, although in some situations you might be able to have the winning high bidder pay these costs.
A third option is to sell your home to a quick buyer, who will generally be able to complete the purchase of your house or flat in a few weeks. That includes the time it takes to pay you the proceeds and exchange contracts, which can be much faster than other methods of selling.
LDN Properties is a fast home buyer and can make quick and fair offers to buy all types of flats and houses in Lamorbey, which is in the borough of Bexley in south London. This area features a number of properties that are hundreds of years old, including Ye Old Black Horse pub that opened in 1743 and a house that is believed to date back as far as 1452.
And like other fast buyers, we promise to never charge you any fees when you sell your home to us, meaning you get to keep all of the profit from the sale.