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What is the speediest option for selling your house or flat in South Acton?

There are four typical options available whenever you would to sell your home in South Acton, which is in Ealing borough of west London and the site of a housing estate that the local council owns which covers 25 hectares with about 2,000 dwellings. Each of these approaches has unique benefits, but you’ll find that some ways of selling are much speedier than others.

The methods are selling through an estate agent, using an auction, selling to a fast home buyer, or selling on your own. In addition to some of these taking a long time, some also will charge you fees that are taken out of your sale proceeds immediately, which then results in you making less net profit.

Selling through an estate agent

When you use an estate agent to sell your home, you won’t have to do much because they will have the duty to craft a listing that describes the property and features photographs of it, and then advertise this listing in their office, online and in newspapers, and organise viewings. Estate agents will also hear offers from potential buyers, ideally through to completion.

In terms of speed, using an estate agent is one of the slower ways to sell a home, and you shouldn’t be surprised if your property remains on the market for over an entire year.

Remember also that estate agents will charge commission for the work that they do in finding a buyer for your property, and this fee will be taken out of the final sale proceeds. As a result, you might want to consider another method of selling if finding a buyer quick is your biggest need.

Using a property auction

Property auctions can be a gamble, because you do not know if your home will receive any bids, in which case it won’t sell and you’ll have to start the selling process all over, wasting more time. Nor do you know what price the property might sell at in the event it does attract bids.

This is not the slowest method of selling a freehold or leasehold flat or house, but it can still take at least several months. You’ll find that there’s a delay of at least several weeks or longer between when you list the property for sale and when the auction occurs. And if the home does find a buyer, then they usually have about 28 days to complete the purchase. Altogether, this means you are looking at the process of selling through an auction taking a few months.

And like estate agents, auctioneers also charge fees that will reduce your net profit because they’ll be taken out of the sale profit.

Selling to a fast home buyer

LDN Properties and other fast buyers have the funds available to make instant purchases of properties, so they don’t have to wait for many weeks or longer to first get approved for a mortgage to pay for the sale. This brings the total time taken for selling down to a handful of weeks, and that includes you receiving the proceeds and exchanging contracts.

In addition, these companies typically never charge any commission, because their belief is that owners deserve to keep all of the proceeds from selling their properties.

Another great reason to use a fast buyer is that they can quickly purchase properties, even when they have problems such as unenviable locations or physical damage. Quick buyers won’t be deterred, and LDN Properties has helped many very happy homeowners with selling dilapidated homes, vandalised flats, houses with solar panels, properties located by mobile phone masts, houses that have asbestos, flats that have extensive dry rot, properties that were built using non-standard construction material such as concrete, and many more situations.

Selling on your own

This is perhaps the hardest way to sell a home, because you’ll be responsible for all of the work involved, such as preparing and advertising the listing, organising viewings, and taking offers from potential buyers. It can be a large amount of time, effort and money to do this work, and is only suggested if you have experience selling a home, or know someone who does and can help.

Otherwise, you risk enduring a very stressful situation that could last for a very long time without finding a potential buyer, and your home might remain unsold for more than a full year.

The benefit of this method is that you won’t have to pay any commission to a third party for selling your home. However, this exact same outcome is achievable by simply using a fast buyer who can purchase your home fast with no fees.

Locations in and around South Acton where we operate

Acton Acton Green Bedford Park Brentford Chiswick Ealing East Acton Grove Park Gunnersbury Kew Strand on the Green West Acton

Postcode sectors in the South Acton area we cover

TW8 TW9 W3 W4 W5

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