What is the best way to quickly sell your house in Hacton?
There are three main options for selling your Hacton house or flat: using an estate agent, using a property auctioneer, or using a quick home buyer like LDN Properties. Depending on your specific priorities when selling, each method has its own pros and cons. Understanding the various approaches in more detail can help with making your decision.
When you use an estate agent to sell your home, they will handle the work of putting together a listing which features text detailing the property’s rooms, size and other features and includes photographs of the interior and exterior. They’ll advertise this listing in their offices, online, in local newspapers and elsewhere. And if anyone shows an interest in your home, the estate agent will handle the viewing.
But some homeowners say that viewings are intrusive and time-consuming. A further negative aspect of this method of selling is that it can take a number of months before receiving a serious offer from a buyer, or maybe even more than a year. And you’ll have to pay the estate agent commission for their work, which will reduce the overall net profit you can make from the sale.
Auctioneers will also do most of the hard work of selling your home, including creating the listing and advertising it, and hosting the auction. And if many people want to buy your home, they will try to outbid each other and this could drive the final sale price very high and give you a decent profit. Auctions also give some certainty about selling, as a winning bid is a legally binding agreement to buy your property that you could enforce through litigation if necessary.
But there is zero guarantee that your home will receive any bids, in which case it will stay unsold and you’ll have to start over with the process of selling your property. You’ll also be asked to set a reserve price, which is the lowest value at which you’re willing to sell your home. Be sure that this amount will still be sufficient for you after the auctioneer takes their commission, because there is always the possibility that you only receive a single bid at the reserve amount.
There can also be some delays selling this way, with a wait between the day on which you list your home for sale and when the auction takes place. Even if your home sells, you’ll typically have to wait about 28 days for the sale to be completed. And the commission that the auctioneer will charge you for their work will reduce the net sale profit from your home.
LDN Properties is a fast home buyer with experience buying houses and flats in London, including the district of Hacton in the east London borough of Havering, which has a mix of commercial and residential properties and green spaces such as Heath Park and Hylands Park. We have been buying homes since 2003 and have many happy customers.
We can finalise the purchase of most homes often within a few short weeks, which is much speedier than using an estate agent or an auctioneer. And we also promise that unlike those other methods of selling, we will never make you pay any fees when selling your home to us.
