Questions to ask an estate agent when selling your Deptford home
When you’re ready to move house and sell your current property, you’ll have to decide between using a fast home buyer, an auctioneer, or an estate agent. The three different options have unique advantages compared to each other, and the right one will depend on your specific wants and needs.
One useful aspect of using an estate agent is that they’ll take care of the majority of work needed to sell your home, including creating and advertising a listing that describes your home and features photographs of it designed to make it appealing to potential buyers. They will also handle the scheduling and hosting of viewings where people will come to see the home.
Some property owners tell us they don’t like viewings as they take up a lot of time and can be quite intrusive. You might also have to wait a number of months, or possibly even more than a full year, before receiving a genuine offer from a buyer. And as described above, you’ll also have to pay the estate agent commission in the event that you are able to sell your home.
Should you still be interested in using an estate agent to sell your home, we recommend calling several companies and asking some of the below questions. These queries, along with our insight into what the answers could reveal, might be useful in determining whether you still want to try finding a buyer through an estate agent or if you’d like to use an alternate method.
Some estate agents will give you an overly optimistic price because they are eager to get your business selling your home, even if they truly know that a sale will only happen at a lower price. By asking this question to multiple estate agents you can take an average of the quotes that you receive and find out a more realistic price for your property before you sell it.
Another critical question, because the fees that estate agents can charge often vary based on your home’s final sale value, but might be higher or lower with certain companies. You need to know the level of commission before you sell your property, so that you can develop an accurate budget for the sale and ensure you’ll still make a profit.