If your looking to sell your house, and you are considering the best route to take to get the best deal possible then your at the right place – The world of estate agency and house sales in the UK is changing fast and for the better.  Visum-Sales online estate agents are at the fore front of the estate agency revolution enabling you to sell your property for just £29.00+VAT, no other fees, commissions or strings.

Cost of selling your house vs standard of service

One of the first things to consider is the cost. Without sacrificing quality over a cheap offer, using an online agent is easily the cheaper alternative. There are a few reasons for this. Firstly, online agent’s fees are a lot less than those on the high street. They need to be, in order to create competition, but also a lot of the process is automated which is less expensive to run. They also have a big advantage in that anyone from anywhere in the UK can access their website and list their property. As a result, they do not charge higher commission like a some high street agents which again keeps the costs down.

Advertise your property, no matter where it is located

With an online estate agent you get access to the whole buyer pool – Visum-Sales advertise on all the leading property portals like rightmove and primelocation and 100′s of others putting your property in front of millions of potential buyers every month, there are few if any high street estate agents who can offer the same coverage, thus they rely largely on local advertising and passing trade.  Buyers can find your property anywhere in the world online 24 hours a day 365 days a year.

Convenience

So, we’ve assessed both the cost and the marketing aspects of using an online agent. But what about another key advantage – flexibility? When it comes down to it, an online alternatives really are the kings of convenience for a number of reasons. From the beginning of the process to your property being on a display and accessible to view by buyers can take as little as 24 hours on the web. However, contrast this with a high street store that may take as long as two weeks to place your property on the market and you realise that a lot of valuable time has been missed. Maybe your ideal buyer has now gone somewhere else… Either way, shortening the process will pay dividends.

As well as the quicker process, buyers can enquire and book a viewing for your home at any time, day or night. They don’t have to rely on the high street agent being open, or turning up only to find it closed for lunch and going elsewhere. As well as being convenient from the buyer’s perspective, you can organise all of this without leaving the comfort of your home, and a lot of websites also offer options to view stats, such as how many hits your property has.

Online Estate Agents – the revolution

Internet based agents may be newer to the game, but it doesn’t mean they are second best. As discussed, they offer many advantages over the traditional high street agents and can save you time and money. If you’re thinking of selling, just think… within 24 hours buyers could be queuing up to view your home and make an attractive offer and save you thousands at the same time.

The revolution is happening, do you know any high street insurance agents now? Unlikely, it’s all online and the estate agency business is moving in the same direction, offering more flexibility, greater savings, wider audience and more choice.

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Why is it so important to advertise your property for sale on rightmove?

Rightmove.co.uk lists millions of Property for sale from across the UK and ranks as one of the most popular online web portals. For example over 1.2 million properties were listed on Rightmove in the last 12 months. It is the most dominant and influential tool a vendor can use today to advertise their property for sale. Rightmove is the most visited property website in the UK, having around 800 million page views a month, which is a simply astonishing figure.

So are you thinking of advertising your property for sale on Rightmove? You can’t do it – you’re required to sell your property via an online estate agent or a local high street estate agent in order to get your property marketed for sale on Rightmove . Rightmove do not permit private sellers to advertise directly, neither do they allow private house sales websites to advertise property for sale on Rightmove directly (such as My Online Estate Agent, Tepilo, The Little House Company, Houseweb or Houseladder).

Rightmove’s terms of business dictate that an estate agent should visit each property to ensure the description, photographs and floor plan of a property comply with the Property Misdescriptions (PMA) Act 1991, The Property Misdescriptions Act is  a piece of legislation intended to ensure that estate agents’ property descriptions are accurate and acceptable. That way, even though Rightmove are not estate agents themselves, they guarantee a quality of their advertised properties for sale.

So apart from  benefiting  from Rightmove‘s extensive exposure that your property will get by advertising on it (plus the  all the other top UK property websites via an estate agent), and the quality of your property advert itself, what other benefits are there to selling your property with an estate agent rather than selling it privately?

The answer is ‘not a lot’ really. They will arrange viewings, but because accompanying a viewing costs them time and money they will often make excuses not to turn up, leaving you to show the interested prospect around. When they do come, they often don’t know a great deal about the property and do little more than open the door and say ‘This is the kitchen…’, ‘This is the lounge….’ etc.

They can arrange conveyancing and a mortgage, but in today’s world this is as simple as browsing a website or picking up a phone.

And for the meagre amount of work they do, estate agents come at a HIGH cost, charging on average 1.8% (around about £4300 based on the UK average house price) to sell a property, and quite frankly their fees are unreasonable. The alternative is to use a low cost online estate agent like as Visum-Sales online estate agent that has national coverage on Rightmove and carries out all of the above for a much cheaper estate agents fee of just £75.00 + vat (including our home visit, setting up the advert and sending to the various portals, and the first month’s advertising included), and then £29 plus VAT for any subsequent months of advertising needed.

So if you are a switched on person you will be acutely aware of the saving potential – if you price your propery right you could sell it for £75, and even if it takes a few months to sell you will have only spent a couple of hundred pounds.  Our charges are a flat rate reflecting our costs and work involved in creating and maintaining the ad, dealing with enquiries etc, which are roughly the same for every property regardless of its size or price. So the more expensive your property is, the greater your saving compared to using a high street agent will be.

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Over 90% of all property searches are now performed using the Internet.  Our property sales advertising gets you  in front of around 1 BILLION monthly searches made across sites like Rightmove, Primelocation and Globrix – that’s a huge audience, and leads to the average sale time being 42 days.

 Sell Property Online

It has never been as simple to sell property online as it is now with Visum-Sales online estate agents – you simply create your free account, enter the details of your property and press a button to instruct us, we will take care of everything else. We advertise property online on the largest portals like rightmove, primelocation, zoopla, globrix, findaproperty and many more getting you in front of a huge target audience, all for just £29.00 a month with no large upfront and NO COMMISSION payable on completion of sale like a traditional agent.

To sell property online you have to use an agent if you want your property to appear on websites like Rightmove - there is no getting around that. As a private house seller you simply cannot advertise on the large property advertising portals – they do not allow it. But just because you have to use an estate agent that does not mean you have to pay high commissions and high fees - instruct Visum-Sales to sell your property now and you would be amazed at how little it costs and the thousands of pounds you save.

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Estate Agent Fees are usually around 1.5% + 20% VAT – on an averge price house of £200,000 that works out at £3600, consider that against £29.00 that Visum-Sales charge and it’s not hard to see why we are one of the UK’s fastest growing online estate agents

 Estate Agent Fees – High Street Agents

Most high street estate agents charge anything from 1% to 2%.  An average fee is 1.5%.  These fees are plus VAT.  The average house price in the UK is some £200,000 – so it’s not hard to see that it can be very costly to sell your house through a high street agent – in fact it would cost £3,600 on averages!

Estate Agents Fees – Most online estate agents

Visum-Sales are not the only online estate agent, there are a few others out there, but they all price themselves very similiar, either a large up front fee of around £300+VAT or a combination of a smaller upfront fee and an element of commission payable on sale of around 0.5%+VAT – both options require you to either find a good sized sum of money up front or still pay commission on sales.

Estate Agents Fees – Visum-Sales

Visum-Sales are a unique online estate agent – we charge no large upfront fee and no commission on sale.  We charge £75.00 for the first month to include the home visit, measurements, photos and writting it all up and preparing your advert for approval by you.  It also includes the advertising fee to have your property advertised on rightmove, primelocation, zoopla, globrix and all the major portals that generate some 180 million property searches a month.  We then charge just £29.00 a month to keep your property advertised.  When you consider the average time to sell a property is 42 days you will be laughing all the way to the bank.

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When selling your house privately, or through an agent it is very important to prepare your house for sale, to looks it’s best, our guide will get you on the right track .

 A Guide To Preparing Your House For Sale

Whilst much of what we are about to say may seem like common sense, many people still do not always do it and miss pieces out.  When trying to sell your house you need to remember this is a SALE and you need to be a sales person – this means ensuring your product is best dressed for a buyer.

• Clean – it goes without saying but your house should be clean and tidy, ensure the morning dishes are washed up and put away, beds are made, floors vacced, surfaces clean and tidy.  You would not believe how many houses we have been into that are not – whilst some people see past it just as many do not!  A clean fresh smelling home is inviting.
• De-clutter – If you have not used it for 6 months do you need it? It’s a good time for a clear out.  You are trying to portray an area of space and calm not getting people to tip toe around your hundred tea pots on the mantle.  If you cannot part with your cherished objects then simply box some bits up ready for the move.  You need to get people to visualise themselves and their belongings and show the space.
• De-personalise – Sure, you have a stunning family, beautiful children, but, you need to getting your buyers to project themselves onto the home, visualise their family not yours – put away the personal pictures and wall full of portraits, nice neutral pictures, no really personal belongings.
• Finish those jobs – We all do it, start something and don’t quite finish it, but now is the time to ensure those little snagging jobs are done – people will notice!
• Neutralise - Again, you need to let potential buyers visualise themselves in your house, if your living room is bright green, that might suit you and your furniture, but, it might not quite go with the buyers furniture, nice cream, neutral colour schemes are the order of the day, not only do they give a blank canvas but help a room look larger and less closed in.

Whilst you are doing the above you should also get your property advertised, it is unlikely you will get viewings in the first day or two so get it advertised today and that will spur you on to do the list!

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There really is an alternative to the private houses sales dilemma - allowing you great service, great property advertising, great expertise at your disposal BUT without the high commissions usually charged by high street estate agents.

Private House Sales – the online estate agent

Visum-Sales online estate agents are a real alternative for private house sales – we offer all the usual estate agency services including great advertising, property particulars, photos, floor plans,EPCs, enquiries but without any commission due on sale.  We simply charge £29.00 a month so there are no high upfront fees.

Visum-Sales online estate agents have been providing an alternative way to sell your house online for a number of years now and have provided our clients with thousands in savings over normal agency fees.

Why would you want to pay more? What services do you really get through using a normal high street estate agent over an internet estate agent that is worth thousands more in fees for?

Selling your house successfully and fast is all about getting exposure to your property, that comes with advertising your property as far and wide as possible – and nobody pushes your property ad further – some 80 million searches a month!

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Selling your house privately with Visum-Sales online estate agents may seem a contradiction, yes, we are an estate agent, so, are you really selling your house privately if your using an internet estate agent?  Yes and no…

Selling Your House Privately

Wether selling your house privately or using a high street estate agent the key to a successful sale is advertising.  When trying to sell your house privately this is often an area you will fail in, private house sellers cannot advertise on the countries leading property portals like rightmove.co.uk and primelocation – so where does this leave a private house seller?

Well, with Visum-Sales online estate agents we will advertise your property for sale on all the leading portals like rightmove, we do all the property particulars, photos and arrange everything, all the enquiries come to us and we help with arranging viewing appointments (that you take care of) and we are here to help in all aspects such as negotiations, legal aspects and any area you or the buyer requires help with.

So, selling your house privately is possible, for just £29.00 a month and no commission to pay on sale, your property will be advertised on rightmove and all the major portals.  You remain in control of the process so is as good as selling your house privately but with the support and not the cost of an estate agent.

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We hope you like our new design!  We listened to what our customers were saying and the general view was that the old site people found it a little hard to get straight to action and advertise their property for sale – there was no clear way to just get on with it.  Also the old black and white site was a bit hard on the eyes.

Our new site is vibrant, fresh and we hope more usable.  We have also taken this opportunity to move our property help and advice over to our professional property blog – Visum-Property.co.uk – which has all the great articles on renting and selling your property, guides, tips, tricks, legislation, documents and lots of other help.

It will take us a little time to roll out the new design to all our website properties – but it is a programme we are working on.

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Floor plans are not only for posh properties. If you instruct us we can produce a beautiful full colour floorplan for you like the one below for only £49 plus VAT.

Over 75% of buyers believe a floorplan is essential on a property for sale. Whether you agree with that statement or not there is no doubt that a detailed floor plan allows browsers to instantly picture the layout of your property in their mind and start to imagine how their life would fit into it.

When creating your property advert you can instruct us to create the floorplan for you when we visist.

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Our great new site is 100% FREE for the 1st 3 months for private people and agents to advertise property across France – you can list both sales and rental properties.

So, if your renting out or selling your UK property for a move to France – then we have a great new site for you to look for your dream French home.

It will of course be some time before the site is built up, but, we are going to actively market the site and have no doubt it will be a huge success very quickly.

So, if you have or are looking for a French Chateaux or a French Chambre D’hotes, a B&B, a Gite complex maybe or just that perfect family home then French Property Advertising has them all.

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