These pages have be created to sell this property privately over the internet. With a little help from newspaper and magazine advertising to maximise the effect and after several weeks of tweaking the site, using our experience of web development, and by adding links to other sites, we have found a very successful formula for getting the site seen by the people who are genuinely interested in looking at this property.

It is the right combination of search engine optimisation tools and advertisements on other sites and in the media that has started to generate the considerable amount of interest we are now seeing. So, we have decided to offer this service to anyone else who realises the benefits of selling privately.

The Benefits of Selling Privately

We sold successfully in May 2006 and both the new owners and ourselves are very happy! We all saved money and, for us, the selling process was much simpler without the involvement of Estate Agents

Estate Agents will charge anything from 1.5% (if your lucky) to 3% commission for their services. This would amount to around £3,000.00 for a small property to around £15,000.00 for a large family home or considerably more if you lucky enough to own a large prestigious house. Selling your home privately can save all of this for a relatively small amount of money and a little effort. This web site would have cost in the order of £1,500.00 to create and the newspaper and magazine advertising, which is essential to sell the house and promote the web site has cost another £700.00. So we have effectively spent about £2,200.00 to get this far - saving about 9,000.00 in estate agents fees. Interest is grew rapidly and after only a few viewings we had a serious offer and in a matter of weeks the house was sold. The intersting thing was that all the viewings were serious viewings. Estate Agents tend to send people to look even if they know the buyer won't be interested - it makes them look like they're doing a good job - but we know better. (knowing what we know now, we could have saved even more)

You may have been with an estate agent or two for several months and are now faced with the prospect of dropping the price further and even going with multiple estate agents. When we found ourselves in this position we realised that we would could face throwing away £25K to £30k or more by relying on estate agents and dropping the price, so by doing the work ourselves, we could afford to lower the selling price a bit, take a lower offer to speed the whole process up and still be better off - we were not disappointed. We also haven't had to rely on anyone else for help, provide information or give feed-back. We have been in complete control - a bit more work but a much more pleasant and successful experience.

How can we can help you

If you are interested in selling privately we would be delighted to help by offering a web site and advertising package to suit your needs. Now that we have done the work here and know what needs to be done to maximise exposure, you could have your house on the market from around £900.00. Clearly the bigger the house and the more work you want us to do the more it would cost but we can discuss this and find a solution to suit your needs. A sale can never be guaranteed as this depends on market forces, the size and value of the property, the location and so on. But if you're prepared to put in a little work your self you could be saving thousands.

The big difference between selling privately (on your own or working with us) and working with an Estate Agent is that we just provide the tools for you to sell the house yourself. You have talk to the buyers, show them round and negotiate the selling price (which should never be underestimated) and ensure that the buyers are in a position to buy but the cost savings to you are considerable! Once you pass over the responsibility of making the sale to an agent you agree to pay their enormous commission.

Have a think about it and call us when you are ready to take the plunge!

Alan Meeks at Visitech Design ... on 01243 389883 or 07802 361 662
or email me at... housesales@visitechdesign.com