Owning your own home

We sold our house with Purplebricks, albeit not in London.

Our thoughts:

We spoke to both PurpleBricks and two standard high street agents, PBs valuation sat exactly in between the two high street valuations.

I loved the online dashboard that they supplied which meant you could see how many views on each platform your ad has, as well as things like managing price and the description yourself (once the agent had written the ad)

I found managing viewings myself really straightforward, and meant less delays in to and fro. Also having direct contact with buyers helped move things along, as they were relatively nervous first time buyers, they were able to directly ask me questions, and I was able to nudge them as needed

We sold within 2 weeks of the property going on the market, for very nearly the asking price, and more than we expected.

The local agent where we were was a proper estate agent, with 10 years plus experience, which we were able to pretty much verify.

Our final thoughts were that we would use them again with 2 provisos;

1. The house we were selling was relatively straightforward and not at the top end of the market for the size and location
   
2. The local agent knows his arse from his elbow, should be straight forward to work out...
   
   

but that's just our experience