Owning your own home

Try this

https://www.epcregister.com/reportSearchAddressByPostcode.html

Have a look at the old one, should give you a bit where indicates the potential improvements. If what you have done bumps you up a bracket might be worth shelling out for a new EPC.

My one basically said "replace light bulbs with energy saving" and that's it...

Cool - you've improved it then... Up to you whether you get it made official with a certificate. We changed the windows to double glazing, but left the EPC as our EA/PB advised that its rarely looked at. Are the LEDs colour changing?

out of interest, what are you selling and where you off to? We are thinking of coming to Hither Green / Lee, but have held off looking properly until we accept an offer on our flat.

Are the LEDs colour changing?

fuck no!

In certain areas of London that is classed as a design feature

And these reviews: https://www.allagents.co.uk/purplebricks­/

they wouldn't be as motivated as an EA that gets a % commission when completing the sale

I think I will go with PB

fry.jpg

Some EA just asked me to watch this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tW4t33UYHvc

lol

Why is the beeb running this shit? if it was any other channel I'd imagine PR money ..

That actually makes me tell all EAs to fuck off and go with an online service. Cunts.

That's my view. Either do it yourself for £500, or get a real estate agent and cough up a few grand. The Purple Bricks middle ground isn't worth considering.

@amey I ended up using PB after treating each EA coming around to value the place as a job interview, if they want loads of money they need to prove the know the market, or will actually work for it. The PB agent I got had the best price strategy, knows the area well and was the cheapest.

All other estate agents will chat shit about PB, I had other EA calling me every other day once they knew I was using PB and bad mouthing PB and offering to buy me out of my contract but then would charge me eventually loads more than PB in the commission. If you can avoid the loan for the up front fee there is not too much of downside of PB I think.

I paid the extra for him to do viewings, as some potential buyers don't like dealing with the seller, and the agent can do all the admin. Also found when it came to offers people prefer to talk to an agent. Then I sold my place in under a month, so it worked out well, maybe I got lucky

^this.

My PB agent was called Gary. He picked up the phone every time I rang, came around a couple of times, took decent pictures, wrote a good description and advised on how to deal with the complexities of leasehold (which if you scroll back isn't going so well, but that's not to do with him).

We did the viewings and he did all the negotiations. It wen't well. I don't understand what a kid in a branded mini is going to do better?

I don't understand what a kid in a branded mini is going to do better?

Their pitch is that they have a bigger database of prospects, and that they make it easier for prospects to see your place.

I'm not sure how this stacks up. I've had an agent working on my place for eight weeks and I've had one offer well below the asking.

So I need to do something different. Might look at PB etc.

Fair opinions/reviews @Sebbb and @ollyshenton

I had another EA pitch it to me using this: But we have so many properties for sale in your area so we can take prospective buyers on multiple viewings, PB can't do that.

I call bullshit because the properties can't be in the same range or with the same agent.

While I do this I am trying to negotiate further with a local EA who wanted 1.25% with either 1% and exclusivity for 4 weeks or 1.25% and exclusivity of 2 weeks.

But we have so many properties for sale in your area so we can take prospective buyers on multiple viewings, PB can't do that

That benefits the agent, not you (much)

Depends really, I know our agent was bringing people round to our house who'd been looking at flats in a similar price range.

Yep - "Please can you waste my afternoon taking me around places you can't sell that don't meet my criteria...?"

All sorted now. For some reason I had a humidistat and switch installed when it was fitted. With a slight tweak of the wiring the humidistat can control the hard on/off with the switch doing the high/low fan speed.

Who offered 1% commission? I need to get mine on the market officially. Mrs Sparky is keen to go asap...

Already looking at moving somewhere further out in order to get more bedrooms. Like fuck am I having kids in the current place.

EA stories are like arseholes: everyone's got one and some of them are shitty. Having bought three and sold two in my time, I would take a local independent firm over a national company every time. Doubt I would sell with Purple Ronnie or whatever. Last one we sold at 10% over asking and paid less than 1% in EA fees as we negotiated a flat fee independent of the sale price. Guess Purple Ronnie might have done that but who knows? I believe it happened because the guys we used knew their shit, knew the market and knew how to hype up the sale (rightly or wrongly).

Where are you? If SE, try Rocodells.

I bottled it and went with EA solely because this one was really friendly and nice. Did not bad mouth PB, in fact when I told him I am considering PB he said its not a bad idea and obviously you know the pros and cons.

Still 1% aint bad I guess. 4 weeks, lets see what happens!

Oh yeah he is also a cyclist, same one @Sparky meeting this evening. Does track at HH.

we were considering PB, went with local EA at 1.25%. nice people, know the area. Their usp is they advertise your property at all the branches in the catchment area, whichever branch makes the sale gets the commission. gave us the best sales pitch, which included coming pre-armed with what other gaffs on the street went for. they popped round on the weekend to take pics and have already sent us the draft advert. unfortunately it's so riddled with inaccuracies it's like it's for a different house. not a great start. still, just a draft.

we saw a place in catford on the weekend we'd take in a heartbeat - not quite having our place on the market yet meant the seller gtfo, fair enough - doubt it's going to stick around.

it has two bathrooms. that's like as many as the queen has.

You fucking sellout