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I've had experience trying to buy through Strike.
Found them pretty useless but that may have had a lot to do with the seller and their expectations.
Arranging the viewing was fine but it became difficult trying to negotiate a price as the agents didn't do anything and it became like dealing direct with the seller.
This may suit some but it became quite personal and stressful.
There was no single named point of contact.
When we pulled out of the sale it took a while to sort/confirm with agent and then the sellers chased us for "solicitor's fees" with a series of emails before our solicitor warned them off.
Presumably a traditional agent would have told them chasing for fees was pointless...
My impression when seeing someone has put up their property for sale through one of the online ones is they are doing it on the cheap and may be difficult to deal with.
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I went with a traditional estate agent when selling but wasn't too impressed with the online ones (Purple Bricks in particular) when I was trying to buy.
The local agents made an effort to get people in to view the places they had on the market whereas it was all passive with the online ones. I also found it a hassle booking viewings, some had really limited or non-existent timeslots and you could only get a booking by phoning the call centre, going through the options and then waiting for someone to call you back (which didn't always happen).
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We bought through Yopa. I'm not sure if it's to do with the package the seller selected, but Yopa didn't do a whole lot of sales progression stuff - it was all driven by us as we really needed a house and the sellers really needed to move. Happy accident. Fortunately we and the sellers were mostly adults and were happy to negotiate directly and we did, although on reflection the sellers were quite exposed and we could have driven an extremely hard bargain.
If you have a property in a high demand location, and you know what you are doing, and are motivated, I would say try it, the worst you can lose is time and maybe £1000 or whatever if you don't make a sale through it.
I'd be tempted to try it if we wanted to move but I would see it as an experiment.
Hi,
Has anyone had any experience selling their house through an online only estate agent (yoga, strike, doorsteps, etc)?
We’re looking to sell soon and looking at this route.