Selling Your House via an Estate Agent

Selling via an Estate Agent is the most traditional method that we all know to sell a house.  Selling your house via an Estate Agent is loved by many as it is a straightforward way of handing over the management of your sale to someone else.

 The advantages of using an Estate Agent are:

* Marketing of your property to a wide audience in order to generate interest

* Management your potential buyers arranging viewings on your behalf and facilitating the buyer.

* They understand the selling and buying process and can provide you with advice.

The disadvantages of using an Estate Agent are:

* You will typically be required to pay in fees anything between 1 - 2+ % of your sale price to the agent for finding you a buyer.

 * They are not always 100% focused on selling your particular property if they have a lot of properties on their books

 * Selling via an Estate agent is not guaranteed if they cannot find a buyer, there will be no sale.

 * Selling via an Estate Agent is one of slowest ways to sell a house and can typically take anything from 4 months upwards to achieve a sale.

Selling Your House via A Property Buying Company

Selling your house via a Property Buying company is the little known secret that many people are using to sell house fast in today’s market.  There are many advantages of using this method however the main one is that they specialise in purchasing properties fast and you will not need to go through the pain, stress and delay of waiting on the open market.

The advantages of using a Property Buying Company are:

* They specialise in purchasing properties fast and are the quickest way to sell house fast in today’s market.

* Once they agree to purchase your house your sale is usually guaranteed and you know you have sold.

* Your sale process will be fully managed on both sides and they can also offer you advice on your situation taking the stress away from you.

* You will not be charged any selling fees for selling your property as any fees are paid for by the purchasing company.

The disadvantages of using a Property Buying Company are:

 * You will need to be flexible on the price that you are willing to accept as generally they will not offer the market value of your property.