I’m looking at putting my abode on the market soon and saw an ad for purplebricks an online house selling place. Sounds like a good idea so why should I walk into a bricks and mortar estate agents?

Anyone else used online agents?

Next door used PurpleBricks to sell – property was on the market less than 7 days and sold for asking price.

This may or may not have happened with a bricks and mortar agency.

Sellers were very happy with the service and saved about £4k in agency fees.

Interesting (?) anecdote- the pretty blonde lady in the Purple Bricks TV advert used to live in my town, and in her teens and 20s was a formidable MTB racer.

Our current house is one with PurpleBricks. We’ll see how it goes after-sale, but before-sale it’s effectively the same in my opinion – unless you’ve a million pound mansion or something else “specialist” most buyers use rightmove/zoopla/etc and so PB is sufficient.

Note that you have to do the viewings unless you pay more, and then you’re dependent on the local team for viewing availability.

cheers folks, I’ve no problem showing people around so thats ok 😀

We recently moved, one property we viewed was up for sale via PB. To book a viewing you had to select a time slot online then wait to hear back to see if it had been accepted.

Every time we selected a time slot we’d be told via email a few hours later our request hadn’t been accepted. It took three or four goes to get a time slot that we agreed to.

It took the best part of a day to sort what a 5 minute call to the estate agent would have taken.

As someone selling with PB that’s the seller being a fool: you can set “always available” times (I work from home, so 10am-6pm is always available) and when rejecting a viewing you can propose an alternative. Or you’re given the phone number so they could call you and arrange a time.