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anyone used one?
They seem to be significantly cheaper than the high street agencies.
Used UPad to list a flat to rent. They do a range of services - the cheapest being £99 to place your property in the main website places like Right Moove & Zoopla. Within 2 days we had 8 viewings & 8 people interested in renting.
They were really helpful - in phoning up to ensure everything was OK & offering useful advice.
We were originally going to use a high street estate agent - but when he got his phone out to take the pictures - that was enough for me. We did take our own photos & wrote our own description - but then can arrange this too along with getting professional floor plans done & energy certificates.
Although it was a rental I would recommend them without hesitation for a house sale etc....
We used one based in Edinburgh to buy our house. £695 all in, for all the conveyancing. It was in the region of £2000 if we'd used an actual property solicitor.
Highly recommended.
I used housesimple (base package - at time 195+VAT for photos, floorplan and on websites for 6 months)
(*Need to be happy doing own viewings and haggling and 'idiot detection' and writing own house advert text)
Just doing the online thing with my house....
http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/online-estate-agent-housr-network-the-adventure-begins
I have a discount code for them if want, email me.
We used one based in Edinburgh to buy our house. £695 all in, for all the conveyancing. It was in the region of £2000 if we'd used an actual property solicitor.
As a caveat to this, we just had a house sale fall through because of the dismal performance of the buyer's online solicitor. Our solicitor could never get hold of anyone, they were crap at getting any docs done or sent out. They failed to give our buyers any decent advice, so they kept missing things out, and in the end their buyer (who was an investor buying their house to rent out) pulled out 2 days before we were meant to exchange. So they saved some money, but then lost what they'd put in and everyone else in the chain is a grand or two down.
So yes, cheaper, but for a reason.
Used openrent.co.uk to let a place, worked well, wouldn't use an agent now and cheaper for the tennants to. Would give it a bash for sales too