Route to market?

There are two traditional routes, market using a REALTOR or selling yourself. And a key decision maker in this decision is whether you want to quickly sell your House or you have a lot of time on your hands. You should also consider each method than it would cost and how much time you have available.

If you use a real estate agent, will be more expensive but the REALTOR you take responsibility for advertising, showing potential buyers round and negotiate a price for the House. And if you want to quickly sell your House then REALTORS will get maximum exposure in the shortest time possible and advise you on the need to drop the price to push the sale. Whereas if you want to find a buyer yourself, it will be cheaper, but you will need time to get all these agreements and dealing with all problems and find better ways for marketing properties.

What price to ask?

If you decide to find a buyer yourself, you must first decide what price you want to ask for the property. Many estate agents free evaluations so you can always arrange for two or more local real estate agents provide such information. If you want a formal evaluation, could organize a real estate agent to provide this, but it would be necessary to pay a fee.

You will find the cost of homes watching the local newspapers locally, real estate agents windows and similar homes in the area.

Before you decide the price, you might want to consider:-

making repairs or if this would make it easier to sell the House decoration
organizing for a poll if you think there are problems that could affect the value of the House, for instance, one roof in a bad state of repair.

Also worth keeping in mind that it is normal practice for a potential buyer to offer a lower price for the House that the seller is asking. You should therefore allow for this by setting the price slightly higher than the amount you wish to obtain.

Other options

There is, however, another option for the sale of houses that occurred in the last year or so in response to the banking crisis and it is now more difficult for people to get mortgages.

New creative solutions have been established, so you are more likely to get the price you want and sell your home fast , rather than keep dropping it on how real estate agents usually advise.




Tim Mason has been an investor and advisor for 12 years and has helped many homeowners to get the maximum value for the property. With the downturn of the economy and the difficulty of obtaining mortgages, has now developed new creative solutions so that the seller can get the price he wants, sell the House quickly and first time buyers can get on the property ladder.