We completed on the Sale of our flat within 2 months of it putting it for sale with SellMyHome. Throughout the whole process, Tom, Will and the rest of the team, delivered us outstanding service, whilst also saving us about £10k in estate agency fees.
We initially met with 5 well-known agents, supposed “local experts”, who produced an mystifyingly large range of valuations. We were hugely unimpressed and neither of us could see how they could possibly justify their fees of 1.5% to 2.5% in an age when people rely on portals like Rightmove. The SellMyHome team steered us to a realistic guide price and organised for fantastic photographs to be taken.
As soon as we went live, requests for viewings came flooding in and within a couple of days we had our first offer. I did the viewings myself and I would strongly recommend it, as no one else knows your home as well as you do. (On our hunt for a new house, I lost track of the number of times that an agent answered a question with “I’m not exactly sure but I’ll come back to you on that”… and then never did). Through skill and tenacity, Tom managed to get the original offer increased twice until it finally reached a level that we were happy to accept, only a week after it had gone on the market. Moving from there to “Exchanged” is a very nerve-wracking period but regardless of whatever issue arose (and there were many), Tom calmly kept everything on track.
On the flipside, the house we bought was sold by a High St agent and the service we received as buyers was fine, but was it worth paying 1.5% for? Absolutely, categorically, 100% no!!!
The traditional estate agency model is hopelessly out of date and is in dire need of a shake-up. SellMyHome are the company to do that and I would recommend them to everyone.