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Estate Agents and Selling your Property

onestopview — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 12:10:43 +0000

Finding a good estate agent to market your house can make all the differnce in how quicly you sell. A good question to ask is where they will advertise your property, online, newspapers etc. Also with comissions varying greatly between agents find out what you are getting extra for the higher comission you will have to pay. Independent estate agents can be a good option as they work for themselves they want the sale and the money it brings. Going with a well known chain of estate agents doesn’t always mean because you’ve got the well known name you will get a good service. Remember that some employers will be on a salary regardless of how many properties they sell and are only interested in reaching targets. So you could well end up showing your property round many times to people not really wanting your sort of property or not even in a position to buy. So it’s well worth weighing up does your estate agent really want to sell your property or is the company more interested in reaching certain targets.

House Prices set to Crash

onestopview — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 10:28:37 +0000

We were promised there would be no repeat of the Boom and Bust situation in England. Yet here we are after many years of a boom of over inflated growth of property prices that a bust is sure to follow. Property prices are so high that first time buyers can’t get on the property ladder. Mortgage companies have been forced to rethink lending policies, after all who can realistically afford to buy a property with only 3 times their salary. With 50 year mortgages coming into place how would you like your inheritance to be a mortgage rather than a house. Now obviously with the credit crunch many will argue that the mortgage companies were in the wrong to lend. All we are hearing now is repossessions are going up, house prices are coming down, recession is on the way. The global economic situation is very on edge it’s only a matter of time before we experience the bust again. But surely all the house price crash is set to do is put property prices back to a sensible accurate price making owning a home a possibilty for all.