Frequently Asked Questions.....
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My property is already on the market with
an estate agent, can I still advertise on your site? |
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Do I still need a Home Information Pack if
I sell privately? |
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I have seen your prices for the HIP and EPC,
do I need to pay for the advertising seperately? |
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I already have a HIP as I am already with
an estate agent, can I still advertise on your site? |
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Will I still have to pay the estate agent
commission if I sell privately? |
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Do I legally need an estate agent to sell
my property? |
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You charge just a one off fee to advertise,
are there any other charges when I sell? |
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How does buying from a private seller differ
from going through an estate agent? |
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How do I value my property? |
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What do I do when I have accepted an offer
on my property? |
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Should I inform my estate agent that I am
advertising to sell privately? |
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How do I find a solicitor to deal with the
sale/purchase of my property? |
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I know FOR SALE and TO LET boards are a great
advert, can I have one outside my property? |
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Why would I want a private sale board and
not an estate agent board outside my property? |
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I need a HIP for the marketing of my property,
can you supply it? |
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I still have a few question I would like
answers to can you help? |
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Property for sale
in Northampton |
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My property is already
on the market with an estate agent, can I still advertise on your site? |
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Yes you can still place an advert on our site.
Because we are an advertising site and not estate agents you can advertise with
us and sell privately even if you have signed a sole agency contract with an estate
agent, when you sell privately you will not have to pay anyone any commission, this
will save you thousands of pounds.
You can read what the Office of Fair Trading says about private sales
'here' |
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Do I still need a Home Information Pack
if I sell privately? |
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Yes, selling privately does not exclude you from needing
a HIP, contact us and we will arrange your HIP for you. |
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I have seen your prices for the HIP and
EPC, do I need to pay for the advertising seperately? |
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Yes, if we have supplied your Home Information Pack or Energy
Performance Certificate you can place your advert and we will put a link
to your HIP in the advert before it goes live, You can advertise to sell your property
for 2 years for only £80. |
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I already have a HIP as I am already with
an estate agent, can I still advertise on your site? |
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Yes, if you are already with an agent and have your HIP
you can still advertise on our site. You should check with
your agent though to find out what they will charge you for your HIP if you were
to sell privately or if you wanted to change agent, even if they say the HIP is
'free', they will probably charge you because they haven't had thousands in commission
from you to cover the cost. |
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Will I still have to pay the estate agent
commission if I sell privately? |
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You need to check that you have signed a Sole Agency or
Multi Agency contract with your estate agent, this allows you to sell your property
privately and you will not have to pay them any commission. You should
not sign a Sole Selling contract if you wish to sell privately and we
would not advise you to sign a Ready, willing and able purchaser contract either,
even though you could still sell privately and not pay the agent any commission. |
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Do I legally need an estate agent to sell
my property? |
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No, estate agent only introduce buyers to sellers and vice
versa, they serve no legal function. |
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You charge just a one off fee to advertise,
are there any other charges when I sell? |
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No, all you pay is the one price for advertising, there
is no commission or any other charges to pay at anytime. |
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How does buying from a private seller differ
from going through an estate agent? |
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You are dealing directly with the person selling the property,
no hard sell from an agent, you will be in control of all questions and answers
and put your offer directly to the seller. You will deal directly with your solicitor
and will not have to chase the agent to relay information about how the process
is progressing, it is faster and a much more civilised way to purchase a property. |
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How do I value my property? |
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There are some sites on our 'useful links' page that will
help you to value your property, you could use a professional valuation service,
some estate agents offer a free valuation or you could ask 2 or 3 estate agents
to come and value your property with a view to selling it through them, but you
should get more than one estimate as not all estate agents are legally able to value
a property, they are just giving you an educated guess and tend to over value properties
to get you to sign a contract with them..... then slowly talk you in to dropping
the price to what it should be. You should look around your local area at recent
sale prices and estate agent windows. You should also remember that your property
is only worth what someone else is willing to pay for it, don't be tempted to price
yourself out of the market. Most streets/properties have a ceiling price, that is
a maximum price that a property would be worth in a specific location. You should
allow room in the price for negotiation but not so high as to put off potential
purchasers. Remember, on a house of say, £280,000 sold privately and not through an estate agent at
2% commission, you will be saving £5600+Vat = £6580 so, by selling privately through
our site you will have a good buffer zone to start off with. |
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What do I do when I have accepted an offer
on my property? |
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The process is exactly the same as if you were using an
estate agent. Once you have accepted an offer you exchange your solicitors contact
information with the buyers solicitor and they will deal with all the legal work
required. |
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Should I inform my estate agent that I
am advertising to sell privately? |
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This is a good idea so there aren't any misunderstandings
over commission, they will probably try to dissuade you for obvious reasons but
it will probably make your agent work a bit harder to find a buyer.... they wouldn't
want to miss out on all that commission. |
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How do I find a solicitor to deal with
the sale/purchase of my property |
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You will easily find a solicitor to deal with all the legal
requirements by looking in your local telephone book or through websites such as
www.thomsonlocal.com or
www.yell.com
or similar means
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I know FOR SALE and TO LET boards are a
great advert, can I have one outside my property? |
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Yes, We have professionally made boards that are the same
size and quality of the estate agent boards you will have seen, if you would like one simply
phone or email us with the contact number you want showing on the board and the delivery
address, we will then have it made and deliver it to you. |
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Why would I want a private sale board and
not an estate agent board outside my property? |
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Why let estate agents advertise outside your property just
so they can sit back and wait for the phones to ring, make a viewing and then charge
you a fortune, With a Move Greener Private Sale board outside your property with
your contact number on, you can take the call and you can do the viewing,
if you remove the expensive middle man and sell privately it will save you thousands. |
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I need a HIP for the marketing of my property,
can you supply it? |
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If you need a HIP or
EPC, simply email or phone us and we will send you a form to fill in,
when we have received your completed form we will contact you to confirm the details and
proceed with the HIP or EPC we will arrange with you a time to assess
your property for the Energy Performance Certificate.
Once we have confirmed you
want us to proceed with the HIP you can place your advert. The HIP should take no
longer than 2 weeks to produce. |
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I still have a few question I would like
answers to can you help? |
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Yes, no problem. Simply email us with your questions or
phone us, we will be happy to help. |
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email
enquiries@movegreener.com |
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