Selling a flat with an estate agent pays off
Text from 2018. Laws, rates and prices may have changed since then. Ask an agent
To many of us, using the services of an estate agency seems too expensive or unnecessary. In fact, quite the opposite is true! An experienced agency will make the sale of a property much easier and faster, and will also save us time and money. See for yourself why it is worth working with a professional estate agency and what benefits you can count on.
Faster sale
Experience, professionalism, knowledge of the market and of sales techniques give estate agents a big advantage over people trying to sell a flat on their own. Above all, agencies have many ways of presenting individual listings, so news of the sale reaches a much wider pool of potential buyers. By working with an agency, you can count on your listing being presented on the agency's website, on property portals, and also on local and national websites. Agents also use very effective mailing lists and draw on their business contacts to spread the advertisement as widely as possible. All of these activities considerably speed up the finalisation of the transaction.
Security
What keeps people selling a property awake at night is the multitude of formalities they have to deal with. There is always a danger that we will forget something, miss deadlines or simply be defrauded. Fortunately, by entrusting the sale of the flat to an estate agency, we need not worry that any of these things will happen to us. A professional agent will oversee the completion of all formalities and make sure that all provisions of the agreement are clear and favourable to their client.
Saving time and money
Even the most enthusiastic people who decide to find a buyer for their property on their own lose their zeal after a while, seeing how much time and energy it takes. It is not enough to put up an advertisement on one of the more popular portals. You also have to reply to e-mails, answer phone calls, arrange meetings and spend money on travel. All this means that until the transaction is finalised we practically stop having free time for ourselves and our family, which affects our well-being and our relationships with loved ones. Entrusting the sale to an estate agency therefore relieves us of many duties and, above all, means we do not have to think about the whole process. Everything happens "on its own", and we only turn up to sign the final agreement.
Greater profit from the sale
Thanks to the estate agency's experience, we can increase the value of our property by simple means. Agents will advise us on what is worth improving so that the flat looks more attractive and thus more expensive. They will also handle the valuation and negotiate the best sale terms for us. Most of us lack the skills to present our listing in the most favourable light. Estate agents will do it for us! We can therefore be sure that, thanks to this, they will find the best buyer for our property.
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