Re: House Selling using High St or Web Site Estate Agents.

I'd say it depends on how valuable or unusual your home is really.

We have sold ours (hopefully!) and chose to use a specialist local estate agent. They have charged us a fee of 1% plus VAT but the more upmarket national brands were looking at 1.5% to 1.75%. That said they will have earned it as they've done a lot of work behind the scenes liaising with solicitors and other agents to make sure the chain holds together and people are kept informed.

Get a few opinions from the valuers too before you go to market. Whilst one we saw was pie in the sky high with their value (in the hope greed would suck us in with them), 2 others were very similar and in line with our own research. Andrew Grant were cack though. The market value they suggested was around 15% below what we have sold for - the feckwits!!!

As we are house hunting it is noticeable there are many more boards around with Purplebricks, Tepilo and the like named. I just wonder if it might be a false economy as our agent has done an awful lot to keep the sale on track that I suspect someone on a small fixed fee would not. Not saying they are worth the 1% overall but if we get the deal done I will be happy overall.