WHY USE US?

What are the benefits of using EstatesDirect.com?

We've listed what we think are the 10 key reasons for using us over a high street estate agent:

What we do to sell your property

We will arrange a convenient time for a local area specialist to meet with you at your property to discuss your needs and our property services. You will receive a FREE market valuation of your home and once you have paid your marketing fee we will then put your property infront of targeted buyers and on all the major property portal websites including Rightmove and Zoopla. We work hard to ensure your property is sold quickly as, like you, we can't afford to let your property linger. It is as important as ever to sell quickly before prices fall further and you are left ever reducing your asking price.

Why are we different?

We charge you a fair, fixed fee for selling or letting your property instead of a 1-2% commission based on your asking price. Saving you £1000's compared to traditional high street estates hefty commission fees.

Why are we better value for money than other estate agents?

We offer a complete estate agent service, rivalling any of the best local high street estate agents, we don't need to charge you extortionate commissions for, let's face it, an already extremely expensive transaction. How do we do this? Well, for starters we don't operate expensive high street branches with all the associated costs that entails. We run a centrally based head office for administration and taking calls from buyers. Our local area specialists are professional estate agents who work in your area handling appointments, valuations and viewings. By doing away local offices, expensive leases, rents, heating, maintenance, computers and stationery etc, we can then pass all the savings to you, the customer, so your money is used for what it should be used for - marketing your property to targeted buyers.

Yes, that sounds great, but surely there must be a catch?

No, there is no catch. It’s simple economics. Over 95% of buyers now use the Internet to search for property. The top property portals in the UK are seeing a 10% rise in visitors year-on-year and already receive over 50 million visits each month! Estate agents therefore receive nearly all of their enquiries as a result of buyers seeing a property on the Internet. In this day and age of the internet there is ABSOLUTLEY NO NEED to operate from expensive high street offices anymore.

Why don't "traditional" estate agents work this way then?

You are paying towards the running costs of their many branch offices and the associated marketing costs. Gone are the times when buyers needed to walk down the high street and look at property in estate agent windows. Nor do the vast majority of buyers look through newspapers, Buyers don't search for properties in this way because most of the properties estate agents advertise in newspapers and their branch windows are marked as sold anyway - after all, would you prefer a single small photo and tiny description in a newspaper to a high quality Internet advert with multiple photos, floor plans, full descriptions and maps of local services and instant access to targeted buyers/tenants via email or telephone?

We'll let you into a little secret... Estate agents are not trying to sell houses through their branch windows nor through the property pages of local newspapers, they’re simply advertising their brand to potential SELLERS to receive more clients and hopefully more of those juicy fat commissions! Why else would they pay for valuable advertising space to market properties that have already been sold?

Ask yourself this question, why pay for an estate agent to market THEMSELVES instead of the YOUR property? Simple answer, you shouldn't! With EstatesDirect.com your money goes on marketing YOUR property to potential buyers and not on pointless high street branches and self-promoting adverts.

Rightmove is the main advertising point for selling houses. Rightmove sells your house not a high street shop window, not the advertising in the local papers and not the estate agents reputation! EstatesDirect.com do exactly what is required... Getting your property on Rightmove and Zoopla!

Read the small print

Did you know that most traditional estate agents will still charge you for not selling your property? It's true. Many traditional estate agents appear to want it both ways. You may think that you have to pay an estate agent such high fees because if they don't sell you don't pay. Unfortunately this not always the case, if you take your property off the market because your estate agent has failed to sell it, then you could still be stung for upwards of £350 to "cover their marketing costs" or as a “withdrawal fee” and if you sell to anyone else in the next 12 months – another agent, a friend, the milkman – you could still be liable to pay the full commission on your original asking price!

So, before you sign with another estate agent, please take some time to talk to us and we'll show you that there is a better way. Phone 08456 31 31 31 today.

To speak to your local area specialist and arrange a FREE valuation
phone 08456 31 31 31 or email us today