Browno22 1:17 Mon Oct 12
Purple Bricks
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Anybody had any experience with these cunts?
Estate agent is mugging us off with the value so they can get a quick sale. PurpleBricks will put it up for whatever we want and there are loads of buyers in the market, but obviously you have to pay their fees even if you don't sell.
Are they worth it, or is it PurplePRICKS?
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Vexed
1:26 Mon Oct 12
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Any estate agent will put the gaff up for sale at whatever price you tell them. Insist, you're paying these cunts.
If your property will sell easily the PB are a decent option, otherwise you could probably do with a proper estate agent.
They're all fucking worthless cunts though.
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Council Scum
1:38 Mon Oct 12
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Sold our last house on Facebook and saved a fortune. Went on the local chat page and loads of people looking for houses in our area, someone came round, made an offer that day and job done.
I'd try that first if you can.
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Huffers
2:25 Mon Oct 12
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I used Balgores but if you feel your house would sell itself then I recommend Purple Bricks now.
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Stowie.40
2:31 Mon Oct 12
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Selling at the moment with em, my place sold within 3 days of going on so tbh hasn’t been to bad but not over the line yet. Balgores I found to be absolute wankers.
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eusebiovic
3:00 Mon Oct 12
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Purple Shitbricks
They put properties on their website that are not for sale to entice you to look at the other stuff on their books.
They may have lots of advertising and backers with fat pockets but don't be fooled...there are better, smaller online operators about.
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Browno22
3:19 Mon Oct 12
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Not wrong about the advertising. Once you have googled them once then you have adverts every 30 seconds for life
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Hermit Road
3:47 Mon Oct 12
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I don’t understand what value an estate agent adds these days.
Whenever I’ve bought a house I look on Rightmove/Zoopla and go and look at the ones I like. If I still like them then, I put a bid in.
Nothing the estate agent says or doesn’t say has an bearing whatsoever in whether I decide to buy the house.
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eusebiovic
3:55 Mon Oct 12
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Hermit
Traditional estate agents are on their way out...if some survive it will be for obscenely expensive properties only.
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Moore than enough!!!
4:00 Mon Oct 12
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We used them and sold within a week. Got the asking price, but wanted a quick sale to try to get an offer accepted on a house we'd already found and was struggling to negotiate on. We could have held out for more, but we just wanted it sold.
It is money for old rope really, but having the option to set the asking price yourself and organise the viewings yourself was useful.
We showed people around ourselves because we didn't want to pay the extra for the agent to do it for us.
Ultimately the £1500 or there abouts is for getting on rightmove with a few photographs and little else - but it is where most people seem to look for property.
If it doesn't sell within 12 months they take the fee and keep advertising it for free.
Not ideal at all, but compared to some estate agents charging much bigger percentages it's not terrible all things considered.
Just be prepared for a lengthy wait on the solicitors - we've been waiting since July for it all to be done. Hopefully contracts will exchange next week.
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Mr Kenzo
4:03 Mon Oct 12
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Not sure why England can't adopt the Jocks method when it comes to selling houses,
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Far Cough
4:12 Mon Oct 12
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What's that then? "See you Jimmy"?
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,
4:15 Mon Oct 12
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As someone has already said the old fashioned model of estate agency is holed below the water line and gradually sinking. Their fees for selling are unsustainable because of the proliferation of online companies.
Beware of the online only companies though because I know of two cases where their lack of due diligence to buyers means has resulted in chains collapsing at the eleventh hour.
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,
4:17 Mon Oct 12
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Hermit, how do you go about selling as opposed to buying a house?
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13 Brentford Rd
4:19 Mon Oct 12
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Don't bother as they won't put the same effort in to sell your property as standard estate agent as they've alr Ady got your money.
You're in charge not the Estate agents! Just tell the agents that you want a competitive price listed to encourage more than one offer and buyers bidding higher against each other.
That's how it works these days.
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Queens Fish Bar
5:48 Mon Oct 12
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Hermit Road 3:47 Mon Oct 12
Nothing the estate agent says or doesn’t say has an bearing whatsoever in whether I decide to buy the house.
You're wrong, they are advising the vendor on negotiating with you. If you can't agree a price as a buyer the agent has had a bearing on you.
I don't hold them in high opinion, but good ones pay for themselves to the vendor.
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Queens Fish Bar
5:51 Mon Oct 12
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I thought the poster who mentioned they sold it through Facebook was smart. Why not?
Gumtree has properties for sale - fee ads.
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Glenn Roeder
6:13 Mon Oct 12
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If you want to save money and get a quick sale then use PB, but you may not get the service of an established estate agent, and they will probably (as they did with me) under value the house for a quick sale. I ended up getting 40K more with an estate agent than what PB said the house was worth, and PB wanted the 2K fees up front. Estate agents fee was 4.5k but overall I won. PB said the house wasn't worth what the estate agent said it was worth, they were wrong.
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Glenn Roeder
6:19 Mon Oct 12
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In addition PB could only come out to value the house 8 days after my initial contact, the estate agent came out next morning. PB also stated that after the selling contract was signed the photos and EPC would be 8-10 days later. The contract would arrive by post and you then sent it off by post. The PB agent who came to value the property reluctantly said they would be able to do the collection of paperwork but not until the following weekend. Estate agent popped round with the selling contract, we signed, he took photos and 4 days later the guys arrived to do the EPC.
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Hermit Road
7:04 Mon Oct 12
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Queens Fish Bar 5:48 Mon Oct 12
When this sentence is finished, I’m going to write down absolutely everything that you know about me buying my last house.
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smartypants
11:22 Mon Oct 12
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If purplebrix sell your house well then it’s usually more luck than judgement, rather than guidance.. in my experience they don’t have much knowledge so under value or leave it to greedy sellers to over value, either way they don’t care as they will be getting paid regardless (you pay fee wether they sell or not), so no incentive whatsoever. Also they usually tie you in with there shit 17 year old out of area conveyancer, who they get a kick back from and do absolutely nothing to get your sale to completion, so loads fall through as a result, again what do they care, they get paid regardless.
Any decent and honest High street agent will/should do it for 0.75% which is fair and then you have some accountability, rather than some faceless online set up.
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