If you choose to sell your property online or buy online it is of value thinking about the following points. With some of the more user friendly sites you are able to position the details of your private home sale straight onto the page that your home is being shown this means that if you are a bit of a night owl or work through out the day you are able to enter your details as and when you feel like it rather than fitting in with the site owners schedule. This makes sure that you can change your details at any time be it sizes, descriptions or more decisively the price of your property. Often there is some form of waver saying that the information is all provided by the property owner and doesn?t necessarily hold the full particulars.
When you are measuring up, make sure you give clear descripions of what measurement you are providing, from a buyers viewpoint it is always worth querying anything you are unsure of and most private sellers are more than happy to answer any questions. The website that a property is being publicised on will not have carried out a appraisal on the property and it will normally be upto the purchaser to have a surveyors report done on the property before exchanging contracts. Always use a certified contractor to test the appliances and equipment in a property, this will help you to negotiate price if anything is amiss. As a seller it is of value having any service information to hand to enable you to negotiate a better price. Ensure you involve a solicitor to look into all legal issues relating to the property (e.g. title, tenure, planning permission etc) as these are expert issues that will not be sorted out by websites. A solicitor also sorts out with the seller what things (e.g. carpets, curtains, fixtures & fittings, sheds etc) will or will not be built into the sale.
In other words, you must make sure for yourself all information before acting on it, in particular the current asking price, sizes of rooms, ownership, freehold, extent of refurbishments and any issues of specific importance to you.
