It is important that you can relate to your estate agent. We would recommend that you visit their office and get an impression of the people you will be dealing with. The person who visits your home could be the only impressive person who works for the company and they are likely to be out of the office most of the time.
Make sure you get a short contract or a flexible one.
Most agents will sign you up to a 12 week sole agency, followed by up to 21 days notice after this point, so if you don’t get along, if they don’t keep their promises, or simply are not getting results, you will be stuck with them for up to 4 months.
We have no length of contract, just a two week notice period.
The decision is entirely yours.
It is prudent to ask if they are a member of any professional bodies, such as ‘The Guild of Professional Estate Agents’? We are, which means that your property is available through a network of approximately 700 independent estate agents like us, across the country. We are also Office of Fair Trading approved.
Where do they advertise? A large proportion of our applicant base is now generated from the various web-sites we use. This is now a very important part of marketing for your house. Unlike papers, you will be on the web 24hrs a day 7 days a week, for as many consecutive weeks as it takes. We do however recognise a large proportion still comes from papers*.
*Kemp & Co. advertise in all the local property papers and can promise you regular advertising
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