House for Sale

It has been six months since we first put our house on the market and after first trying out an on-line estate agent without success, we went with a traditional high street estate agent, again without any success. I have to say both firms have proved to me how inept estate agents are when it comes to selling your most valuable asset. What they are all good at is promoting themselves. They produce all the glossy promotional bumph together with all the  supporting statistical information, comments from their Managing Directors, the success stories and the recommendations from "satisfied" customers. As far as we are concerned, what they say and what they do are miles apart. They all seem to have this third rate approach to "Customer Service", if that? Considering high street agents charge between 1.25% to 2% for selling your property, on average this amounts to between £3k to £5k, depending on what type of property you have. Now, if you were to pay for something costing these amounts for e.g. holiday, furniture etc, you would expect the company providing the goods to treat you with some respect and in the majority of cases this would be true. Not so with estate agents. Oh yes they offer insincere apologies if you point out their shortcomings, but don't expect them to do much more. It's 15 years since we last sold a property and we can honestly say estate agents in our opinion are no better now that they were then. Quick to sign you up and tie you up with a meaningless contract, but for a quick sale, forget it. Ok, I know other people have had success with them and we wish we could say the same, but the service we have received from both sources have been extremely poor. So, having tried the traditional approach we will try and do it ourselves. This is what we are offering any prospective buyers.

This is a genuine opportunity to buy an immaculate detached, three doubled bedroomed house situated in a popular area of Preston. The property has excellent transport links to the City centre and is close to the main Motorway network. There are a wide selection of schools covering all ages, with access to GP and dental surgeries, shops, library, churches, Post Office and a leisure centre nearby. The property has further potential to increase the internal structure to accommodate extra living/bedroom space by utilising the integral garage, something which other owners have done. The outside area has manageable gardens and ample off-street parking for several vehicles. We will consider offers over £165,000 from prospective buyers.

If you are interested just add your comments and we will get back to you. Thanks for looking.