subject: Selling Your House Privately – The Right Choice for the Right Market [print this page] Selling Your House Privately The Right Choice for the Right Market
If you don't want an estate agent and a conveyancing lawyer and all the other people that normally take a piece of the action, to diminish the value of your house sale or rental, you don't have to. The power of the Internet has made it possible to consider selling your house privately or renting it without having to go through traditional channels.
If you have private property to rent, or you wish to sell your house without having someone else come along and take a huge chunk off the top, you should start looking into the boom of new style property websites as epitomised by the UK site Your Property Key, which gives you everything you need to make the dream of selling and renting privately come true.
For starters, you can opt for unlimited national coverage for your property. Traditionally, properties are advertised for sale by estate agents who are tied to their physical location. If you choose to try selling your house privately you can advertise it all over the country by placing it on a site like Your Property Key. If people living in the north are looking to come south, then, they can key in a desired area and your house will pop up on their screens.
The same is true of private property to rent. Why confine yourself to advertising your rental in the immediate area of your home, when you can attract and catch a broader audience, the kind of audience that may be looking to move into your area, on the internet?
The normal connectivity benefits of the web apply too. If you start selling your house privately on such sites, you will automatically get linked in to all the major search engines. That means that people using search engines for keyword searches that include phrases like property to rent, or even private property to rent, or sell, will bring up your listings on the site you have chosen.
You only pay a small fee - and you only pay it once. That means no hidden costs and no depressing skimming taken off the final sale price of your home. Choose the more expensive option (by a mere five pounds) and you even get a genuine "For Sale" or "To Let" board that you can display outside your property.
The idea of selling your house privately, or of trying to rent out privately, is still relatively new. As such you can reap the benefits of prices designed to get new business interested. Do bear in mind, though, that when you take control of your market in this way you will be liable for more costs so of course the final tally putting your property out as private property to rent may be higher than you thought it would be. Overall, though, the net profit to you should still be better than it would have been otherwise.
