Buying and selling a home is one of life's biggest, most expensive and stressful undertakings. Yet selling your home CAN be a very profitable and enjoyable experience.
first4sale.com makes the whole process a lot simpler, often thousands of pounds cheaper and with our 'How To' Guides, a lot less stressful. By selling it yourself, you can enjoy the control you have over the whole process from taking the best representative pictures through writing the description and all the way to managing the viewing schedule, negotiating and agreeing the buying price and terms.
We provide all the information you need to maximise the potential of your property and the tools to market it efficiently, to both a huge online AND local audience without paying £££s in estate agent commission!
We provide all the information you need to maximise the potential of your property and the tools to market it efficiently, to both a huge online AND local audience without paying £££s in estate agent commission!
Currently more than 75% of buyers search for property online. And that figure is rising fast. Now you can reach those buyers and through us, harness the incredible marketing power of the internet to sell your home. In the past, selling your home privately would have meant hours of research and a great deal of money spent on advertising. Now at the click of a button, we enable you to reach a huge number of targeted buyers instantly.
At first4sale.com we also recognise the importance of LOCAL advertising - and we've taken the best method of traditional local advertising one step further to help your sale. We can install (and remove when you've sold!) one of our highly visible 'FOR SALE' boards, which feature a FREEPHONE number*. This combination of both local AND extensive online exposure puts your property in front of the widest possible market, both on and off line, giving you the very best chance of a quick sale. And as many of our successful vendors already know, it also makes us the complete alternative to the traditional estate agent.
We have found that it is often difficult to find exactly what you're looking for when searching for property online. Therefore, our search facility is as comprehensive as possible. We have included such criteria as South facing garden, no chain, buildings guarantee, distance to nearest transport links, amenities & schools - things so important to so many buyers, but neglected by so many sellers. These details appear on your property Home Page, so we think it makes sense to be able to search directly for them. If your property has such benefits, they should be exploited! Also, if any of our registered buyers are looking for a property like yours, they will be alerted by email as soon as your property comes online.
We believe that the best person to sell your home is the one that knows it best - you! We provide you with the best tools available to make a private sale and therefore you will not have to pay commission, potentially saving you thousands of pounds! Full details of this are available in our FAQ section. If you are already with an estate agent, be aware that a few agents still operate a 'sole selling rights' agreement and charge their fees EVEN if you sell your home yourself! You may also have to wait a long period (often 2 months and even up to 4!) before you can sell the property yourself. Fortunately, 'sole selling rights' contracts are now rare.
There is no great mystery to selling your home. In mainland Europe many people sell privately. It's simply a matter of having the right information available to you so that you can avoid any pitfalls and the facility to market your home effectively. We provide all the information you need to deal with all aspects of the selling process.
* Around 75% of sales are generated initially from a sales board enquiry.