Buying your property from an estate agent

An estate agent will help value and market your house and act as your go to person should you be the buyer of a new home. The fact they are an agent means they will do the legwork between you as the buyer and the seller. They will make the process a lot less stressful than if you were to try and undertake this entire process off your own back.

Buying or selling your home – both functions are big processes and this is big business in every sense of the word in terms of what this consists of. It is your interest they will represent and the buyer should bear this in mind if they are interested in a house being sold through an estate agent. All estate agents should be accredited by the property obundsman scheme. This means you will be covered along the way and through the processes which go with the buying and selling of property. There are however property websites that can be used to sell or buy a house without going through an estate agent; the likes of these include Purple Bricks as well as others. 

Estate agents all have their fees and this is the part of the process you can never ever be rid of or avoid. This is all a part of the wider overall process and how they are to conduct their sales transaction for you. If you are selling, you will usually pay between 0.75% and 3.5% of the selling price to your estate agent. Again, shop around, and negotiate once you've found an estate agent that you would like to work with. Make sure that when it comes to this element of the transaction that you do not feel any sense of pressure to have to go with a set estate agent. 

An estate agent will help value and market your house hand in hand. This is for sure the main areas which they work hand in hand in being able to help you realise the overall process and transaction as a whole. Although estate agents are paid by the seller, the buyer's relationship with the estate agent is vitally important, too. This too is where and how they need to be sure to go about the sale in the right manner and stick to their word in the process also.