You may know of a few well known online-only estate agents that want to sell you the dream of selling your property for FREE. They advertise themselves as providing you a Roles-Royce service and promise you unicorns and rainbows, just to get you on board.

It is only until you actually go ahead to sell your property with these online estate agents, you find out it is not actually the best or cheapest option and the reality isn’t so dream and candy-like. It starts raining and you find nasty surprises and hidden fees along the way – and no one likes those.

Did you know that only 2% of estate agents openly mention their fees on their website?

These hidden fees can be:

·    £99 Registration fee

·    £200 Fees for your property to be listed on webpages such as Zoopla and Rightmove

·    Fees for viewings (£30 per viewing)

·    £100 Fees for a “for sale” sign outside your home

·    £250 Fees for an agent to take photos of your house

·    £500 Non-refundable fees for withdrawals by buyer or seller

What About Smart Auction UK?

We boast that we are a free property selling service. But what are our costs. Well luckily for you our buyers pay our fees, with a client base built up of almost 50 years of trading, our customers rely on us to bring them properties that will be their next investment opportunity.

But what about the “hidden, additional” costs. Nope, none of those either. In fact, the following services are completely included and we pay for them, you don’t. Regardless of it your property sells or not, you will never pay is a penny.

• The running and placing of your property in our auction
• The cost of the estate agent we assign to deal with your property marketing, pictures, floorplans and conducting all the viewings (yes, we pay them! You don't!)
• The finding of a buyer through all of our portals, along with Rightmove, Zoopla, On the market, local marketing and property sourcers (we work with 3600 individuals all around the globe that we incentivise to push their buyers our way

So, what are the main difference between us, and estate agency?

·        You can think of us as an add on. We pay for and instruct an estate agent local to you to deal with all the marketing, floorplans, pictures, viewings and negotiations, but we also reach out across our network of estate agents and individuals who are all incentivised to find a buyer for you.

·        Our timescales for selling are 28-84 days, essentially less than 3 months, where as with estate agents it is between 4 – 8 months on average.

·        We charge the buyer a finder’s fee, we don’t charge you any fees for selling, we even pay the state agent that we instruct to work with you. You only have to pay the legal fees associated with selling the property.

·        We market your property not only through the traditional routes, but also through our partner agents and our own auction site which has been running for almost 50 years. Our traffic has built up over the years, so we give you more exposure that the traditional route.

Want to find out more about how we can help you?

If you want to learn about the modern online auction, see if auction is right for you here.

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