Home move and estate agents

Thinking of selling your home here are a few tips that should save you thousands. We all know how to avoid the home sellers pack Hips or home information pack’s we won’t go over that.

However take this scenario that happened to us the other day, Peter Alan knew we were looking for a new home so they ring us with properties that we might be interested in.

It goes like this “hello we have this property in blah blah on for £140000 will take an offer around £127000.

So the vendor losses £13000, the estate agents on say 1.5% lose £195 in commission, not exactly fair is it since the vendor still has to pay £1905 to the estate agent for selling his house. 

So to avoid estate agents fees, place your home for sale in the local paper cost of around £60 for 4 days, get a for sales sign your local printer can knock one up for you.

If you want to screen the enquiry calls, give an imaginary person to be asked for..

Avoid Home seller packs

Here are the Home seller packs exemptions if your not confused enough already, however we can show you how to legally avoid them. 

The first exception is for the new-build home. We won’t get the “full” Home Information Packs on new homes until April next year. They won’t have an Energy Performance Certificate. It was going to be October this year, then January next year and now it’s April.

The second exception is for any property marketed before what the Government term the due date.

The due date for homes of more than four bedrooms was August 1, 2007; for more than three bedrooms, September 15, 2007; and now all other second-hand homes before December 14, 2007. So maybe we will have an artificial rush to get smaller properties on to the market in the next two weeks.

All previously-marketed properties can be marketed indefinitely without a Hip. The Government has yet to make its mind up on when this bundle of properties come into the loop.

There is a third exception. You can market any property after the due dates, just as long as you can prove you have ordered a Hip.

This allowance will apply until at least June next year. So don’t be surprised if you are attracted to a possible new home and find it doesn’t have a pack available. Indeed, rumour has it that some agents are “ordering” the pack with the side instruction not to produce it, avoiding costs, until the sale is agreed. Seems like a good wheeze for the agent and seller but not much use to the purchaser.

So why all of these delays and shilly shallying by the Government? They had intended to hit the home-buying industry with one big bang back in May this year but they weren’t listening to it. The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors took them to court and made them think again. Good job they did because the present delays are a clear indication that neither the Government nor the industry was prepared for these changes and the impact on the selling process.

These announcements aren’t the end of the Energy Performance Certificates. Those of us in rented homes will be brought into the loop from next October. So any home that is rented out, whether it’s a private rental, housing association or even a council, must have a certificate that is current and less than 10 years old. The housing associations and councils are starting to gear up now but I doubt if our legions of buy-to-let landlords have even thought about it. Confused? Join the gang!

Home sellers packs “avoid them now”

From Dec 14, every person selling their home will have to pay up to £700 for a home sellers pack or Hip, the Government announced yesterday, OR maybe not…

 The home sellers pack can be avoided in its entirety, just by calling your BEDROOMS ROOMS fact not fiction…

“Under planning law, it is about whether rooms are habitable, not whether they are bedrooms or not.”

Therefore call your bedrooms, rooms you are HIPs and EPC free,  on all home sizes from 1 bedroom homes and flats to 4 bedroom and larger properties.

An estimated 1.7 million properties are marketed every year, with about 333,000 of those being advertised speculatively by home owners testing the water.

However, about half of those homes put on speculatively end up being sold after the owner receives an offer they cannot refuse.

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (Rics) predicted that, with these properties disappearing from the market in one fell swoop, activity will “grind to a halt” with buyers left chasing a very small number of properties.

A review carried out for the Government by Europe Economics, published yesterday, found that the packs had already deterred people from putting their houses up for sale.

There is no legal definition of a bedroom, call your home is you like 3 up 2 down or 5 room home, you choose.

Whichever you choose the home sellers pack is not needed and you save £700 plus a load of hassle.

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