Land and Buildings
When you choose to sell your property online or buy online it is worth thinking about the following tips. With some of the more user friendly sites you are able to place the details of your private home sale straight onto the page that your home is being displayed this means that if you are a bit of a night owl or work through out the day you are able to enter your details as and when you feel like it rather than fitting in with the site owners schedule. This makes sure that you can change your information at any time be it sizes, descriptions or more decisively the price of your house. Often there is some form of waver stating that the information is purely provided by the client and doesn’t necessarily hold the complete particulars.
When you are measuring up, ensure you give clear descripions of what dimensions you are giving, from a buyers viewpoint it is always worth querying anything you arent sure of and most private sellers are more than pleased to answer any queries. The website that a house is being publicised on will not have carried out a survey on the house and it will as a rule be upto the buyer to have a surveyors report done on the house before exchanging contracts. Make sure you use a certified contractor to check the appliances and equipment in a house, this will help you to negotiate price if something is wrong. As a seller it is worth having any service information to hand to enable you to barter for a better price.
Ensure you involve a solicitor to look into all legal issues relating to the house (e.g. title, tenure, planning permission etc) as these are expert issues that will not be sorted out by websites. A solicitor also sorts out with the seller what things (e.g. carpets, curtains, fixtures & fittings, sheds etc) will or will not be built into the sale.
In other words, you should make sure for yourself all information before acting on it, in particular the current asking price, sizes of rooms, ownership, freehold, extent of refurbishments and any issues of specific consequence to you.