Selling a house is an extremely stressful thing to do, and making every step of the process as straight forward as possible will help things tremendously. One area that should certainly be as smooth as possible is the relationship with the estate agent marketing the property, but, all too often, fractures appear and things get harder than ever to deal with.
Quite often, problems with UK estate agents start because a home simply is not selling or, worse still, not attracting a decent number of viewings. Presently, industry research suggests that a home will take nearly three and a half months before a sale is secured.
Understanding this time frame can go some way to relaxing a seller. However, this does not resolve the issue regards not getting enough viewers through the door. All too often though, the vendor will not approach their agent about the problem; with half of all sellers simply moving to other local estate agents without discussing the issues.
Taking such action is understandable in many ways but, simply serves to put more pressure on the seller themselves, and immediately pressurise the new agent. By far the better course of action is to talk with the existing agent, discuss the problem and give the relationship a chance.
In almost all cases, the issues will be resolvable; most likely having been caused by miscommunication and an inflated asking price. Naturally, some problems will not be able to resolved, such as misguidance and poor conduct. Thankfully, instances of this happening are seldom in the UK property market.
In order to make sure you start and end the process with the best estate agents in the area, checking out the advice and reviews at Meet My Agent can really help. Independently rated and reviewed, we help sellers make the right decisions from the start.