Avoid estate agents – and common home-selling mistakes

Nowadays, more and more UK home sellers are choosing to sell their properties without the assistance of estate agents – especially those who require a fast home sale. By opting to sell privately, through an auction, or to a home buying company such as MPG Investments, home sellers are able to avoid costly fees and endless delays associated with estate agents. And, in the case of MPG, they’ll receive hard cash for their homes within one week.

Should you decide to sell your home to MPG, you’ll enjoy a quick, hassle-free home sale that can be completed within 7 days. Best of all, you’ll avert any potential home-selling mistakes made by those who eschew estate agents’ services. Continue reading to learn more about common property selling errors, and to discover how you can avoid them by selling your home to MPG Investments today.

Sell for cash to MPG and avoid these home-selling mistakes

Property sellers who opt to sell their homes themselves are often lured into a false sense of security: They believe that because they’ve managed to avoid estate agents (and hence all the risks associated with them), their home sale will be a smooth, simple and quick process. However, this is not always the case. In fact, when one embarks upon a private home sale, it is easy to make a number of mistakes that could cost you time, money and even the sale of your home.

Unnecessary home renovations

Renovating your home is generally an unessential undertaking. Yet, many home sellers are led to believe that it will increase the desirability of their home, thus boosting their property’s market value and enabling them to make a greater profit. This is not true at all! Unless you’re living in a highly sought-after area of the UK, the chances are that you won’t be able to recoup the money you spent on renovation costs. Moreover, attempting to regain what you shelled out by increasing the asking price is likely to make your home more difficult to sell.

Certainly, it may be necessary to replace items that are unsanitary or beyond repair – after all, your home needs to be attractive (at least to a degree) in order to entice interested parties to make an offer. But replacing carpets with tiles, installing brand new kitchen units or landscaping your garden is not guaranteed to make you a quick buck. Moreover, if you’re selling your home in order to remedy a dire financial situation, you probably can’t afford to make a loss on the sale.

Auctioning your property

On the topic of losses, another common property selling mistake made by those who avoid estate agents – and who hope to sell their properties fast – is putting their homes up for auction. Unwilling to take on a cumbersome, complicated private sale on their own, many homeowners believe that it would be simpler to hand their homes over to an auctioneer. Granted, this affords one a relatively fast home sale, but could also result in huge financial losses: In some cases, properties are sold for 25% of their market value! If you’re already strapped for cash, this will only further compound your financial predicament.

Selling before you’ve secured alternative accommodation

Finally, homeowners who are desperate for a quick cash injection may become so focused on selling their homes that they do not get around to securing alternative accommodation ahead of the property sale!

If you decide to sell your home privately, you may be able to finalise the sale in just a few months. By the same token, should you choose to auction your home, despite the inherent financial risks attached to this, you could find yourself with a wad of cash – and no roof over your head – within a matter of weeks. While this may afford you the opportunity to solve your pressing financial issues, it merely replaces one problem with another. Do you really want to find yourself homeless as well as penniless?

Opting to sell your house for cash to MPG, however, will eliminate both of these problems in one transaction. You’ll receive a lump sum of cash for your property (roughly 80% of your home’s market value) and, if you select our innovative Sell and Rent Back option, you’ll be able to continue living in your home as a tenant! You won’t have to pack a single bag, and you certainly won’t have to hunt for accommodation during a stressful time. You can rent your home back from us for as long as you need to, at a rate that is equal to (or, in some cases, below) standard rental rates. No one will even know that you sold your home in the first place!

With MPG, You can avoid estate agents AND sell your home easily!

When you decide to sell your home to MPG Investments, you’ll not only be able to avoid estate agents, but you’ll also enjoy peace of mind during this worrying time. You can rest assured that a sale to MPG is fast, simple and completely transparent: There are no hidden fees, no agents’ commissions and no delays. Most importantly, the sale can be finalised in 7 days, which means that you could put paid to your financial quandaries in just one week.

If you want to avoid estate agents, as well as home-selling mistakes that could cost you time, money, and even the sale of your property, contact MPG today on 0800 634 9231. We’ll show you just how simple it can be to sell your home for cash today – guaranteed.