A listing on this site costs £20 but realistically you will have to be prepared to pay to advertise in the Telford Journal too. A standard sized advert in the Telford Journal property pages will cost you around £50 depending on the size you choose. If you advertise under the Housewolf banner, you can advertise on the property pages and it will make it easy for interested buyers to look at your full house details on the website. To get exact prices for advertising call Shropshire Star 242424 and ask about advertising in the property pages.

Below is a advert placed by a client in the Telford Journal (Jul 27th) which cost around £55 and measured 50mm by 75mm

Arleston   3 bed semi  No Chain 07773 292740      £125,000

It is for you to weigh up whether you want to pay an estate agent his fee. Which will cover advertising in the Journal, a space in their window etc. Or whether you want to pay to advertise for yourself. The more expensive your house is, obviously, the more you stand to save. A house worth £200,000 will typically attract £3525 in estate agency fees (including VAT) , this would buy you a lot of adverts in the Telford Journal. You can probably think of other places you could advertise your house as well. Local shop windows, your works notice board, Housewolf can also supply for sale signs to advertise your house for sale.

Perhaps you'd like to test the water with a few adverts and decide from there?

Can I really sell my house without an estate agent?

In a word yes. Estate agents do not handle the legal side of a sale, it is your solicitor or conveyancer who will do this for you. You will have to employ one of these to handle the legal side of your house sale whether or not you employ an estate agent. An estate agent advertises your property for you, and passes on viewing requests and offers. The web offers you a shopfront to market your own property without having to use an estate agent, and this is exactly what many houseowners are now doing ...

Why is Housewolf the best internet site to use to sell my home in the Telford area?

You'll benefit from using Housewolf to sell your house through, because;

we advertise heavily in the local area

we concentrate on attracting local as well as national buyers

we are the only internet site of this type solely serving your local area

you'll be interacting with a human, not a machine. You won't have to fill out pages of pre-formatted fields, remember passwords or ids. We offer a friendly human-scale service.

We offer an email and telephone masking service so that your private contact details remain private.

Because we are local we can help you. We can come out and measure your house, take photos or put up a for sale board for you.

If you are tempted to place your house for sale on any other 'sale by owner' sites. Take the time to check through the properties they have listed for sale in your area. Often they will already have sold, sometimes months or even a year ago! This means that their site looks busier than it is.

How does Housewolf work?

Send your details and photos to us. We put your details and photos on our site. Potential buyers contact you direct using the details from your advert, they arrange viewings directly with you. Sellers report they appreciate being able to deal with their buyers directly, its makes communication much more easy and straightforward.

How does email masking work?

Your advert will give out a housewolf email to contact, such as yourname@housewolf.co.uk this email will be linked directly to your email address, so that all messages are forwarded directly to you automatically.

How does telephone masking work?

We help you to  arrange for an 0845 number to be linked to your home phone number so that your actual home number remains private. This will cost you around £6 and can be arranged directly online at
http://www.twplc.co.uk/

How does Housewolf differ from an estate agent?

With housewolf you are dealing with your buyer direct. With an estate agent you are using a go-between who will arrange a mutually convenient time for viewings. He also acts as a go-between when offers are being made.

If you decide to use an estate agent - choose carefully

Unfortunately not all estate agents operate to the high standards you would expect. There are databases of complaints about the practices of various estate agents.
Before you choose an estate agent see if you can find a personal recommendation from a trusted friend or relative. Ask some of the people already employing them to market their house what they think about the service they are receiving. Read the contract very carefully scoring through anything you don't agree with, infact since you will need a solicitor anyway to do the legal work for completion of sale, perhaps you could choose your solicitor now and get him to give the document a once over. All this may seem very irritating and time-consuming, but it really is time well spent. As you will see from the above link, in the long run, it is much easier and less frustrating to find a competent estate agent, than to try to sort out the problems that can follow if you do not.

Can I use Housewolf to sell my house alongside an estate agent?

Yes. If you are already signed with an agent, you can still use housewolf. So long as your contract gives the agent 'sole agency rights' rather than the rarer 'sole selling rights' then selling your house through an enquiry from housewolf will mean you do not have to pay commission fees. (You do not need a multi-agency agreement, as Housewolf is not an agency, multiagency agreements can be more expensive.)

The Office of Fair Trading state in their guide "Using an estate agent to sell your home",

"Sole agency; The estate agent you appoint is the only agent with the right to sell your property. As you are not an agent, if you find a buyer yourself you don't have to pay the estate agent's commission."

So if a buyer comes to you through your advert on housewolf, you get to keep your commission. Think of housewolf as rather like a newpaper, you pay a fee to place an advert on our publishing website. By answering your advert the buyer approaches you directly, so you are actually selling the house yourself.

How will I know what my property is worth?

Houseowners generally have a very shrewd idea of how much their house is worth. A look in the local property pages at the prices of similar properties should give you a guideline. Many agents are happy to come out and speculatively suggest what price you could market your house at - but bear in mind its only their best guess. 

One way to get a feel for house prices in your area is to do a search on your street on www.mouseprice.co.uk make a note of an address nearby that has sold recently and use that address to access www.houseprices.co.uk , click on the map option to see the location and prices of houses in that immediate area that sold in the past 4 years approx. Using these two sites in this way, means you can get price data for free that you have to pay for on other sites.

Won't it be difficult arranging the sale?

It isn't as difficult as you may have been led to beleive. Showing your house to buyers will usually be expected of you even if you use an estate agent. Arranging a viewing is simply a matter of finding a mutually convenient time.

If you are offered the price you want, say 'yes', and if you don't like the offer say 'no'.

On accepting an offer neither of you is legally bound, it is simply a 'gentleman's agreement' between you. It is then up to each of you to appoint a solicitor or conveyancer to represent your interests, and prepare the necessary documents for the final stage of selling, exchange of contracts - this is when the property and money finally change hands. 

Where can I get impartial information about using an estate agent and their role in my house sale?

The office of fair trading has a useful guide to using an estate agent. We have included the link for you to the site where you can click through 'your rights when shopping' to estate agents.

http://www.oft.gov.uk/Consumer/

For our part we offer you a service that you can use alongside or independently of an estate agent. We aim to give you an easy-to-use and competitively priced option when it comes to selling your house.

We hope this page has been helpful to you, if you have any questions you'd like to ask, or even think should be added to the site, please email us at help@housewolf.co.uk we'll be happy to help you.

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