What to do if you have regrets about the estate agent you chose to market your property?
Do you have your home on the market for sale and feel as if things have gone a little flat? Are you considering your options? Perhaps you need to change things up to get moved?
Selling your home is a huge task and comes fraught with emotional worries, frustrations, turmoil and financial concerns. There is a ton of paperwork to do, and you may be spiralling with the sheer lack of control you, as a homeowner, actually have during this process. It is entirely understandable, then, that selling your home is considered one of the hardest things to do and perhaps the reason that most of us only move a handful of times.
With this in mind, it is little surprise that the average homeowner takes up to a year, sometimes longer, to finally come to a decision and take the plunge to put their home on the market.
But selling a home is not a scientific process; there is no guarantee and no way of knowing in advance how things will pan out. You just have to have faith that it will go to plan.
When you initially launch your property to the market, after building up to this moment for a long time, it can feel disheartening when it doesn't work out. You will likely have had an initial flurry of viewings, but the interest will naturally begin to dwindle as time goes on, and the chances of selling your home seem to be getting further away.
This is a familiar story for many sellers, and unless you are one of the lucky ones that sells within the first month, it is likely a familiar story to you, too.
But what if you never had that initial flurry of activity? What if things never really took off and you were underwhelmed from the very outset? Perhaps your agent promised the world but has not delivered, and now you feel you've made a terrible mistake?
Don't worry. Sure, it is not ideal that you have regrets, and you may even be stuck in a contract for several weeks before you can do anything about it, but all problems are 'figure-out-able'.
Firstly, if you feel that you made a mistake with your selection of an estate agent, you need to discuss it with them. Lay your concerns out for them and see if the relationship can be repaired. It could simply be that they have tried everything within their power, but the market is not on your side, or perhaps they have another option to try to sell your home.
If that doesn't work and you still feel that you need to switch, serve your current agent their notice in writing and ask them to notify you of the final day that your home will be marketed with them. Then, begin your search for your new agent.
Opt for an agent with experience and knowledge of selling properties like yours, who has access to technology to help you along the way and doesn't simply rely on posting your property onto the property websites and waiting for a buyer to turn up.
Selling a property is not a science, and there is no crystal ball, but if you are confident in the agent that is working for you and you know in your heart that they are trying everything that they can to get your home sold, you are sure to find a buyer.
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