Godfrey and Godfrey. Provide all services, which enables you the seller to advertise your property for sale. We further provide a dedicated confidential answering service manned Monday to Friday 10am to 6pm, Saturday and Sunday 10am to 4pm., where telephone enquiries are answered by a real person and not an automated service, This also provides a useful mechanism to stop time wasters and dare we say, habitual Nosey Parkers. It also adds a layer of personal security. We will only contact you with interested Bona- fide purchaser/viewers.
We provide printed property details to requesting purchasers and contact potential buyers on our mailing list, who have displayed an interest in properties similar to the details you advertise, exactly the same as an Estate Agent.
We publish your property for sale details on a dedicated property web site, accessible 24 hours per day, 7 days per week, giving your property maximum exposure to potential internet browsers and buyers.
Coming soon, a High Street Branch, enabling “ For Sale By Owner” property details to be displayed and accessed by pedestrian footfall, exactly the same as Estate Agents.
We will facilitate the taking of laser accurate measurements and description of your property conforming to “The Property Misdescriptions Act 1991”.
We immediately erect a legal “For Sale By Owner” board at your property in a position of your choosing, within certain legal constraints.
We will remove the “For Sale” board within 48 hours of completion or upon your request and refund your deposit.
Your property will remain advertised until sold or you instruct us to the contrary.
We will provide you the Seller by Owner, an exterior digital photograph in jpeg format to enable you to place additional advertisements with a newspaper of your choice, if you so wish.
We consider any householder is more than capable of selling their own property with the right advice and access to the same services that Estate Agents use. We do not make financial gain from the subsequent sale of your property through commissions or charges; we are therefore not conventional Estate Agents.
We merely provide you the Seller, with all the details, tools, information, advertising, confidential answer service, photographic service and sign erection service that enables you to sell your property at a fraction of the cost that Estate Agents would charge.
Why do Estate Agents charge so much? We honestly don’t know. What we do know is that their annual profits are huge. This profit only comes from one source, You the Seller.
Financial Mail on Sunday 28th November 2004. Article “For Sale by Owner”
“ Successful sellers say they can’t believe how little they had to do to generate a sale and can’t see how estate agents could have justified payouts of thousands of pounds for the same job”
Whilst we have no problem with anyone making a profit, we consider some of the charges and costs Estate Agents charge are obscene and we therefore offer an alternative to you the seller.
An Estate Agent does not only generate income solely from the sale of your property.
If you wish to see an example of an average Estate Agents Income stream go to the without prejudice page.