The largest investment most of us make is the home that we live in. The value of your property investment is driven by a number of factors including current demand and supply of similar properties. So when you decide to cash in on your home how do you claim back the true value of your investment?
If you decided to sell your family gold you would take it to a specialist gold buyer and they would weigh it and work out an exact value and you would receive the correct amount. Simple. But for bricks and mortar this method isn’t available. A house cannot be weighed. There is no prescribed value per kilogram. There is no formula for working out the correct figure.
Instead the value of your property investment is decided by potential buyers. They visit your property and make offers to you, at which point you either accept or reject their figures, but eventually it is the buyers (or market) that decide the value. The higher the demand (more buyers) the higher the value, the lower the demand (less buyers) the lower the value.
So the biggest risk to the value of your property is a poor Estate Agent that cannot attract enough potential buyers. Budget Estate Agents will offer you a low fee but by definition they will offer a poorer service and provide you with less potential buyers. This translates into a lower property value and a poor return on your lifetime investment. You may save a few hundred quid in fees by using a budget Estate Agent but the huge danger is that they will undersell your property and cost you many many thousands of pounds.
Elizabeth Davenport are High Quality Estate Agents and are able to provide the maximum amount of potential buyers for your property, neutralising any possibility of it selling for below market value.
Don’t take a risk with your lifetime investment. Call Elizabeth Davenport for expert advice, a high quality service and the maximum return on your most valuable asset.
