Selling Property Privately When With an Estate Agent

You are able to sell your house privately and have it with an estate agent depending on the contract with your estate agent.

When you use an estate agent to sell your property, you have to sign a legally binding contract. The contract should be read carefully to make sure you understand it fully.

1. 'Sole selling' means your Estate Agent is the only one with the right to sell your house. Even if you find a buyer yourself, you'll still have to pay the agent.
2. 'Sole agency' also means the Estate Agent is the only one with the right to sell your house but if you find a buyer yourself, you won't have to pay the Agent the commission but may have to pay for the advertising costs such as for sale board.
3. 'Multi agency' means that you can choose several Estate Agents to market your house but you will only have to pay commission to the one who sells it.
4. 'Ready, willing and able purchaser' is a contract. If the Estate Agent finds you a buyer and you later withdraw from the sale, you'll still have to pay them.

For further information see the 'Using an estate agent - selling a property' section in the Office of Fair Trading website

This means 'sole agency' does not prevent you from selling your house yourself either vis newspapers or by an internet property portal site such as www.niproperty4sale.com. This is providing you do not try and deceive the estate agent by selling the property to a buyer they introduced.

'Sole Selling Rights' means the estate agent has to be paid however the property was sold.

At NIproperty4sale.com we do not participate in negotiations between buyers and sellers and do not act on either behalf. Niproperty4sale.com is a property portal website where you market your property that brings buyers and sellers together in the same way as adverts in the local newspapers. Sellers deal with buyers directly and arrange own viewings and terms of sale.

If you have your property with an estate agent we advise you to be honest with the estate agent and tell them you will honour them by paying the commission if they introduce the buyer.