PAT Testing

If you choose to sell your property online or buy online it is of value considering the following tips. With a few of the more customer friendly sites you are able to position the details of your private home sale straight onto the page that your home is being shown this means that if you are a bit of a night owl or work through out the day you are able to enter your details as and when you feel like it rather than having to fit in with the site owners schedule. This makes sure that you can edit your information at any time be it sizes, descriptions or more importantly the price of your property. Often there is some sort of waver saying that the information is all provided by the client and wont necessarily contain the complete particulars.

When you are measuring up, make sure you give clear descripions of what dimensions you are giving, from a buyers viewpoint it is always worth questioning anything you arent sure of and most private sellers are more than pleased to answer any queries. The website that a house is being shown on will not have carried out a appraisal on the property and it will normally be upto the purchaser to have a surveyors report done on the house before exchanging contracts. Make sure you use a qualified contractor to test the appliances and equipment in a house, this will help you to negotiate price if anything is amiss. As a seller it is of value having any service information to hand to allow you to negotiate a better price. Make sure you involve a solicitor to look into all legal matters relating to the property (e.g. title, tenure, planning permission etc) as these are specialist issues that will not be sorted out by websites. A solicitor also agrees with the seller what things (e.g. carpets, curtains, fixtures & fittings, sheds etc) will or will not be built into the sale.
In other words, you must make sure for yourself all information before acting on it, in particular the current asking price, sizes of rooms, ownership, freehold, extent of refurbishments and any issues of definite consequence to you.