Solicitor fees: Many real estate agents have their own solicitors and many have some arrangements. You can get opinion of real estate agent about solicitors but it is not always helpful because they will have their own solicitors. The best bet is to go for those solicitors who are recommended by many estate agents, although some solicitors will have arrangements of 2 or more estate agents.
Judge the solicitor efficiently.
(1) Check the attitude of solicitor how they are positive.
(2) How many experience they have.
(3) How many sales they have completed.
(4) Do they speak good English?
(5) Check how professional they are.
Phone the best solicitors and ask their charges. Their fees are negotiable. You can shave some $ off of their fees if you have evidence of more competitive quotes. They may refuse to shave their fee then you will have to make decision those extra buck is really worth full for you or not. Make a final decision about solicitor because when you change your solicitor after they start their convincing process for you, you will loose some bucks without getting anything.
Agent Fees:
All estate agent fees are negotiable. Make a list of estate agents who are member of NEFA. Approach them as a potential buyer and analyze what quality they have to attract the buyer. Good agents are those who are instantly active with new listing of properties. They will phone or email with information of new property. Once your property comes in the open market, keep your eyes on your estate agent. Make a call your estate agent as property buyer, give your false name and tell them that you are looking a property which description matches with your own property description. Now wait and see how fast they contact you for new property.
Use Multi Agency: If you are unhappy with your current estate agent, you can go for another estate agent. Your previous agent will try to lock your property. You should say the agent that you want to market your property by more than one agent. Tell them that you’ll keep them as an agent only if they will keep your fees at 1%. Agent will try to increase their fee up to 2.5%, if you go for multi agency. Agent will try to lock your property if you don’t accept. Never mind they can’t keep your property more than 1 week. Nobody wants to loose their business so they will certainly agree with you. Sack them if they are not agreed.
Money saving tips when you sell you house through real estate agent