Sell your home for £999, new website offers

Published: 4:41PM GMT 04 March 2010

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The iSold.com site is being run by Britain"s largest eccentric estate agent, Spicerhaart, in organisation with supermarket hulk Tesco.

It aims to suggest a "halfway house" in in in in between a normal high travel estate representative and an online service. It has 3 home-selling packages, with costs trimming from �999 to �1,299, compared with standard estate agents" fees of in in in in between 1pc and 2pc of the worth of the property.

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People receiving out the simple package will be since a gratefulness of their home and a For Sale sign, and have sum of their skill drawn up and advertised on Britain"s vital skill portals, together with Rightmove, FindaProperty and Globrix. There will additionally be a organisation in Spicerhaart"s branches who will manage the sale and assistance come to terms in in in in between buyers and sellers.

However, skill viewings will be organised in in in in between the seller and intensity buyers rather than by the estate agent. Home owners can additionally opt to compensate for additional services, such as an advert in the internal journal and open residence viewings carried out by an estate agent.

ISold has been launched in Bristol, with plans to enhance the use to Reading, York, Portsmouth, Southampton, Crawley, London, Kent, Leeds, Manchester and Birmingham in the nearby future.

The site states: "In the last 10 years a lot of things got easier, easier and improved value. But estate agents positively haven"t ... Until now."

Tesco is a key placement partner of the site, and will marketplace it to the commercial operation and by the website, nonetheless it will not be concerned in using it. The supermarket pulled out of the home offering marketplace in 2007, only weeks after rising the Tesco Property Market site, that helped people to sell their own skill for a cost of �199.

The website was deemed to be an estate organisation commercial operation by the Office of Fair Trading, that led to mandate for Tesco to yield services it had not programmed to offer. As a result, it sole the commercial operation on to Spicerhaart.

The organisation stressed currently that iSold was a really opposite tender from Tesco Property Market, as it was charity a full estate organisation service. The Tesco commercial operation had offering home owners a DIY pack to sell their home themselves, together with a For Sale pointer and report on how to upload photographs of their home on to the website.

Steve Shore, iSold.com spokesman, said: "ISold.com is an innovative new use that gives commercial operation preference about the turn of use they need to sell their home. We put buyers and sellers in carry out of the total relocating routine by permitting them to log in to their own area of the website, prepare viewings, email each alternative and perspective a accessible monthly calendar for keeping lane of appointments.

"All offers and negotiations are carried out by the consultant organisation from iSold.com to safeguard that the patron gets the most appropriate cost achievable."