Letting your property privately VS Internet letting agents

Most estate agents ( high street or internet) advertise to renters through internet portals such as Rightmove and Findaproperty. These portals showcase to millions of tenants and receive millions of unique hits everyday. As an Ombudsman registered letting agent UrbanSalesandLettings have memberships to ALL top portals and many more.

UrbanSalesandLettings typically perform everything that a high street agent will but do not have costly overheads of a shop front which means we can keep our costs to the Landlord down.

Our basic Sales Pack is just £49.95 and includes the following

• On-line marketing on the UK's major portals websites until let, please click here to find out where we advertise.
• Log-in account function to update photos and make unlimited amendments
• Enquiries summary report
• Provision of Tenancy Agreement.
• Matching suitably registered tenants with your property.
• Administration of all interest in your property, including arranging viewings with prospective tenants. Assisted viewings during normal office hours available on request.
• Negotiation of all offers between tenant and landlord.
• No Tenant fees.
• On-going support from our experienced advisors.

Many Landlords are turning to letting their properties privately these days. The age of the internet has made this much more possible. However the costs between letting privately and letting  using an Internet agent (Such as UrbanSalesandLettings) can be very comparable and yet the benefits of UrbanSalesandLettings far out weigh the route of letting your home privately.   

When you let your property privately you will need to decide how to market your property. Most Landlords will opt for newspaper and internet advertising. The most common websites which offer exposure to the internet are, Houseladder.co.uk and the Loot each costing over £100 for more than a weeks advertising. 

Apart from the internet placing advertisements in local newspapers and magazines is an effective method however weekly costs mount up quickly.

If you were to utilise the above websites to sell your home privately, a newspaper advertisement for 2 weeks and a Private for sale board you would quickly build up around £250 in marketing costs (Internet advertising £70, Newspaper £120, Board £50) and your exposure on the internet would be minimal in comparison to the internet portals available to the high street estate agent and UrbanSalesandLettings.

The top property portals in the UK are as follows:

1.       Rightmove.co.uk

2.       Findaproperty.com

3.       Primelocation.com   

4.       PropertyFinder.com

5.       Globrix

6.       Zoopla

7.       Nestoria

8.       Fish4homes

9.       Hotproperty

10.    Homesandproperty

Only Fish4homes and Globrix are available as part of the package included in the private letting websites whereas UrbanSalesandLettings are members of ALL the top ten portals and many more.

Our unrivalled internet marketing will ensure your property is showcased to as many buyers as possible far outweighing the choice of letting privately. The main driver for letting privately is to keep costs down whereas using an internet estate agent can keep costs far lower than marketing yourself and increase your exposure 10 fold.