When selling your home it is imperative that you carefully choose the right estate agent to represent you. The quality and experience of estate agents vary with many offering numerous additional services when what you want is to sell your home for the best possible open market value.
Standard estate agent responsibilities include:-
Taking full and detailed information about the property, each room and producing a simple and accurate narrative about the property, its location and main features.
Completing a multi picture presentation with a floor plan and measurements of all rooms.
Promoting your property online along with local marketing to a buyer database.
Dealing with all enquiries efficiently and with knowledge of the property being enquired about.
Pre-qualification of the person / people enquiring to ascertain their residential position.
Conducting all viewings with accurate feedback after the appointment.
Offers are to be fully qualified and submitted with the facts to the seller and advice given to help achieve the best offer.
Once an offer has been accepted the agent should progress the sale with regular updates to the seller on the progress of the chain until exchange of contracts.