The YouMove Guide to Selling

Guide to Selling

Introduction

At YouMove our aim is to bring an end to the frustration and cost of using an estate agent and put you in control.

The key to this is to make selling your home easy.

This simple, step by step, guide is designed to do just that.

We look at the benefits of selling privately in our separate guide "The Advantages of Private Sale".

Still, it's worth asking why more people aren't selling privately given the clear advantages of doing so. We think the key reason is as follows:

It's always been in the interests of those in the trade of selling houses to make the process sound as daunting and as complicated as possible. (How else can they justify charging thousands in commission simply for finding a buyer?)
Because of this, there's a great deal of mystique and confusion around what is essentially a very simple process.
The hard part of the sale is the legal work and that's nothing to do with the estate agent — it's all carried out by your conveyancing solicitor and you pay for it separately.

We see our role at YouMove as being to educate and empower people. Like lifting the curtain to reveal the Wizard of Oz we want to bring the selling process into the daylight (and into the 21st century).

Perpetuating the myth that selling property is hard has allowed estate agents to keep charging high commission rates, costing home owners thousands each time they sell, even though the internet is the perfect medium for finding a buyer privately.

We aim to change this by giving our users the tools and insights to make it easy to take control of the process themselves.

Below, we've set out the steps you need to follow to successfully sell your home. You'll see that most of them are things you would have to do yourself anyway, even if you did pay an estate agent.

Once you've seen how simple selling is we think you'll understand why we believe that before long a majority of sellers will abandon estate agents altogether and choose to sell privately instead. (Just as most people sell their own cars.)

So, here are the 7 steps to selling your own home: