Hello. Any experience of Cambridge Estate agents? We have had valuations from haart, Tucker Gardner and Bradshaws. Has anyone had an experience of any of them? Are there any others we should speak to? Haart are the most expensive for us as they have a flat fee which would be more than the 1% the others quoted. They have also valued the highest whereas TG have valued the property relatively lower. Any advice welcomed!

We're a 3 bed for less than £200K if that makes a difference.

I didn't use any if them but was never impressed by haart or their ads. I always flicked past that page in the local property paper.

How quickly do you want to sell? Better to get slightly less than nothing if you xan't afford to wait. If you can wait, then after Christmas is a better time than now to put a house on the market

I have no idea about agents but why wait until after Christmas? We are looking at properties atm so there are buyers about.

There is a house we like (though can't afford unless they accept a bit of a price cut) so we are thinking of putting it on now to see if we can get a good price before Christmas. If we don't get anything we might take it off and try again in the spring. It would be better for us to sell quickly but it wouldn't be the end of the world if we had to wait.
We actually bought the house from Haart and I remember we didn't feel great about them as buyers but can't remember why.

You might want to try Tylers, they shift things pretty quickly round here.

Good luck and hope you get the property you are after

Oooh ruby am very interested you are on Cambridge local! Does that mean we should be offering on houses before we have sold? Is that how it works round here (sorry if this breaks some sort of mumsnet etiquette about talking about another thread on a thread).
We offered on the house we liked in our village but then got scared we were doing the wrong thing after reading MN. We are in quite a weak position and would need to get at least 5% of the asking price if we are to afford the house we want.

Thanks

Ah yes - you were on the other thread I started!

I see no problem with making an offer tbh. Do you know how keen they are to move? If they have found somewhere they my not be keen to accept it but if they are still looking they may appreciate not being pressurised.

I'm South Cambs btw.

It's someone looking to downsize and I've got the impression she is not that fussed about leaving her home! She did say she'd seen things she was interesed in. Maybe we should go back to her when we have the house on the market as it makes us look more serious than before. Thanks for the advice.

Well prices are fairly stable at the moment so she may be happy to hang on if she's downsizing.

I wish we could find something!

In my mind we are going to buy the house though realistically I am not sure she will accept what we can afford (which isn't enough for around here!).

Hope you find something soon.

Thanks - I thought we had found 'the one' on Friday and got very excited but no. I'm now comparing everything to that one! <<frustrating>>

I think Tucker Gardners are good - they sold our house very efficiently.

Hello, we had what I felt was a low valuation from Tylers and a high valuation from Tucker Gardner (40k between the 2) when we sold our Chesterton house 3 years ago, we ended up using Bush, who came in in the middle.

We bought from Tylers in a northern village though and they were fine to deal with as a buyer.