Anyone sold their house privately? If so, how?

[tigerbear]

Just that, really.
Thinking of putting ours on the market soon and thinking we have nothing to lose by trying privately first (it helps that DP is an estate agent, so could do a lot of the viewings).
I recently saw someone post pics of their house on a Facebook group, and it seemed to generate a lot of comments, so will try that first.
Anyone sold theirs by other means?

We thought about doing this but realised that what we really needed was a listing on Rightmove to really reach as many people as poss.

So picked an online estate agent that only charged £99. Had an offer on the house within 2 weeks. And the online agents have actually been great.

Name change - which one did you use?

I used house network. 700 quid. But surely if dh is an estate agent?

We bought ours privately if that helps. Saw it was on the market. The agent refused to show it until another house sold in the locality - further away from where we wanted and more work needed and we’d alresdy put an offer on that house but didn’t hear anything (we’re in Ireland though).

We went direct to the seller - he said give it a month. Agent got them no viewings in that month. Even though we wanted to view. We have €5k over asking price if I remember correctly so as to ensure a sold price.

Took a little longer, as the solicitors did everything but it’s done and we’ve been here for 2.5 years now! I’d do it to sell if I could to ensure a fair game for all!

We sold a house privately. Ads in the Telegraph and a couple of others, tried Ebay but waste of time. I think it was the Telegraph one that sold it.

Also put one on an auction site, after being with agents who were pretty useless and kept bringing developers round when we had told them it couldn't be developed. Had a buyer come back after a few months from that, and made an offer but was taking too long. We then had a request to view from the auction site and an immediate offer, they were ready to go so sold it to them privately.

we sold privately via word of mouth. it was a hot market and a work colleague bought it after a viewing.

I sold my first flat to someone I knew through volunteering, that was pretty easy. DP just sold a house to her tenants. So neither of us had to advertise. But I've seen are in newspapers and magazines for private sales, I don't see that it would be any more complicated than selling via an estate agent - you'd still have a solicitor for the conveyancing.

Interesting, thanks for all the ideas...

I’ve had two agents round to do valuations, so think I’ll give it a go with the different options mentioned. Just thinking, might place an ad in local magazines too, could be found.?

We went with a company called Doorsteps.

My Mum did with a small ad in the local paper, back in the day (pre-internet)
A cousin did by going to view a house and got chatting and it became apparent the vendors were looking to downsize in the local area and they bought and sold from each other.
I know someone else who bought privately from friend of a colleague - just word of mouth "We're thinking of putting our house on the market" type conversation in the office, colleague mentioned their friend had been looking for a house in that area and put them in touch.

However, if your dp is an Estate Agent, why do you need to ask us ?