We live in silly-house-price land - aka Greater London, and the modest Victorian mid-terrace house we bought 14 years ago, and extended, is now worth an eye-watering £900K.
Our DCs are approaching their teens and shooting up in height so we want to move to something a little bigger, slightly further out. We've had one estate agent round so far, and their fee is 2.5%+VAT which works out around £27.5K 
. To me that seems completely excessive, and could influence whether we're able to afford the step up to a bigger property.
I've read loads of bad reviews here on Mumsnet and MoneySavingExpert about Purple Bricks, and they don't seem to have many properties around our way (3 in a 2 mile radius) suggesting they're not exactly booming in popularity, but there's a huge difference between their flat fee (£1199) and £27K. I'm aware there are other online agencies too. AIBU to be tempted by that route? If so, please tell me what the more traditional estate agent will do for their money as I need to be convinced.
AIBU?
To balk at £27k estate agency fee and consider the online alternative
lemsiptime · 28/02/2017 22:25
We sold our last house via Foxtons and paid 0% commission 
. They'd just opened an office in our area and to get stock on their books were offering 0% commission if you sold within 6 months of them opening. I found them excellent.
My sister sold the house I was renting from her and used Hatched. I dealt with them on her behalf and they were fantastic. It was so easy. I am a SAHM so was available to do viewings, but it sold on the 3rd one anyway. I think the whole thing cost about £2k because it was very cheap to go on their books and then a flat rate if it sold. But they were very good, did all the photos and admin and no buyers got our phone numbers
I have no clue why yous are paying thousands when we spent under £300 for our online agent 
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