Archive for 2010

When internet entrepreneur Chris Sargisson decided to sell his house he also decided there should be a cheaper way of doing it.

Four years later his business, House Revolution, employs 10 people and has sold more than £40m worth of property – including his own home.

And now he has his sights set on national growth and £1m turnover in 2012.

Mr Sargisson, whose background is in real estate and online businesses, says House Revolution is simple – by getting the customer more involved in the process through the internet they can see the costs of selling a home and see and control … Continue Reading

Or so said French anarchist Pierre-Joseph Proudhon during the French Revolution in 1840. It roughly translates as ‘Property is Theft’ !

Personally its the Estate Agents commission that is the current ‘Theft’ in property these days and whilst I cant condone vandalism its interesting to see the recent student anarchist taking up our cause

January will see the increase of VAT from its current 17.5 % to 20% Eeek! ….VAT of course is felt most on big ticket items, like your estate agency bill.

Did you know that, based on the average house price of £167,000 and by using an average estate agents fee of say 1.5% your total estate agency costs are going to be £2943 and £438 pounds of this cost will be the VAT? This might go a little way to explain why nearly all estate agents quote their costs as a percentage adding “oh, plus VAT” at the end

Come January the … Continue Reading

An excert from a recent Q & A with local magazine. Quite interesting:

How many staff are currently employed at the company?
We currently employ 11 staff and expect this to increase next year. We’ve taken additional space at our premises in Thorpe Road to enable this expansion to occur.
What was included in the 2009 expansion programme for the business – eg London borough office?
2009 was a particularly difficult year in the property market, and whilst we intended to expand out of the Norfolk area, in practice the conditions did not make economic sense. Therefore we continued to focus on our … Continue Reading

Norwich property prices drop for Christmas
Zoopla have reported today that the number of ‘discounted’ properties for sale in the UK has increased by 13% over last 3 months and a  further £500m has been slashed off UK asking prices since August of this year.The average reduction of 6.1% (£15,879) from initial asking price, 8% on properties over £1 million.

Norwich has been highlighted as the city second in the list for reduced prices. 46.8% of property have had an average price reduction of 5.92% or £12,478.
Begs the question, have the agents reduced their fees?
Full report can be found here: … Continue Reading

I really know we have got this business model right. Our customers love us, our competitors don’t and I’m very happy to work in that environment.

We are not ‘online estate agents’. We are the New Breed of estate agents. A revolution for a whole industry.

Our business is estate agency therefore we are are estate agents and as such we do everything an estate agent is expected to do. We are members of the National Association of Estate Agents and regulated by the corporate ombudsman and OFT.

• We visit every house we sell
• We accurately value property
• We write the details
• We take the photos
• We … Continue Reading
  

4 years ago I had no option but to pay an estate agent £6000 to sell my house. I simply wanted to understand how my money was going to be spent. No one was able or willing to provide this essential info so I went about building a business that could do the job better, charge the correct fee and allow the consumers to become more involved in whole process.

Today my biggest challenge is not house sales. Whilst the market … Continue Reading

Launched on Bonfire night 4 years ago House Revolution, the Norwich based low cost estate agency group, is preparing to celebrate its Birthday with the fantastic news that a new report has positioned House Revolution as the 6th most successful in the UK .

The report, commissioned by The Big Property List, undertook a comparison of online agents looking at their prices, services, year established and the quality and popularity of their websites.

The quality of each online estate agent’s website was judged using an online tool … Continue Reading

We’ve had some interesting feedback recently from one of our many happy customers, that when she’s talked about House Revolution to her friends, she didn’t get the response she expected. They said that they know about us, they get what we do, but didn’t think we could help them as their houses were of high value. They seemed to think that House Revolution is only for the cheaper end of the market.

That couldn’t be further from the truth -House Revolution is capable of selling any property and the more your home’s worth, the more you stand to save (compared to … Continue Reading

According to the European Commission Estate agents come second to bottom in being the biggest rip-offs in Britain and also across Europe as a whole, a new study has shown.

Customers were polled about such factors as trust, customer satisfaction, complaints, ease of switching and cost.

I agree! Why else would I have started House Revolution?

I pleased to say that our customer satisfaction levels are amazingly high, our £999 + vat cost represents the best value for money in the industry with a genuine No sale No fee No contract package !

Spread the word readers, there is a better way