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Brexit 2017- Rupert Cattell, Managing Director, Ownersellers Limited

 

Brexit 2017,  The Highs and Lows of 2016  &  The Future of High Street Agents – Valuable Comments via Video Interview of  Rupert Cattell, Managing Director, Ownerellers Limited

House Sellers are you interested in Selling your House for Free Online? If Yes Ownersellers can do it for you

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Airport Properties Flying

Buy to let property investors will be interested to hear that homes near airports carry a premium price, despite apparent drawbacks such as noise and air pollution, according to research from online estate agent OwnerSellers.
The survey found that houses within the same postcode as Manchester Airport cost 73 per cent more than similar properties in the surrounding area. Meanwhile, living near Birmingham International Airport bolsters prices by 43 per cent, whilst homes near East Midlands Airport can add up to 25 per cent to property prices.
Although the trend was found unlikely to affect properties near the London airports of Heathrow, Gatwick and Stanstead, the presence of an airport in an area can boost the local jobs market and improve infrastructure, often making the postcode more desirable.
House price premiums in other airport cities were found to be 18 per cent for Leeds, 13 per cent for Bristol, 8 per cent for Edinburgh, 7 per cent for Luton, 5 per cent for Newcastle and 2 per cent for Liverpool.
Founder of Ownersellers, Rupert Cattell, said: ‘Homeowners have always considered areas near airports a disadvantage because of noise and traffic, however, this research conclusively demonstrates house prices near airports are undoubtedly soaring. Airports are almost always excellently linked to city centres and business hubs by train and road networks, giving residents who live in the area a great advantage when it comes to travelling and commuting. Anybody planning to grow their investment should not dismiss areas near airports – this could be a gateway to significant capital growth.’

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Focus On Holloway: How the area went from “no-go area” to a thriving hotspot for independent businesses

Focus On Holloway: How the area went from “no-go area” to a thriving hotspot for independent businesses

Holloway may be one of the oldest neighbourhoods in north London, but it hasn’t always been popular.

Londoners who weren’t Arsenal fans might only pass through to get on to the M1 and its infamous women’s prison on Parkhurst Road hardly does wonders for its reputation. For a long time, its only cultural claim to fame was The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, written by Douglas Adams in a house on Kingsdown Road.
“Look back a decade and Holloway was a no-go area,” says Rupert Cattell, founder of online estate agent OwnerSellers.com. But, in the Nobel prize-winning words of Bob Dylan, times they are a-changin’. The opening of the Emirates Stadium in 2006 kick started a regeneration project to transform some 60 acres in N7 and N5, bringing new business and 3,000 homes to the area.
And nowhere is this more apparent than on Holloway Road, the main artery that runs through the area. “The two mile road is home to the third largest concentration of independent retailers in the capital and its diverse mix of shops closely reflects the area’s changing fortunes,” says David Fell, research analyst at estate agent Hamptons International.
“It runs through the heart of Holloway and marks where the development of North London began in the 1820s. Architects from every era have since made their mark leaving five storey Victorian townhouses jostling for space with 1960s offices and 90s flats.”
You can chart this change in the area’s landmarks, from the Victorian prison, to the grand Odeon cinema bombed during WWII to the brutalist modernity of Daniel Libeskind’s London Metropolitan University building.

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Rightmove accused of shutting down competition by removing free online estate agent from its site

Rightmove has been accused of trying to shut down its competition by removing a free online estate agent from its property listings. Owner Sellers, an estate agent which charges no commission, has been de-listed from Rightmove for allegedly breaching its terms and conditions, but has said the allegations are false.

HOUSE PACKAGE

HOUSE PACKAGE

OwnerSellers.com is a revolutionary concept in the sale of properties. It allows you to sell your home for 0% Commission. There are no strings attached. We are the world’s first free online estate agency

Yes that’s right there are
NO COMMISSION FEES
NO UPFRONT CHARGES
NO EXIT OR CANCELLATION FEES  

You list your home by simply registering with us, it’s that simple!

We will write your advert. Your property is then advertised on some 60+ websites ABSOLUTELY FREE.

When you get an enquiry about your property you will be emailed with the details of your buyer specifying when they would like to view the property or with any questions they might have. If you want to see more about your buyer their details will be in your Account page.
You can then reply to your buyer and arrange a mutually convenient time to view the property. 

HOW CAN WE DO THIS? 
You can list your House for sale ABSOLUTELY FREE on OwnerSellers.com. There are no listing fees and no sales commission. Your property will also be listed on some 60+ other websites putting your advert in front of an audience of millions. 
We are the UK’s first FREE ONLINE ESTATE AGENCY.

Further services are available at an additional cost. You can edit your shopping basket before buying.

http://www.ownersellers.com/house-package.php

SELLING A BUSINESS

SELLING A BUSINESS

We will advertise and market your business on over 60 websites absolutely free.
There are no listing fees, no commission to pay and no hidden clauses. We are the world’s first free online business transfer agency.
You list your business by registering with us; we will help you write your advert and start advertising and marketing it online via the major business sale portals. You can amend your advert at any time. When we get an enquiry from a potential buyer, we notify you by e-mail or text and you can log in to your account to see the buyer’s details and choose to contact them. You can ask them to sign a non-disclosure agreement if you like.
We also offer you a guide to selling your business, which includes a chapter on business valuations. You can set your asking price for your business at any price you want but please remember that if you actually want to sell your business then you need to price it sensibly and realistically.
Our service is completely free. If you want additional help, we can prepare an information memorandum for your business for £150+vat. Most small business transactions are simple, but if things get complicated and you need professional advice, we have experienced business brokers on hand to help you for an additional fee.
Why pay a broker huge commissions for doing something you can do yourself for free?

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How flaws in the capped commission model are taking investors for a ride

How flaws in the capped commission model are taking investors for a ride

Savills recently bought an undisclosed stake in YOPA, lending credence to the shift towards an online estate agency model.  The property giant acknowledged what we’ve known for some time – buyers and sellers explore their options after hours and on weekends, and are keen to use self-service features if it will save them money.
The real estate industry is watching with baited breath as millions are pumped into hybrid estate agencies such as Purple Bricks and YOPA. Touted as revolutionary disruptions to the industry, they offer vendors the opportunity to self-manage their listing in exchange for a capped commission from £780 and upwards. Obviously, this is fantastic news for sellers who save thousands, but the maths simply don’t add up.
There are two reasons for this:

• Estate agencies operate on the 80/20 principle. 80% of their profits come from 20% of their property sales. The smaller commission fees pay their overheads but it’s the big fees that make the profits. However in an on-line agency there is never that opportunity to earn a big fee. All their fees are small and yet they have the same or in fact bigger overheads than high street agencies. The more properties an on-line agency lists the more salespeople they have to employ and the bigger their overheads. Their costs and their revenue lines never decouple.

• On-line agencies cannot achieve economies of scale because customers expect the same service as is offered by high street agencies even though they are paying a fraction of the fees. In fact because they’re paying an upfront fee they expect a higher level of service from an on-line agency than a high street agency such as night-time and week-end email and telephone answering, which increases the overhead costs further.

How a free online estate agency is different
Ownersellers examined the existing agency model and rejected it. Rather than trying to run an agency with high overheads, a large employed salesforce and a low, flat revenue stream, Ownersellers minimises its overheads while still having one salesperson per property dedicated to selling that property. That salesperson is the property owner, who is motivated and committed to achieving the best sale price.
By creating the world’s first service enabling people to sell homes online for free, we’ve broken free of the scalability problem that will soon see the other on-line agencies dropping out. Operating completely online and with growth based on providing exceptional value, we believe that Ownersellers will be around long after the capped commission ride is over.

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House Package

OwnerSellers.com is a revolutionary concept in the sale of properties. It allows you to sell your home for 0% Commission. There are no strings attached. We are the world’s first free online estate agency

Yes that’s right there are
NO COMMISSION FEES
NO UPFRONT CHARGES
NO EXIT OR CANCELLATION FEES

You list your home by simply registering with us, it’s that simple!
We will write your advert. Your property is then advertised on some 60+ websites ABSOLUTELY FREE.
When you get an enquiry about your property you will be emailed with the details of your buyer specifying when they would like to view the property or with any questions they might have. If you want to see more about your buyer their details will be in your Account page.
You can then reply to your buyer and arrange a mutually convenient time to view the property. 

HOW CAN WE DO THIS?
You can list your House for sale ABSOLUTELY FREE on OwnerSellers.com. There are no listing fees and no sales commission. Your property will also be listed on some 60+ other websites putting your advert in front of an audience of millions. 
We are the UK’s first FREE ONLINE ESTATE AGENCY.
Further services are available at an additional cost. You can edit your shopping basket before buying.

OPTIONAL EXTRAS

Floor Plans, EPC and Photos
If you need Floor Plans, Photographs and/or an EPC then these are available to purchase. Once you have paid, our agent will contact you within 24 hours to arrange your home visit. Our agent will take professional internal and external photos, produce your Energy Performance Certificate, take full measurements and produce a floor plan - just like a high street estate agent. We will then prepare your advertisement and email it to you for approval within 2 working days of your home visit. Once you have approved it then your advertisement will go live on some 60+ websites.


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How it Works

How it Works

OwnerSellers.com is a revolutionary concept in the sale of properties. It allows you to sell your home for 0% Commission.
There are no strings attached. We are the world’s first free online estate agency

Yes that’s right there are

NO COMMISSION FEES
NO UPFRONT CHARGES
NO EXIT OR CANCELLATION FEES

You list your home by simply registering with us, it’s that simple!
We will write your advert. Your property is then advertised on some 60+ websites ABSOLUTELY FREE.
When you get an enquiry about your property you will be emailed with the details of your buyer specifying when they would like to view the property or with any questions they might have. If you want to see more about your buyer their details will be in your Account page.

You can then reply to your buyer and arrange a mutually convenient time to view the property.
How do we do it?
We are turning the market on its head and will be charging buyers a micro subscription fee to receive the full contact details of all properties that interest them.

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Why ‘you get what you pay for’ is a myth

Why ‘you get what you pay for’ is a myth

It seems that whenever things aren’t going quite as planned, there’s always someone in the wings, ready to pop out and say it’s because you didn’t spend enough. The truth is price and value have long since parted ways, and paying more for something no longer provides the same guarantee of value it once did.
Quite the opposite actually. Some of the best, most successful and VITAL services being used today are free. In fact, if they tried to start charging even a single pound, users would riot.
Not because the services aren’t providing sufficient value, but because the benchmark has been set at zero cost.
Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest…all free.
Gmail, Outlook, Yahoo…all free.
LinkedIn, Jobsite, Monster…all free.
We couldn’t even imagine life without these services, yet flat out refuse to consider a user-pays system. Their value has nothing to do with the price.
There are some in the real estate industry who are challenging the benchmark of high commissions, realising that the way buyers and sellers interact has changed and the old system is no longer viable. Some allow commission haggling, some charge a fixed commission, while some others charge a flat listing fee. While any estate agent that challenges the status quo of archaic years gone by is to be applauded, we believe they don’t go far enough.

The year ‘free’ became the new normal
Ownersellers is the first agency in the world to not just re-evaluate the old commission system, but to forcibly wipe it out. We’re doing exactly the same things as other agents who have attempted to be more competitive, but we’ve gone even further. To zero commission. Free.
We don’t believe sellers should pay 1.5-2% commission + VAT just to put a listing on the major estate sites. We don’t even believe sellers should pay £700 like other online agencies charge. You’re doing the work to sell your property – why should any hand be taking money from your pocket?
Ownersellers gives back the control and sets a new benchmark for the industry. Free.
You have full flexibility of viewing times, there are no hidden catches or fine print, and you still get the same service that used to cost thousands.
We’re real people, providing real value. We just happen to be the first.

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Want to sell like a pro? Staged properties sell 73% faster

Want to sell like a pro? Staged properties sell 73% faster

5 tips for writing an advert that turns browsers into buyers
It’s so exciting, you’re ready to make a change and move to a new property! But before you can get stuck into planning your new décor, you have to tell the world how great your current home is and convince them to make a great offer.
Brainstorm everything you know, love and loathe about it
This includes the good, the bad, and the indifferent.
4 bed, 2 bath? Great.
Catches warm morning light in the breakfast nook? Awesome.
Drive a little overrun with plants? Not a deal breaker.
Providing concrete facts and capturing the buyer’s imagination is what makes a listing great, so arm yourself with knowledge and the next steps will be more fun than you realise.
Identify key info you plan to include
Certain facts about the property must go in, so start with them. Size, location, expected features. Lay them out clearly.
It may seem better to leave off some details (like your wildly overrun driveway), a buyer could potentially find charm in them, so try and make interesting points instead. The drive isn’t overrun, it’s naturally private and secluded.
Focus on the positive!
Using historic information or other unique facts about the property and surrounds to give it character.
Target Audience
Consider the potential buyer you want to attract. Is your property best suited for a busy executive? Or do you want to attract a larger family?
Writing a narrative will help customise your advert to attract the audience you think will be best suited to your property. Set the scene for imagination so potential buyers can view themselves making it their home.
Don’t forget to leave them wanting more by leaving some mystery – think about your target audience and what would make them pick up the phone. For example, a children’s playhouse is a great value-add for a young family property, so hint at how amazing it is by referring to it as a “tea-party paradise”. You’re allowed to have a little fun with your listing body!

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Do you cyber snoop on your neighbours' property listings?

Do you cyber snoop on your neighbours' property listings? 

BRITAIN has become a nation of property snoops who constantly search for the value of homes owned by friends, family and neighbours

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4 Real Estate Trends That Show a Changing Industry

Buying a house is often the largest financial decision people make in their lives, which means it’s not something they take lightly.

That’s why it’s so important for industry-leading real estate brokerages like Redfin to have a spot-on understanding of what consumers truly want.
How are people buying homes? Why are they buying them? How’s the market changing with the addition of variables like technology? And perhaps, most important: What do customers think of Redfin and other alternatives to the traditional brokerage model?

 The answers to these types of questions tell us a lot about the current state of real estate, which has been the focus of a lot of attention from both Wall Street and Silicon Valley. They also help Redfin, the next-generation real estate brokerage and SurveyMonkey customer, understand the needs of consumers in order to serve them better.

To get these answers, Redfin commissioned SurveyMonkey Audience to survey to 2,134 people who had bought or sold homes in the past two years to ask them about their experience. Of the respondents, 84 had used Redfin

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Top 10 Features of a Profitable Rental Property

Top 10 Features of a Profitable Rental Property 

 Looking to purchase a rental property? These are the factors that should be considered for income-producing real state

http://www.investopedia.com/articles/mortgages-real-estate/08/buy-rental-property.asp

From the first decision to invest in real estate to actually buying your first rental property, there is a lot of work to be done. This task may be daunting for the first-time investor. Owning property is a tough business and the field is peppered with land mines that can obliterate your returns. Here we'll take a look at the top 10 things you should consider when shopping for an income property.

Starting Your Search

​Although you may want a real estate agent to help you complete the purchase of a rental property, you should start searching for your investment on your own. Having an agent can bring unnecessary pressure to buy before you have found a property that suits you. The most important thing is to take an unbiased approach to all the properties and neighborhoods within your investing range.
Your investing range will be limited by whether you intend to actively manage the property (be a landlord) or hire someone else to manage it. If you intend to actively manage, you should not get a property that's too far away from where you live. If you are going to get a property management company to look after it for you, your proximity to the property will be less of an issue.

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You should never pay estate commission, and here’s why

You should never pay estate commission, and here’s why

You should never pay estate commission, and here’s why:

Selling your house? Two things jump right out:

“I need to get it listed on RightMove,” and “I’ll have to pay a fortune in commissions.”

Only one of these statements is true.

Online listings reach buyers worldwide

Buyers are online, searching listings from far and wide, browsing for one which captures their imagination and they can see themselves living happily in. They enter their criteria and consume the photos hungrily, knowing their ideal property is just one click away.

Buyers are not lining up at the local agency office, begging to see the big book of listings.

The market has changed, because buyer expectations have changed.

Why haven’t seller expectations changed with them? The days of calling the local agent and having them over for a coffee are gone. To be listed on RightMove you do need to go through an agency, but it definitely doesn’t need to be a commission hungry agency stuck in an old fashioned billing model.

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