Thank you to everyone who has responded so far. All feedback has been useful and thought provoking.I found another source of info, which I thought I would share in case it could be useful to other sellers. On the moneysavingexpert.com website there's a forum called House Buying, Renting & Selling. I posted a message on there with the subject "Using an online estate agent to sell a property". As on here, I've had some helpful responses. The most recent one said, "We sold via Housenetwork and found them to be great. We started off with local agents, but having tried 3 and found them all to be awful for various reasons, we decided to try Housenetwork.For starters, the photos they did were FAR better than any of the ones the local agents did for us, the photographer did an excellent job. It was easy for us to amend the property details, and easy to swap around for ourselves as to which was the 'cover' photo which shows on the list view in Rightmove.We used this to play around and see what increased our click-throughs, and also found that amending certain listing details would prompt our house to show in the results on Rightmove when people searched for recently listed properties.The online system for logging and responding to viewing requests worked great, and they seemed to request feedback from viewers for us.All in all we were very satisfied and next time we move, will be using them.A bonus that it only cost us £400 in fees too, instead of 1% plus with a local EA."
Colin Richards ● 3233d