Estate agent fees UK: what estate agents fees actually cover, and the agent fees for selling a house you are left paying
An agent's fee is a percentage of a price nobody has agreed yet, plus VAT, and it is the largest single line a seller pays. This site works it out on your own numbers instead of a national average: the fee, the VAT on it, the conveyancing and the certificate, and the figure that is left when the mortgage is redeemed.
For the agency, not just the seller
The same sheet, kept against the client, with your name on it and your figures in it.
The sum a valuation actually produces, kept where you can find it again
- Commission and fixed fee side by side, on the same VAT footing. Sellers compare quotes stated in different forms and conclude the wrong thing. Put both into the sheet, settle the VAT question once, and the comparison is honest.
- What the seller keeps, not what the sale costs. The number that decides whether the onward purchase works is the sale price less everything, including the mortgage redeemed. That is the figure the sheet ends on.
- The sheet still exists three months later. A figure quoted at a valuation and then argued about at completion is a bad afternoon. Pro keeps every sheet you have saved, under the name and date you gave it.
Netsheetly Pro
Keep this sheet under the name of the sale it was worked for, put your agency's name on it instead of ours, and send it as a document rather than a screenshot. Netsheetly Pro is £14 a month for the whole agency, billed monthly.
