However, one thing you can be assured of is that purchasers actively viewing properties in the cold harsh winter are normally not time-wasters and often serious about doing a deal and moving quickly.

We’ve complied our top five do’s and dont’s for selling your house or flat in Winter:

1) Try to avoid night-time viewings. Without natural light, homes look smaller, neighbourhoods feel more intimidating and stand out features of your property are often overlooked.

2) Don’t allow your property to sit idly by in agents’ windows and property websites over the Xmas period so that it looks old by the time January comes around. Ask your agent to temporarily remove it from their website until schools go back so that it appears fresh to new buyers.

3) Do be flexible on viewings. If a potential buyer wants to see your home at this time of year, they are usually serious. However, there are enough distractions around now to help them lose focus. With that in mind, if someone wants to view your property at a time convenient to them, then do your best to accommodate them before they have time to change their mind.

4) Don’t assume your home will be worth more after the New Year. In the boom years, you could bank on London house prices rising every January  / February as city bonuses were paid and then spent soon afterwards. However, bonus pots have been slashed and what is paid is now normally deferred as long-term incentives. The best offer for your home might well be the offer you have now.

5) If all else fails, remember that SecureASale is still buying London properties. Call one of directors on 020 7117 6001 for a confidential chat about your circumstances and a guaranteed offer on your home.

While this is possibly true for many parts of the economy, the one sector that has seen sustained growth is residential property prices in London. With prices rising at an average annual rate of around 7% for the past 2 years, you could be forgiven for believing that house prices in London will keep on rising.

However, this does not take into account the extraordinary circumstances that have lead to record prices for prime central London. A combination of political instability in the Arab region, a historically very weak pound and perceived security in our capital has meant that London has come to be seen as the safest of safe havens for wealthy foreign owners and investors who almost always purchase for cash.

The mortgage market tells a different story with banks still reluctant to lend to even well-paid Londoners and transaction volumes still 70% below their 2007 peak. The property market is failing to gain momentum as first- time buyers struggle to afford a mortgage and inflation outpaces wage growth. Britons’ median income is expected to fall by about 7 percent in real terms in the three years through March 2013, the biggest 3-year drop for 35 years the Institute of Fiscal Studies said today.

With that in mind, many homeowners are now looking to sell their property for cash to a company like SecureASale before prices fall. We always buy for cash and there are no estate agency fees to pay if you sell to us directly.

Call one of our directors today on 020 7117 6001

With a realistic reserve price and a strong marketing campaign by the auctioneer, even a derelict property has a very good chance of selling on the day in the auction room.

However, even auctions cannot guarantee your sale. Now SecureASale is offering a brand new service to Guarantee your sale at the BEST possible price.

SecureASale auction underwriting allows you the peace of mind to know that your property will be purchased either by SecureASale itself or potentially for a higher price at an auction.

How does it work?

1 – If your property is situated within our catchment area of North London, North-West London, West London or Central London and meets certain criteria, SecureASale will offer you a guaranteed price that we will purchase your property at.

2 – We will then instruct one of panelled auctioneers to list your property for sale by auction at a higher reserve price than our offer.

3 – SecureASale will take care of all associated aucioneer’s and solicitor’s costs that you may incur.

4 – If the property sells for more than our offer in the auction, then SecureASale will take a success fee from the difference between our offer on your property and the eventual selling price.

5 – Should the property not sell at auction, then SecureASale will proceed to purchase your property at the earlier agreed price.

We believe this service offers the ideal opportunity to guarantee a sale while ensuring that you receive the best possible price for your home.

Please call one of our directors today to discuss how SecureASale can help you sell your property fast in auction.

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The majority of homeowners who have put their homes up for sale in 2011 are still without a buyer, according to Rightmove.co.uk.

The property website reveals that 70% of homeowners have failed to secure a sale.

As a result of the stagnant market, asking prices are being lowered by £3,797 on average.

Miles Shipside, director of Rightmove, says sellers tend to be more cautious in the summer months, explaining the lowered asking prices:

“Summer sellers are more nervous about their selling prospects than the early birds who asked ever higher prices during the first six months of this year.

“Early sellers in 2011 had a chance of worming their way into the more active spring market, whereas those coming to market now at the onset of the holiday season have to price more aggressively as many buyers have already gone to ground.”

In addition, the number of new sellers this month has dropped by 12% on figures for July 2010. Shipside cites a combination of factors contributing towards this fall, such as reduced buyer confidence – which also explains the £4,000 drop in asking prices, and sellers’ inability to raise sufficient deposits on potential new homes.

“Many equity-poor aspiring sellers will be trapped in their current homes, either unable to come to market or stuck on the market and unable to reduce to a price that will attract buyer interest.

“Those that are equity-rich have an opportunity to increase their chances of success by launching to the market at a price below their over-priced and stale competition,” adds Shipside.

Findings also show that the highest level of interest in properties is in the first week, so as Shipside says, “first impressions count”.

How to up your chances of a sell

Follow Rightmove’s three Ps to maximise your chances of selling your property:

Presentation

The first thing potential buyers will see is the front of your house, so make sure it looks neat and tidy – from mown lawns to fresh paintwork and neat flowerbeds. Once inside try and keep clutter to a minimum. The better your home appears, the better value your asking price will look.

Price

Don’t be overoptimistic with the pricing of your property as you will only put buyers off. It’s best to get a few valuations of your home’s worth so that you can come up with a realistic price.

Promotion

Don’t leave everything to your agent. It will have plenty of homes to sell so the only way to make yours a priority is to chase up your estate agent: ask how many viewings it has on the books, look online or in the shop to see where your home is listed – and see if there’s any way of bumping it up the listings.

Don’t forget, if you need to sell your property quickly, SecureASale can buy your home in under a week. We pay up to 90% of  the property’s value and there are no agency fees to pay. Call us on 020 7117 6001 for a no obligation, free valuation.

For more information or to help Secure Your Sale, speak to one of SecureASale’s directors on 020 7117 6001.

By being straightforward and upfront to deal with, the guaranteeing the offer price, we have maintained our position  as the top quick home buyer in London.

If you need to sell your home fast and want a quick sale, then call us on 020 7117 6001 to organise a free, no obligation quote.

We can help you stop repossession, sell an inherited property, move for job relocation purposes, sell property to fund a divorce, break a property chain or just move on.

We are London’s only direct cash property investor as we don’t pass delas in our area on to anyone else.

Secure Your Sale with SecureASale

Interest rates are predicted to rise later this year and as and when they do, repossessions will increase as homeowners once again struggle to meet their higher mortgage payments and prices may well fall further.

The good news is that as London’s leading cash homebuyer, SecureASale is purchasing homes in London NOW!

Call our directors on 020 7117 6001 for a free, no obligation offer. Whether you need to move for financial reasons, inheritance, job relocation, completing a chain or you just want to move on, London property buyers, SecureASale can help.

We are:

Camden property buyers

Hampstead Property Buyers,

West Hampstead Property Buyers,

Kilburn Property Buyers,

Willesden Green Property Buyers,

Kensal Rise Property Buyers

West Kensington Property Buyers,

Shepherds Bush Property Buyers,

Highgate Property Buyers,

Muswell Hill Property Buyers,

Notting Hill Property Buyers,

Crouch End Property Buyers,

Islington Property Buyers,

Harringay Property Buyers,

Belsize Park Property Buyers,

Kentish Town Property Buyers.

Firstly, unlike many of our competitors who are merely lead-generation outfits who pass customers’ details on to unproven individuals, at SecureASale, we purchase our properties ourselves for our own portfolio. Therefore, when we say we will buy your home, then we will buy your home.

Secondly, we have access to over £10 million cash funding at any one time and are actively looking to help people who need a quick home sale now.

Thirdly, we have our own panel of independent, trusted, London-based solicitors who work in an efficient and friendly manner and ensure that your sale goes through when YOU need it, not when it suits a random purchaser.

By acting in a straightforward, honest and clear way, SecureASale has earned a reputation as London’s leading fast home buyer.

If you need to sell your property, give one of our directors a call today on 020 7117 6001

Nigel Lewis, property analyst at FindaProperty.com, told MSN Money: “It is unlikely transactions will rise next year, and completion prices are likely to fall 3-5%, with a slow recovery predicted in 2012.”

Martin Ellis, housing economist at the Halifax, told MSN Money that, although interest rates are likely to remain low for some time, tight mortgage finance availability, along with modest earnings growth, tax rises and significant public sector job losses will all curb the market – thereby dampening house prices.

Factors Reducing House Prices

• More sellers than buyers. Very weak buyer demand.
• Distressed selling is becoming more prevalent particularly at the higher end of the market.
• Baby boomers and the inheritance generation are starting to liquidate assets as parents downsize, die, move to sheltered accommodation or just look to boost pension income.
• The financial squeeze and lack of consumer confidence may make matters worse. In particular, the prospect of spending cuts in 2011 is raising fears over a prolonged economic slump. Many jobs could be lost in the public sector with knock on effects.
• The mortgage and remortgage market remains in turmoil. In particular proposed mortgage regulation could make it even more difficult to get mortgages. For example, proposal to end interest only mortgages.
• As prices drop the equity against a mortgage drops and it is harder to remortgage.
• New property has come onto the market and has yet to become fully occupied.
• Buy to let investment has dramatically slowed down.
• First time buyers have lost confidence and have less savings for a sizeable deposit.
• The housing market is very nervous.

If you are considering a quick house sale in London, then please contact SecureASale today and speak to one of our directors about receiving a free, no obligation offer for your home.

Householders and landlords who were previously paying maybe £2000 per month on a variable or tracker mortgage often found their monthly payments falling by up to two thirds allowing them to successfully keep a roof over their family’s heads or hold on to that buy-to-let property that was previously losing them money.

With CPI inflation now at 4%, double the government’s target, most commentators are predicting an imminent rise in base rates and even Mervyn King, the governor of the Bank of England has stated in his letter to the Chancellor, George Osborne that he expects rates to rise this year ‘in line with expectations’.

A rise of just 2% in interest rates to a still historically low rate of 2.5% could well see many homeowners’ monthly mortgage payments double and analysts are expecting repossessions to rise substantially this year.

If you think that you may be adversely affected by an increase in your mortgage payments and that you may face repossession as a result, then call SecureASale today for a free, no obligation offer on your home. You might be surprised how much we are prepared to pay at the moment. When mortgage rates do begin to rise, we expect  house prices to suffer and the offer you receive for your property will not be as high as it could be currently.

If you own a house or a flat in London and are thinking of selling, then call London’s most established cash purchaser and secure a fast property sale today.