Lussac Posted October 13, 2014 Report Share Posted October 13, 2014 Not sure if this should be here or in the Lounge but we will be marketing our property next year and would like to create/or have created a website to market the property. Has anybody on here done this and can someone recommend some good (and easy) software that can be used to create the website, I already have my own domain so it will be hosted there. Also, any do's and don'ts regarding doing it this way, we are looking at doing it this way as estate agents in this part of the world aren't exactly pro-active and more or less rely on passing trade looking into the window. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarMad Posted October 13, 2014 Report Share Posted October 13, 2014 A colleague has just sold his using one of the DIY estate agents. He provided photos and they do the floorplan. It gets added onto all of the main search engine for selling your house and the agent will field calls for you initial only and you do all of the selling. It worked a dream and only cost him a few hundred ££ I think not thousands it might have cost using an estate agent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Calm Chris Posted October 13, 2014 Report Share Posted October 13, 2014 I sold my Mums property via a dIy web site and adverts linking to the site. It cost about £500 including all the adverts. Since it sold for £330k, I saved £6k not using an estate agent. Site should have a floor plan, a Google overhead image link, photos of all rooms and land / outbuildings, a link to area amenities such as schools, proximity to town etc, a precise of costs such as local property tax, energy use, gas, water, electric, oil. A precise of work undertaken and an honest report on what you have improved, what's left to do etc. Key for you is that it's in France and who you intend to market the property to (France only, UK, Europe) and how to extend the viewing audience. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lussac Posted October 14, 2014 Author Report Share Posted October 14, 2014 Thanks both for the info. will look into those types of sites in the new year. We will also be marketing in Australia, New Zealand, USA as well as the UK, Holland, Belgium and France as we have had people from all those countries arrive in this area in the last couple of years and they love it here, in fact some Americans rented our daughter's house for a year and have now bought and moved into their own place. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Booster Posted October 14, 2014 Report Share Posted October 14, 2014 Do we get a TSN preview? Returning to Blighty or staying on the continent? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lussac Posted October 15, 2014 Author Report Share Posted October 15, 2014 My other half thinks it's time to go back to the UK, she's worried about getting old and not being able to maintain the property as well as the usual missing grandchildren and friends, our daughter and son-in-law lived very close by and went to New Zealand where they stayed for a year then came back for a year but have now gone back to NZ permanently which hasn't helped. We've been here ten years this year and I'm not at all keen to go back and give up what we've got here but someone has to give and I'm afraid it's me, I've fought it off for more than a year but it's coming to a head now but on the bright side it may take a few years to sell!! It's not a small place we have it's 5/6 bedrooms 3 bathrooms plus an additional 2 bed cottage across the courtyard all set in 16 acres including a small carp lake and woodland. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lussac Posted October 15, 2014 Author Report Share Posted October 15, 2014 Here's a picture of the front of the property: 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NewNiceMrMe Posted October 16, 2014 Report Share Posted October 16, 2014 (edited) I sympathise, Lussac. I wouldn't be looking forward to coming back to the UK either. I would be off to North America if I had my way, but we have elderly relatives on MrsMe's side of the family and she would never move whilst they're around. Business commitments wouldn't stop us as we'd migrate those (or at least mine) but we would probably want to get our youngest through school too. If anything I can see us relocating South. I love the Northeast but I am absolutely sick and tired of the weather and temperature differences compared to the South. New Zealand would be a hard place to leave, I imagine. Edited October 16, 2014 by NewNiceMrMe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Torino101 Posted October 16, 2014 Report Share Posted October 16, 2014 That's beautiful Lussac, tricky to replicate anything like that in the UK. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tipex Posted October 16, 2014 Report Share Posted October 16, 2014 If anything I can see us relocating South. I love the Northeast but I am absolutely sick and tired of the weather and temperature differences compared to the South. I don't want to discourage you in any way, but it's not that great down here, honestly, it's not sunny today, oh no, and it's not 19.5c either, absolutely not, I'm not* lying either, honest. As for NZ, it's always been somewhere that's appealed to me, and the company that Mrs T works for have places out there that she could transfer to, which would make me a house husband, I can see that happening in the not too distant future. *I am. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NewNiceMrMe Posted October 16, 2014 Report Share Posted October 16, 2014 I don't want to discourage you in any way, but it's not that great down here, honestly, it's not sunny today, oh no, and it's not 19.5c either, absolutely not, I'm not* lying either, honest. As for NZ, it's always been somewhere that's appealed to me, and the company that Mrs T works for have places out there that she could transfer to, which would make me a house husband, I can see that happening in the not too distant future. *I am. You're right, it's not that great down there. It is better up here, but it is also a lot colder up here and I'm tiring of it rapidly. This year, whenever I've been travelling (and that has been a lot this year), the temperature gap has been anywhere between 3 to 10 degrees; never in favour of the NE. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chick Posted October 16, 2014 Report Share Posted October 16, 2014 it has indeed been sunny and t-shirt weather today in the South East :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patently Posted October 16, 2014 Report Share Posted October 16, 2014 You're right, it's not that great down there. It is better up here, but it is also a lot colder up here and I'm tiring of it rapidly. This year, whenever I've been travelling (and that has been a lot this year), the temperature gap has been anywhere between 3 to 10 degrees; never in favour of the NE. Soft Southern jessie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tipex Posted October 16, 2014 Report Share Posted October 16, 2014 You're right, it's not that great down there. It is better up here Lol, I'd have to disagree, naturally, but I suspect most people think wherever they live is 'better' else why would they live there? In all seriousness, Eastbourne has it's own micro climate, it's normally a few degrees warmer here than the rest of the South East, and we always have less rain and more sun, it has it's problems, mostly related to poor access, hence not being an ideal place for business, but one day we'll get a proper road built along the coast here. Otherwise, low crime, high wages (relatively speaking), reasonable property prices for the South East, clean, tidy and generally well kept, good schools and public services, I wouldn't personally want to live anywhere else in the UK, but I appreciate I'm biased. One thing about a warmer climate (but let's not kid ourselves, this is still England, not Spain), is that you find yourself outdoors a lot more, the garden becomes an extension of the home for cooking, eating etc, it makes for a nicer lifestyle. My brother has moved up to Manchester to live with his mrs recently, and the one thing he says he misses above all else, is not being outdoors much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
E-bmw Posted October 16, 2014 Report Share Posted October 16, 2014 But then the upwards slope to the west of the country on the side of the prevailing weather will always be wetter than either coastal south of this, or east of this. That is how the weather works, I live in East Yorkshire & the predominantly coastal low-land area also has it's own well known micro-climate which is influenced by the amount of water & the shelterewd nature. The future Mrs E lives near Leeds & constantly remarks how wet it is there compared to mine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tipex Posted October 16, 2014 Report Share Posted October 16, 2014 Eastbourne is surrounded by hills to the North, East and West, to the south is the sea, the hills push any cloud inland and away from us, and the sun reflecting off the sea breaks up smaller clouds. If you sit on the beach and look towards Beachy Head, you can watch the clouds being pushed away from us, and breaking up as they come over the cliff edge and hit the sunshine bouncing off the sea, it's quite a sight sometimes, especially in the knowledge that most of the rest of the country is getting wet! 99% of the time it works in our favour, but there have been the occasional times that bad weather has come from the south, in which case it can get trapped and stall over us, this is what happened in 1987 and why we suffered so badly compared to the rest of the country, and we used to get some epic thunder storms stall over us, although that hasn't happened for a good 10 years now sadly, as I like a good storm! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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