Straight answers

Can I Just Sell My House Myself?

Glendale & Cheviot · July 2026 · 3-minute read

An estate agent answering this honestly? Yes: you can legally sell your own home, and some people do it well. Here's the full picture — including the part where we admit what you'd be paying us for.

The hammer is the easy bit.

THE MYTHTwo, actually: "you can't sell without an agent" (false) — and "selling yourself is easy, agents do nothing" (also false).

What a private seller genuinely can do: price by studying sold prices, take decent photos with care and daylight, describe the house honestly, and negotiate like the adult they are. What a private seller structurally cannot do: list on Rightmove, Zoopla or OnTheMarket — the major portals only accept listings from agents. And in 2026 that's not a detail; it's where nearly all the buyers are. Private-sale sites exist, but you're fishing a pond, not the sea.

The parts people underestimate

Filtering: separating buyers from browsers, and verifying that an offer is backed by funds.
Negotiating face-to-face on your own kitchen table, about your own money, with no buffer.
Sale progression — the chasing, the chains, the paperwork ambushes — for months.

THE TRUTHDIY selling is legal and occasionally brilliant, but portal access alone decides most outcomes — and only agents have it. The honest question isn't "agent or not", it's "what should the agent cost?" We think the answer is about £200, not a percentage.

That's really the whole pitch: everything a committed DIY seller would do, plus the portal reach they can't get, plus a logged system doing the chasing — for less than the cost of the solicitor's disbursements.

Sell the modern way.

Photography, floor plan and every major portal — all-inclusive from £200. Switching from another agent? First 200 switchers: £99 fixed.

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