About us
Estate Agent of the Year Award winners FIVE years running!
Silver Award winners 2008 and 2009 -
Gold Award winners 2010 - Grand Prix Award winners 2010 -
Silver Award winners 2011 and 2012!
Serving :
St Albans, Welwyn Garden City. Harpenden, Hatfield and Hertfordshire Villages
Stockport, Cheadle, Wilmslow, Macclesfield, South Manchester
Bristol and surrounding villages of North Somerset and Gloucestershire
Bath, Frome, Trowbridge, Midsomer Norton, Radstock, Corsham, Melksham, Westbury, Bradford on Avon, Chippenham and surrounding areas
House-Hut Estate Agents offer a novel approach to house selling. We offer a full estate agency service but at less than half the usual price. We are proud to announce that for the fifth year running House-Hut has won Awards at the prestigious Estate Agent of the Year Awards. Presented by Phil Spencer of Channel Four’s Location, Location, Location the awards are given to the agents with the best scores for service to their customers. The awards are decided by our customers - and it is thanks to their votes that we have won awards for the past five years running demonstrating our commitment to provide you our customers with a consistent very high level of service. This proves you don’t need to pay a fortune to get the best estate agent! For more information click here.
Why pay more?
You could typically save yourself £3000**.
We cut the price, but not the service!
*Commission based on sole agency self viewing agreement (£300 up front fee). **Based on a £240 000 house with a sale commission of 1.75%.
But don’t take our word for it see what our sellers say about us or see the recent report by the Ombudsman for Estate Agents or see a sample of our many sold properties.
To book your FREE home appraisal call:
Bath Area Office 01373 473782 or 0845 602 5670
Bristol Area Office 0117 975 8636
Stockport and South Manchester 0161 428 1887
St Albans and Hertfordshire 01727 852248
House-Hut:- An estate agent with a difference
We offer all the usual services that you would expect from an estate agent, plus a lot more through our 10 point service commitment. We offer you your personal estate agent to guide you through the process of selling or buying your home. We believe in listening to our customers and our philosophy is to put our customers first. As members of the Ombudsman for Estate Agents Scheme you have the reassurance of knowing we abide by their strict codes of practice this also provides you with an independent point of redress. We are totally independent and do not have to meet head office targets aimed at pleasing shareholders. Once you have told us what you are looking for we will remember and not send you lots of irrelevant properties sorted by a faceless computer. We have a policy of honesty to both our sellers, and buyers, we’ll tell you how it really is! When we say we will ring you back we will! We will call you regularly to keep you informed of progress even if there is ‘no news’. We won’t try and sell you mortgages or insurance (although we are happy to put you in contact with people who can if required) - all we do is sell and let houses! We will accompany all viewings if required and follow the sale through to completion keeping you informed all the way.
See what a recent Ombudsman survey said about us
Our achievements have been underlined by a recent report by the Ombudsman for Estate Agents, where we achieved a very credible overall score of 9.3 out of 10, and 100% of respondents said they would recommend us. For full details of the report click here.
How do we do it?
Where we differ from traditional agents, is that we don’t have a high street shop and the savings we make we pass on to you. Our lowest fee is just £700+vat - any house - any price! Alternatively we charge from just 0.5% commission on a sole agency basis. See our price calculator. We don’t tie you into long term contracts, our view is if your unhappy with the service you are recieving from your agent you should be free to choose another! We can offer a variety of payment options from a no sale no fee commission so there are no upfront charges , with this option if we don’t sell your property you don’t pay us, through to our fixed fee option of just £700 payable upfront. The choice is up to you. Call us now for more details.
Our properties are marketed in the local property papers and also nationally via Rightmove - the UK’s most visited property web site, FindaProperty.com, PrimeLocation and Fish4homes. All our properties are viewable on our web site at www.house-hut.com. In addition we produce full colour brochures of all our properties including floor plans.
1. Free valuation & market advice
2. Full colour brochures with professional photography
3. Floor plans on ALL properties
4. All our properties are advertised on Rightmove and Zoopla
5. ‘For Sale Board’ for your property
6. We don’t tie you into long contracts
7. Personal and friendly service
8. Follow up all enquiries & provide feedback from viewings
9. Negotiate all offers to get you the best price
10. Follow up of sale from offer to completion
For an incredible fifth year running House-Hut Estate Agents has won awards at the prestigious Estate Agent & Letting Agent Awards supported by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS). In 2012 House-Hut again collected a regional Silver Award, having collected Silver in 2011. In 2010 House-Hut collected the regional Gold Award for the South West of England having won Silver in 2008 & 2009. They also went on to win the overall Gran Prix Silver Award for the UK 2010.
The annual estate agent awards are the largest awards in the industry and the only ones where our customers choose the winners. The event was held at the five star Marriott Hotel in Mayfair London which, was attended by 500 guests and is the highlight of the estate agents calendar. The awards were presented by top TV personality Phil Spencer of Channel 4’s Location, Location, Location.
On receiving the award the Managing Director of House-Hut said “what makes these awards so special is that they are voted for by our customers who have to fill in a detailed questionnaire about the service they have received. It is gratifying to receive recognition for all our hard work - people say being an estate agent is easy, but being a good agent is very hard work. To win five years running is such a major achievement and demonstrates our commitment to provide the highest quality service to our customers year after year. We would like to thank all our customers who have supported us over the past year and who are at the centre of everything we do”.
Phil Spencer who will present the Awards said: “This is the 9th year of the Estate Agent and Letting Agent Awards and I’ve increasingly enjoyed being part of the celebrations on each occasion. It’s fantastic to see agents getting the credit they deserve after all the negative press they receive. Throughout the property industry there is a constant need to improve customer service and these awards go along way to help agents focus on keeping clients happy. He adds “After all the most powerful marketing tool for Agents is word of mouth so customer satisfaction is key.”
- Phil Spencer presents the Award to House-Hut for the third year running
Tweedie Brown, Group Managing Director of PSG, the headline sponsor and one of the biggest HIPS providers in the UK adds: “On behalf of PSG I would like to congratulate House-Hut in its quest to help raise standards through its ability to deliver excellent service to both customers buying and selling homes.”
A company spokesman for House-Hut said “With the current very difficult conditions in the housing market it is more important than ever to choose the best estate agent you can find if you are going to be successful in selling your house. Using a good agent can make the difference between selling and failure.
The face of estate agency is changing and this award proves it is no longer necessary to pay exorbitant fees to get a first class service. We are now officially recognised as one of the very best estate agents in the UK for the past FIVE years and we also have one of the lowest fees in the UK! These awards are recognition of dedication our staff have put into making the pioneering vision of House-Hut a success. This award is important to us because it is our customers who have put their trust in House-Hut and voted to put us here. This award will enable us to expand our franchise operations so that more home owners will be able to benefit from our services and will no longer have to pay excessive fees to move house”.
Jeremy Leaf, Chairman of the RICS Residential Faculty says “being shortlisted or actually winning one of these prestigious awards, which are widely recognised throughout the industry, demonstrates publicly an agent’s commitment to delivering the highest standard of service.”
There are 13 Regional Categories - Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, Greater London, East of England, East Midlands, North East England, North West England, Southern, South East England, South West England, West Midlands, Yorkshire and the Humber. Gold & Silver Winners are awarded for each region and those winners will automatically be entered for the Grand Prix Award Best Estate Agent or Best Letting Agent in the UK. “We are delighted to support the Estate Agent and Letting Agent Awards again” says Jon Notley, Sales Director of FindaProperty.com . “We are always keen to promote the excellent work done by our many agents and clients and were particularly attracted by the format of these awards”.
To place your property with us call now on:
Bath Area office: 01373 473782 or 0845 602 5670(low call)
Bristol Area Office 0117 975 8636
St Albans and Hertfordshire 01727 852248
Stockport and South Manchester 0161 428 1887
or contact us!!! via this website
Concerned about Home Information Packs?
Home information packs have been scrapped by the government and are no longer required in order to sell your property. However all properties for sale are required to have an energy performance certificate. For more information visit our EPC page.