Today, many real estate advertisements are published on LeBonCoin, this classified ads site is one of the references in the world of real estate sales sites, particularly for private-to-private sales. Essential for buying or selling, many real estate agencies publish their properties there.
However, not all transactions go through LBC, far from there, a large number of houses are sold without having been published on LeBonCoin : By word of mouth, via the real estate agents' customer portfolio, in off market, or via modes of alternative searches as Aydat.net…
Some sellers even refuse to put a classified ad online, not that he doesn't have the ability, but simply by choice. Here are four reasons not to sell your house in Aydat via LBC :
1. Opt for a sale with complete discretion/confidentiality
Advertising on LeBonCoin is also “make public” your sale, display it for all to see. You may not want this, selling price, Photographs of your interiors may be things you want to keep to yourself. You can of course not put a price on your ad., don't put a photo either and ask to be contacted for more details. You then risk receiving a large number of requests, potential buyers but also curious people… Who will ask you for the same information that you did not want to publish… So in the end this is not the solution for a confidential sale either.
You may also not want the neighborhood to know that you are selling., you have always been discreet, you want to stay there until your departure. Many curious people scan the ads to see what is going on around them., for some it is a matter of taking stock of the market with a view to a potential sale, for others it’s pure curiosity…
Not publishing an ad is also opt for discretion and above all security with regard to people with bad intentions, location identification (virtual or real during a visit) in view of a burglary for example…
2. Avoid emails from “curious” or visits to “Sunday walkers”
Posting in the right place means giving yourself wide visibility, but it also means receiving dozens and dozens of messages, some will pollute your mailbox (Bad setting of leboncoin messaging), others will require a response from you, a personalized response of course (even more time consuming), because everyone will need different details… A lot of time and work for usually few relevant contacts in the end.
A house for sale attracts a multitude of profiles, from the potential buyer to the simple little curious to those who like to visit houses on Sunday afternoon. If you didn't know yet, this visitor profile actually exists, they have no intention of buying your house, they are simply there to give a guided tour of the place. Difficult to sort in advance because even with a telephone exchange, some can be very persuasive when it comes to their intentions. They know as well as you that a house cannot be sold without a viewing.…
3. Do not be solicited by real estate agencies
We often see at the bottom of real estate advertisements the mentions : “Agency abstain” / “Real estate agents please refrain” / “Real estate professionals, please abstain”..
Simply because the site is obviously consulted by real estate agents, real estate professionals, real estate hunters, and if your property is not already in their agency, that you have not signed exclusivity mandate with a competing agency, they have every interest in contacting you. Despite this mention “Agent refrain”, you are not safe from being contacted by a professional, he will surely offer you his advice and support towards a sale, et if you are not too closed-minded, you will try the mandate by evoking a potential client from your portfolio. Remember that even if your goal is to sell, if you initially wanted to delegate this to an agency, you would have already done it, without having to go to the right place, all you had to do was contact the agencies directly to offer them your property.
4. Save yourself the hassle of creating an LBC account and writing an ad
Who says small ad says publication of ad and therefore writing it. But first of all if you don't already have one, you will need to create an account, it's not very long, neither very complicated but it is an essential step, without LBC account, no publication possible. Then you will have to write an overall presentation of your home in correct French., a detailed description of its characteristics. Every important detail that you forget to mention will bring you a slew of emails or calls for clarification. on this subject, whether it is a surface, a type of heating or sanitation, etc… You will also need “improviser” real estate photographer, take a photo shoot of your house, of its interiors, of its exteriors. You will realize that it may not be as easy as it seems. Brightness, framing, clarity, sharpness, real estate photography requires rigor and some knowledge. A bad series of photos can devalue your property in the eyes of the Internet user, encourage scrolling and not initiate a first contact (potentially followed by a first visit). Photos are the first things that will capture attention during a real estate search on LeBonCoin, they must be catchy, the textual description must be complete. In short, all this to tell you that creating an ad will take time so that it is complete and optimized. And that’s without counting the request management time, respond to all requests, questions, additional information/photos…
So some will say that it would be stupid to deprive yourself of the visibility that LBC can offer., that the more the house will be seen, the more likely it will be to sell. Others will tell you that’you only need one qualified contact to sell quickly and efficiently, potentially only one visit (rather than dozens in a row), in short, a single buyer to conclude the sale.