The £1,299 selling package: what's actually included

Ask most Northumberland sellers what an estate agent costs and they will guess a percentage — 1% here, 2% there, taken off the top when the sale completes. At Our Agents, the answer is simpler: £1,299. One fixed fee, agreed upfront, whether your property is a two-bed terrace in Ashington or a five-bedroom farmhouse near Rothbury. No commission, no percentage, no surprises at completion.

We get asked often enough what that £1,299 actually buys that it is worth spelling out properly — because a fixed fee only works as a promise if sellers can see exactly what is behind it.

Why a fixed fee, not a percentage?

A percentage fee means the agent earns more the higher your property is valued and priced — which sounds aligned with your interests, until you notice it says nothing about how quickly it sells, how well it is marketed, or how much attention it gets once it is live. Our £1,299 fee does not change whether your property sells for £180,000 or £480,000, and it does not change whether it takes three weeks or three months. Our incentive is the same as yours: sell it well, and sell it fast.

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What's actually included for £1,299

Nothing is held back as a paid extra. The fixed fee covers everything from first photograph to completion day:

• Professional photography — every property, no exceptions, shot to the same standard.
• Three high-impact marketing videos — used across the listing, social channels and our own marketing.
• Full property copywriting — a listing written to sell the property, not a template with the room sizes swapped in.
• Our Beat the Portals pre-market campaign — building buyer demand before the property ever appears on Rightmove and other major property portals.
• A managed open house event with pre-qualified, motivated buyers rather than a trickle of one-off viewings over several weeks.
• Offer management and negotiation — handled on your behalf, competing offers included.
• Complete sales progression — from accepted offer through to legal completion, chasing solicitors and buyers so the sale doesn't stall.

A fixed fee doesn't get bigger because your house is worth more. Our incentive is the same as yours — sell for the best price, as fast as possible.

The numbers behind the fee

The £1,299 package is not a discount version of a traditional service — it is built around a specific way of selling that has produced measurably faster, more competitive results for Northumberland sellers:

• Our sellers agree a sale in an average of 14 days, against a national average of around 77 days.
• Our listings receive 85% higher views than comparable properties on the portals.
• Two recent property launches generated 53 viewings and 10 offers between them.
• 95% of our properties sell at the open house event itself, rather than dragging on through months of scattered viewings.

That combination — strong pre-market demand, a concentrated open house, and disciplined follow-through — is what makes a flat £1,299 fee viable in the first place. A traditional agent charging 1.3% plus VAT is, in effect, being paid more the longer and more expensively the process runs. We would rather be paid the same either way, and simply do the job properly.

When do you pay, and what happens if it doesn't sell?

The £1,299 fee covers photography, video, the Beat the Portals campaign, the open house and sales progression from day one. If your property does not sell at the open house, we review pricing, marketing and buyer feedback immediately and agree a revised strategy at no additional cost. You are not locked into a long sole-agency contract while nothing happens.

Is £1,299 right for every property?

Yes — the package applies to every Northumberland property we sell, regardless of type or value, from first-time-buyer flats to rural character homes. The fee stays fixed; only the marketing plan is tailored to the property.

If you are weighing up a traditional percentage-fee agent against a fixed £1,299 fee, the honest advice is to work out what a 1.3% plus VAT commission would actually cost on your property — then ask what you are getting in return for the difference.