How to sell your home cheaply WITHOUT using an estate agent you could save 12,000 like we did The Sun [Video]

James Bore and Nikki Kopelman are around £12,000 better off after ditching their estate agent and selling their three-bedroom bungalow themselves.

The couple decided they would rather arrange their own viewings at times that suited their work schedules which led James, 41, to think – what else would they need an estate agent for? 

“It didn’t really add that much [value] to have the marketing done by the agent compared to what we could do ourselves,” said James, owner of security and technology consultancy Bores who lives in Stanmore, London. 

“I’m not saying estate agents are worthless, but they weren’t in a place to add much value to us, they just gave us added hassle and took extra fees.”

The couple had been quoted between 1% and 2% commission from local agents to sell their £650,000 home.

James and 36-year-old Nikki, a translator, used a combination of marketing techniques to get their property noticed by the local …