Before you sell your own home privately it is important to place a realistic property valuation on how much your house is worth in the current market conditions.

The only person qualified to provide you with a accurate property valuation which will be accepted by a UK bank to obtain a mortgage is a chartered surveyor

Estate agents are not qualified to provide you with an accurate property valuation which you can take to a bank in order to get a mortgage. They can only offer you an opinion on how much they believe your property is worth based on past property sales in the local area and historical data obtained from the UK government land registry office or other sources.

We have put together a quick guide to help you obtain a realistic property valuation before you choose to sell your house privately .

1. Visit a number of local estate agents to compare properties with similar features. This will help you understand the market in your local area plus the price similar properties in your local area are selling for.
2. Visit a number of the popular property web sites inclusing rightmove.com , privatelocation.com or propertyfinder.com and search for properties similar to yours in your local area. Again this will help you understand the market plus give you an idea of how much you should sell your house for.
3. Visit free property valuation web sites including Mouse price Zoopla plus the government land registry site to obtain some historical data about how much properties have sold for in the past in your local area.
4. Be aware of the current market conditions. If the economy is in a recession then the value of properties will fluctuate.