Get the benefits of selling through an agency without the high cost.

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Curbsy — Guides

5 min readOct 25, 2021

A recently sold beautiful solitary maisonette in Luqa.

You want the very best experience when you decide to make the important decision to sell your home. Part of that involves finding the right real estate agency that understands your needs and can provide flexible and affordable services. Recently, we’ve been working on our pricing options, adding in an exciting new subscription option which we want to tell you about.

Let’s take a closer look at what you can expect.

1. Our NEW Subscription Model

Choosing this option means you can tailor the experience to best suit you. You’ll receive all the benefits of working with a professional agency whilst having the flexibility to guide the process yourself with no hassle.

🧡 Low Monthly Fee

Available for just €9.99 a month with absolutely no commission, we want this option to be accessible for everyone with no high costs along the way.

🧡 Owner-Led Viewings

There’s no one that knows your home better than you and we understand that perhaps you want to take a more active role in viewings. We’re confident that you’ll have plenty of anecdotes and special memories to talk about that agents just wouldn’t be able to provide.

🧡 Freedom to Negotiate Your Own Offers

Deciding what’s right for you is what it’s all about. You know what your home is worth and what you need going forward.

🧡 Wider Marketing Reach

We market all of our homes across all the major social media channels including Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn. We also advertise on portals such as Zoopla, A Place in the Sun and Property Market, ensuring your property reaches more potential buyers than most other agencies. Your home gets the same special care and attention that customers choosing our commission model get.

🧡 Professional Photography

Our best photos get published more widely, through custom ads, both locally and internationally. We also offer exterior shots for our subscription customers to showcase both the interior design and the structure of your home to the best of its ability.

🧡 Video Tours

The modern buyer needs more than a few photos and a floorplan and, from €40, we can provide buyers with an immersive experience of your home before you’ve even opened the front door. Our Curbsy photographer will capture a video walkthrough of your property for YouTube, Facebook and our website. Check out a great example below with one of our higher budget homes:

You can find a full list of features and photographs for this villa here.

2. The Traditional Model

Sometimes, traditional is best, and this option may be right for you if you prefer a more estate-agent led experience with us conducting your viewings and negotiating offers on your behalf.

With this model, a 3% commission is taken on the sale of your home and the package includes everything above apart from the owner-led viewings and the exterior photos of your property.

We can also provide staging for photography from €70 in both cases, where a small team will come in to tidy and arrange the areas to be photographed to capture the area most effectively.

This handy graphic shows you the differences between our two models at a glance but you can see more if you go to our sell page.

Why Choose Us?

We have three core company values at Curbsy — love, curiosity and transparency. Every single member of our team embodies these values and our motto is that we’re matchmakers, not salesmen. We have a genuine passion for what we do and we work with homes rather than properties, people rather than numbers.

But what is it that sets us apart from other estate agencies and why should you choose to sell your home with us?

🧡 Honest Photography

One of the most frequent comments that we receive in feedback about our listings is just how beautiful our photographs are. We work with only talented photographers who share our belief that a home should be photographed honestly and beautifully. Or something like that. We never use any wide-angle lenses or trick shots, just your home looking its beautiful best. All the photos you see in this article belong to real listings, including the one below with our recently reduced Naxxar townhouse — check it out in full here.

The pretty backyard of our Naxxar townhouse with the home cinema.

🧡 We Value Your Time

We know that life is busy and time is precious, so we endeavour to speak with all potential buyers before we send them your way to ensure they’re genuinely interested and able to buy. For you, this means higher quality viewings and no time wasters.

🧡 Storytelling

Every home has an individual story to tell and we believe that begins with you and continues into the lives of the new owners. When a family buys a home, they buy it because they see themselves in that story. We work to capture this through language and design.

Each home’s personalised page is built to reflect the home’s unique beauty and heritage. Perhaps none more so than our absolutely breathtaking grand palazzo in Valletta with such an interesting (and scandalous) history. So much so, that we thought it deserved its own article. Click through to the listing itself here.

The stunning courtyard of the Palazzo Valdina with its wide arches and impressive balcony.

🧡 Digital Audiences

Social networks have transformed marketing and, according to Smart Insights, a staggering 4.66 billion people now use the internet with more than half the world utilising social media. So it makes sense that we take your home to where the buyers are. Our gifted in-house data analyst, Stacy, is crunching the numbers every day to make sure that your property gets in front of the right people at the right time.