Valuation of house contents

secondrowgal

Hello all

I hope this is the correct forum, but please move it it isn't. My Dad died last year and my Mam would like to get the house cleared out. There is some really good quality (mahogany and the like) furniture, silverware (such as teapots), old photographs and memorabilia, and we really don't know what to do with it all. I've tried googling house valuations but it just brings me to estate agents, so perhaps I'm not even using the correct terminology

Any advice on where I could go to get a general valuation on the contents please? I am in the Munster area but fairly central to anywhere really.

Thanks a lot in advance!

coylemj

Check your local newspapers for auctions of house contents, give that auctioneer a call and maybe they'd send someone out to give you a quick appraisal of what's worth putting into an auction and what is effectively junk with no secondhand value.

If you'd like to give us a better idea of where the house is located, (the town will be sufficient), somebody here will probably be able to recommend someone local.

Del.Monte

More information than you could shake a stick at here.

https://collectireland.com/auctions-2/

secondrowgal

Thank you both, that's all very helpful. I'll try both those suggestions! I don't want to throw out something that someone else might really like. There really are some nice bits but since our house is so old, it doesn't really suit any of our own houses now, plus we all have our own bits and pieces built up of course.

No doubt more junk than not but we live in hope of that €2,000,000 "heap of junk" that's sitting there in front of our noses for the last 40 years, Not much chance though!

Diddley Squat

If you put a pictures up then we can tell you if its good, middle or junk

secondrowgal

secondrowgal wrote: »

Thank you both, that's all very helpful. I'll try both those suggestions! I don't want to throw out something that someone else might really like. There really are some nice bits but since our house is so old, it doesn't really suit any of our own houses now, plus we all have our own bits and pieces built up of course.

No doubt more junk than not but we live in hope of that €2,000,000 "heap of junk" that's sitting there in front of our noses for the last 40 years, Not much chance though!

You'd be surprised what sells. Local auctioneer could advise as well as arrange a full auction. If you feel overall that majority of items are best sold for what you can get for them, then very much the way to go.
Selling items individually like on Adverts.ie or Donedeal can take up a lot of time and energy dealing with tyre kickers.

Decide what the "nice bits" are, as you put it, and maybe take some extra time yourselves, selling those privately?

In my experience, a lot of house content sales are successful where sellers place realistic figures on their items and aren't looking for retail prices on every item.

For example, nearly every household in Ireland has Waterford Crystal (prized of course) but i've rarely seen realistic pricing on Irish websites for Waterford Crystal- you usually get the "It costs X in Brown Thomas" new" line in reply. What is priced realistically, is sold rapidly- the over-valued pieces are still there for sale a year later.