Step 1 Property Asking Price
Start by investigating the current price of properties for sale in your area and comparing them to your home. Checking prices in the local papers, Estate Agents windows and property web sites will also be helpful when looking for comparisons.
You may have already asked two or three local Estate Agents to give you a free valuation or we can assist you by providing a valuation if you’re not sure about the asking price.
Click here to request a valuation or call us on 08448 466 469.
Step 2 Home Information Packs (HIP’S)
We will take care of organising the government-required Home Information Pack (HIP) for you, this must be ordered before your property is placed on the market. As of 6th April 2009 a number of key changes to the Home Information Packs were introduced meaning a HIP (minus searches) must be in place before a property is marketed.
Step 3 Instruct a solicitor
It is advisable to instruct your solicitor at the same time as putting your home on the market. This will help avoid any delays involved in transferring ownership of your property to the new buyer.
We have a panel of chosen solicitors ready to begin work on your home.
Step 4 Ready to Market your home
When you instruct @home to sell your property, you will automatically benefit from our unrivalled, comprehensive marketing package.
Our team of specialists will, in just one visit, collect all marketing elements for your property including: interactive floorplans, 360° tours and colour photographs, alongside local information, location maps, aerial views and a printable colour brochure. All ready within days of our visit!
Once you have approved your details, your home will automatically be uploaded to all major property websites.
Step 5 Viewings
To maximise viewing opportunities, our phone lines are open 6 days a week, until 6pm Monday to Friday and 9am to 4pm Saturdays.
Step 6 Feedback
We appreciate how important feedback is when selling your home so our tailor-made website allows you to have 24 hour access to all information including; web details, brochures issued, viewings, viewing feedback, offers and sales progression.
Step 7 Receiving an offer
As soon as an offer is received we will notify you both verbally and in writing.
We will advise you and negotiate on your behalf throughout this process, keeping you informed every step of the way.
Step 8 Agreeing to sell
Once you have accepted an offer, we will write to all parties and provide the important information needed to progress your sale.
Step 9 Drafting contract and supporting paperwork
Once an offer has been agreed, your solicitor will send out a draft contract and the HIP for your property to the purchaser's solicitor who in turn carries out preliminary enquiries.
Your solicitor should collate all the supporting paperwork (where applicable) ie: title deeds, copy of lease, fixtures and fittings list, seller's questionnaire, planning consent, guarantees, copy of building regulations and share of freehold certificate (most of this information should already be contained in the HIP).
Step 10 Service charge accounts & building insurance
In general this is not applicable to freehold properties.
We recommend that you forward copies of your service charge accounts over the last three years, estimates for the forthcoming year and building insurance certificates to your solicitor the moment you instruct us to market your property. These also need to be added to your HIP.
Alternatively, in the case of apartment blocks, you can ask your solicitor to collect these documents from the Managing Agent.
Step 11 Exchange of contracts
Exchange of contracts occurs when all preliminary enquiries from the draft contract and local search queries have been agreed.
Most buyers require mortgages. Once the mortgage offer has been confirmed, the purchaser is ready to exchange contracts with the seller. The contract is signed by buyer and seller and the deposit (usually 10% of the purchase price) is either telegraphically transferred or paid in the form of a banker's draft by the buyer's solicitor. The completion date is set at this stage.
Step 12 Completion
This is generally set a few days to a few weeks after exchange of contracts, depending on the personal requirements of the buyer and seller.
The residual monies (usually 90%) are transferred from the buyer's solicitor to your solicitor's account.
Congratulations, you have just sold your property
