Selling Guide
PROCESS OF SELLING YOUR HOME
Preparing your house for sale can be both exciting and stressful. It’s exciting because you get to see how your house looks when it’s at its best, but it’s also stressful because you have to hide everything you don’t want others to see.
To prepare your house for photography, you can check out our blog here. At Estates East, we understand that having the best marketing material is crucial when it comes to selling your property. That’s why we offer professional photography, video tours, agent tours, floor plans, and many other services.
Contact us to find out more.
At Estates East, we understand that you would like to know what the viewers thought about your property after the viewings have taken place. That’s why we make it our priority to provide you with feedback as soon as possible, either straight after the viewing or the next day.
Moreover, we want you to feel at ease when considering offers for your property. We ensure that all offers presented to our owners have been qualified and have undergone financial checks. We also have a financial advisor who qualifies all our offers to give you peace of mind.
Once we have received all the offers, we present you with the client’s positions. It is then your choice on who you would like to go with.
- Solicitors ID Checks
- Fixtures and fittings forms (what you're leaving at your property)
- Draft contracts (your solicitor's documentation they send you so that this can be sent to the purchaser's solicitors)
- Buyer mortgage valuation survey (this is where a surveyor from the bank comes around for an inspection to value the property)
- Buyer structural survey (another survey more in-depth, surveyors could typically be at the property between 1-3 hours)
- Solicitors enquires (the buyers' solicitors will ask you questions about your property based on the contract you sent them, your solicitor will be able to advise of replies too)
- Searches (for a buyer to purchase your property they will need to get property searches which consist of a water and drainage search, environmental search, and local authority searches)
- Enquires from searches (the buyer's solicitors will normally raise enquiries off the back of the searches, but don't worry your solicitor will be able to help with replies)
- Signing the contract for exchange (once all your enquires are done and everything looks like it is coming to get end it is time to sign your contract)
9. Completion
Now that you have completed the exchange process, it’s time to plan your move out and pack up everything. You need to book your removals and get everyone to help you box up your home so that you can move on to the next chapter of your life. We will handle the key handover to the new owners of your previous home, so all you have to do is make sure that you don’t leave anything behind.
There is a lot that goes into the sales process, so hopefully the above has summarised it briefly. If you have any further questions, please don’t hesitate to talk to us.
“Helpful, efficient and friendly! I’ve used Estates East services a few times now, as a landlord, and they always find me excellent tenants.”
Mitch
“Great estate agents! Very friendly and efficient. They made our moving-in process smooth and effortless. We had a few technical problems, but they were resolved immediately, and the team was always on hand to help.”
Rye
“Ciara, Becky and the team were fantastic and a pleasure to do business with. Their communication was great and Ciara was always ready to go the extra mile for me, checking the property over, taking photos when…
Jen Hale
“Outstanding service. Our sale was quick and seamless and Charlie & Ciara did a great job of managing viewings with us with two little ones. Despite the market, we got a great offer and we were so pleased with…
Jen Hale
“I would strongly recommend Estates East, from start to finish the team was amazing, so helpful, kind and totally professional. At each stage, the team kept us informed and this put us at ease as it’s so stressful…
Liz
“Fantastic experience with Estates East, so happy we sold with them. Very clear and approachable to us as sellers and the buyer by all accounts. Being the buyer with other estate agents I have seen how awful it can…
