RESIDENTIAL SALES - SELLING
Selling your home can be stressful so it is important to choose an agent you can trust who will make this process as smooth as possible. We at Liddicoat Sanderson Potter Estate Agents, aim to eliminate the stress and make the experience as easy as possible.
In the meantime, here are a few guidelines which we hope will assist:
VALUATION - Firstly if you are selling, you will require a marketing proposal, part of which includes the valuation. At Liddicoat Sanderson Potter we can offer you a free, no obligation factual and accurate appraisal of the current market value of your home. Our experienced property valuers will provide you with a valuation based not only on their in depth knowledge of St Austell and surrounding areas, but also utilising our extensive database of recent properties sold. We will also provide you with a marketing plan which we believe will best suit your property.
INSTRUCTION OF THE AGENT/PROPERTY DETAILS - Once instructed to commence marketing your property, we will then prepare full sales details of your property. Bearing in mind the importance of presentation, we will ensure that your sales details highlight the vitally important aspects of your property and ensure that your home is shown to its best possible advantage with the aid of full colour photographs and accurate floor plans showing the square footage of the property together with useful information.
MARKETING - Once you have approved our particulars of your home marketing commences and viewings should follow swiftly. Appointments to view your property are made by Liddicoat Sanderson and accompanied viewings can also be arranged for us to show prospective buyers around.
FOR SALES BOARD – Our distinctive 'Bar Code' For Sale boards are an effective marketing tool, available 24 hours a day.
OFFICE AND WINDOW DISPLAY – Digital Photographs will be displayed in our town centre premises in order to optimise exposure to the market place.
EMAIL – Wherever possible, all prospective buyers who register with us are asked to provide email addresses in order to ensure that they are notified of any new properties as soon as possible within 24 hours of receiving your instruction.
MAIL SHOTS/PHONE OUTS - We will contact existing registered prospective buyers as soon as possible after receiving your instruction and your details will be then be sent to new registered buyers.
WEBSITE – This is updated daily and full colour details of your home are usually placed on our website within 24 hours.
Besides the exposure on our own site, Liddicoat Sanderson also uses the following national property websites which will feature your home:
http://www.rightmove.co.uk/
http://www.primelocation.com/
http://www.findaproperty.com/
http://www.propertyfinder.co.uk/
http://www.naea.co.uk/
ADVERTISING - We will provide regular prominent advertisements of your property in the Cornish Guardian and St Austell Voice to ensure that your home is fully marketed to local buyers.
UPDATING ON YOUR SALE - At Liddicoat Sanderson Potter, we pride ourselves on our conscientious sales management. We aim to keep you regularly updated on the sales process right through to completion and liaise with your purchaser, the legal representatives, surveyors and mortgage lenders in order to ensure that your sale is progressed as smoothly and as stress-free as possible.
OFFERS – Any offers we receive are promptly verbally notified and then followed up in writing. Our competent sales team will negotiate between you and your prospective buyers in order that we may select the best applicant for your needs.
We will inform you of the position of the buyers and liaise with you until an accepted offer has been agreed. Should you require your sale to be completed by a certain date, this is when you should notify us and we will endeavour to satisfy your request wherever possible.
AGREED SALE – At this point (if you have not already done so), you will need to instruct a solicitor and, should you require assistance, Liddicoat Sanderson Potter will only be too pleased to recommend local firms as well as providing you with an instant quote from our own in house legal team.
The solicitors will then write to all parties and the buyers will instruct a surveyor to conduct a survey of your property (the “agreed sale” is subject to the contract and any survey) and the buyers’ mortgage offer (if required) will also be subject to the results of the survey.
The sellers’ solicitors will request the title deeds from the lender (if appropriate) or yourselves as the seller and the Fixtures and Fittings form must be completed at this stage.
The solicitors draw up the Draft Contract which sets of the Terms of the Sale and sends it to the buyers’ solicitor together with all relevant documents including the Home Information Pack. Any enquiries will then be raised, the Title Deeds and Lease (if applicable) will be checked and local searches carried out.
Once the draft contracts have been approved, it can be signed by both parties.
EXCHANGE OF CONTRACTS – As long as the mortgage offer has been received and cleared funds placed with your buyer’s solicitor, a mutually convenient date can be agreed upon for the exchange of contracts.
COMPLETION – The completion and your actual house move will usually take place a week after exchange of contracts, although it can be the same day or even months after, depending on the buyers, sellers and their respective solicitors.
