Step By Step Guide To Selling

Contact us to arrange a suitable time to visit your home. We have experienced valuers with expertise and extensive knowledge of the local areas to provide an accurate valuation. We will give you a realistic and achievable valuation. We will also discuss marketing strategy and what preparations or works you may need to maximise your sale price.

When you have decided to use us to sell your house, we will both have to sign our agreement (because the boring legal stuff must be done sadly!). Then we will visit the property again to take professional photographs and understand more about your property so we can emphasise every feature to potential buyers. Our packages as standard come with floorplans, drone footage and video tours. We will then produce a professional property brochure for your approval.

Instructing a solicitor, who has conveyancing experience, from the outset, is the best way to put your house in the best position. Waiting until you have accepted an offer can delay the process unnecessarily.

Make sure you have all your paperwork in order as this can really speed things up. So, if your property is leasehold, make sure you have the papers ready to pass on to your solicitor. Likewise, obtain any planning or building consents well in advance – these can help clinch a sale.

By law, you will need to commission an EPC (energy performance certificate) for your property. You won’t be able to market the property without one, so get it sorted as soon as possible.

We have great local solicitors and energy assessors on hand to help you out with both things, so let us know, and we can organise this for you.

We then advertise your property on Rightmove, Boomin, our Belvoir website and conduct a social media marketing campaign on Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn.

We also match your property with buyers on our database.

We actively email and call anyone we know who may be interested.

Now it’s time for prospective buyers to view your home.

It is usually best to let us show the viewers around whilst you go out – they will feel more comfortable if you’re not there. This means they can have an open discussion with us about your house without fear of causing offence. They’ll also be able to take their time imagining how your home could become their home.

We know it’s difficult, as we are all busy, but try and work around viewings. It really helps if potential buyers can view your home at a time that suits them. If not, there’s the risk they’ll see another property and forget yours.

If you have tenants in the property, give them plenty of notice about your plans and keep things friendly. That way, they’re more likely to keep the place looking tidy and accommodate viewings.

We will ring you soon after each viewing to give you some viewing feedback. We promise to communicate with you to keep you informed throughout this process.

Someone wants to buy your home – congratulations!

One of the most important jobs as your estate agent is to fully qualify any potential buyers, their financial position and ensure they can proceed.

Once this has been done, our team work hard to negotiate for you and ensure the best possible price is secured for your property.

We do not pressure you to accept a low price, we simply provide advice on market conditions, position, and price.

On average, Belvoir has negotiated buyers upwards of £5000 from initial offer to offer accepted.

Once your house is “sold subject to contract”, this is where agents will leave it to the solicitors – this is not what we do!

Approximately 30% of sales fall through before completion, due to survey problems, mortgage problems, legal problems etc.

Here at Belvoir West Bridgford we have a proactive full-time sales progressors whose job it is to ensure the sale is going smoothly, communicate with all parties, chasing the solicitors at every opportunity and deal with any issues as and when they occur.

It’s now time to move. On moving day, we will wait for the go-ahead from your solicitor before releasing the keys to your buyer. We are also here to help you with your move if you need contacts such as cleaners, packing and removals people and any other tradesmen.