Selling Your Home

Firstly, if you are selling, you will require a valuation. At Arthur Samuel estate agents we can offer you a free, no obligation factual and accurate appraisal of the current market value for your home. Our experienced property valuers will provide you with a valuation based not only on their in-depth knowledge of your area, but also by utilising major property portals for recent properties sold with factual evidence.

Having received your valuation, and provided that you are satisfied, we will then proceed to prepare bespoke marketing materials highlighting all relevant details for your property. Bearing in mind the importance of presentation, we will ensure that your sales details specifically target your chosen audience, 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, floor plan and detailed brochures.

Once you have seen and approved our particulars of your home, you will then be in a position to receive prospective buyers.

Appointments to view your property are made by Arthur Samuel and accompanied viewings will be arranged to show prospective buyers around your home unless you show a desire to conduct the viewing yourselves.

Your property is now ready to be showcased on the property market.

As part of our commitment to providing a coherent and effective service, we will work with you to devise a bespoke marketing campaign that is designed to raise the profile of your property in an appropriate and targeted manner.

Methods include the following:

• FOR SALES BOARD - This is the most simple and effective marketing tool, available 24 hours a day.
• 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.  We aim to therefore update any relevant buyers within 24 hours of receiving your instruction.
• DIRECT MARKETING - We will contact registered prospective buyers as soon as possible after receiving your instructions and your details will be forwarded to any new registered buyers immediately.
• WEBSITE - This is updated daily and full colour details of your home are placed on our website within 24 hours of being placed on the market. In addition to the exposure generated from our own site, Arthur Samuel will also advertise your home through the following national property websites:

Other property web portals are used.

Any offers received are promptly verbally notified and then followed up in writing via email or post.

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 acceptable offer has been agreed.

Should you require your sale to be completed by a certain date, you should notify us at this stage and we will endeavour to satisfy your request wherever possible.

At Arthur Samuel, we pride ourselves on our conscientious sales management.

We aim to keep you regularly up to date on the sales process right through to completion and liaise with your purchaser, the legal representatives, surveyors and mortgage lenders in order to ensure your sale progresses as smoothly and as stress-free as possible.

If you have not already done so, you will now need to instruct a solicitor.

Should you require assistance, Arthur Samuel will happily recommend local firms.

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.

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.

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.

The completion and your actual house move can take place between one day and several months after exchange of contracts, depending on the buyers, sellers and their respective solicitors.