The Property Selling Process Explained
The areas of property selling that we cover include:
What Is The Property Selling Process?
We’ve got all the steps to selling your property covered at Tinsdills.
Firstly, you agree a price to sell your property either privately with a buyer or via an estate agent.
Then you need to call our Client Service Advisors to get an estimate of charges from a Solicitor. When you’ve chosen a Solicitor, notify the Seller or estate agents of the Solicitor acting on your behalf and let them know you wish to go ahead. The estate agent will then send a Memorandum of Sale to the Solicitors involved. If you instruct us, at this point we will open you a file and proceed as follows:
At this point, we will send you a Client Care Pack. This will need signing and returning with all the relevant documentation / identification documents requested. Any delays here will have a knock-on effect with us commencing the legal procedure.
Once we have all the relevant information we will prepare a Contract. If the property is leasehold we will need to liaise with the freeholder and any management company involved about any requirements and fees they will charge – this can cause a delay.
We will send the Contract to the Buyer’s Solicitors. This will include the agreed terms of the sale, copies of the deeds, property information form and fixtures and fittings completed by you.
Further Steps To Selling Property
The buyer’s solicitors will then consider the papers and take their client’s instructions on any enquiries that need to be raised. They may order their searches at that stage.
The buyer’s solicitors will also receive the buyer’s mortgage offer following the survey on your property. They will consider their search results and may raise further enquiries at that stage.
The buyer’s solicitors then reports to the buyer and asks them to make an appointment to sign the contract papers and provide the deposit.
The buyer’s solicitors contact us to say that they are ready to proceed and suggest a completion date.
We will contact you to discuss the completion date and also arrange for you to sign the Contract.
Contracts will be exchanged fixing a completion date. We will request the deposit from the buyer’s Solicitor.
We will prepare your financial completion statement which will include our costs, estate agents fee and any mortgage redemption figure to be discharged.
On, or just prior to completion, take your final meter readings and then leave your keys with the estate agent. They will not release them until they are informed that legal completion has taken place and funds have arrived with us. You can arrange to hand over the keys directly if you prefer, but always wait to be informed that the funds have arrived with us.
We will arrange payment of your estate agents fee and redeem the mortgage on the property. Any funds due to you will be paid on the day either by cheque or bank transfer, or if you have a related Purchase, funds will be transferred to that file.
What Our Clients Say
Here you will find a selection of words from some of our many happy clients.
“Our solicitor has been fantastic from start to finish. This is the 3rd time we have used you for the sale/purchase of properties, and you haven’t let us down yet. Always straight forward and delivers what they say they will.”
Meet Our Expert Property Buying & Selling Team
Andrew Burrows
Kelly Myatt
Michelle Hansell
Contact Us To Discuss Selling Your Property
Are you selling your property? Or perhaps you are just looking for some advice on the property selling process?
Feel free to get in touch with our expert Property team today, using one of the branch numbers provided.
Contact us or today or visit a local branch
Hanley: 01782 956123
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The Most Popular Questions For Selling Property
Your solicitor will prepare copies of the title and a contract and
forward these to your buyer’s solicitor together with forms which
they will ask you to complete, for example a list of fixtures and
fittings that are staying at the property/you are taking with you.
An exchange of contracts creates a legally binding agreement
upon you to sell and the buyer to buy. The risk of the property
also passes to the buyer upon completion, although that is not to
say you should cancel any existing insurance polices on the
property. All polices must remain in place until completion.
No. The buyer generally instructs a surveyor to carry out a
survey.
