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 Cooper Estates aim to eliminate the stress and make the experience as easy as possible.

WHAT TO DO NEXT

Buying or selling a home? Do you require a valuation? Please contact Cooper Estates for advice or fill in the valuation form.

In the meantime, here are a few guidelines which we hope will assist:

VALUATION

Firstly, if you are selling, you will require a valuation. At Cooper Estates we can offer you a free, no obligation appraisal of the current market value of your home. We will provide you with a valuation based not only on our in depth knowledge of the local market, but also utilising our extensive database of recent properties sold.

INSTRUCTION OF THE AGENT/PROPERTY DETAILS

Having received your valuation, and provided that you are satisfied with it, we will then proceed to 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 professional photographs.

MARKETING

When 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 Cooper Estates and accompanied viewings can also be arranged to show prospective buyers around your home.

Your property is now ready to market and we offer the following:

FOR SALE BOARD - This is the most simple and effective marketing tool, available 24 hours a day.

OFFICE AND WINDOW DISPLAY – External and internal photographs will be prominently displayed in our premises in order to optimise exposure to the market place. Nobody is better placed to sell your property.

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  -  We will contact registered prospective buyers as soon as possible after receiving your instruction 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.

Besides the exposure on our own site, Cooper Estates is also affiliated with the following national property websites which will feature your home:

• Rightmove
• On the Market
 

UPDATING YOU ON YOUR SALE

At Cooper Estates, we pride ourselves on our conscientious sales management. We aim to keep you regularly appraised of your 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 notified. Our competent sales team will negotiate between you and your prospective applicant in order to achieve the strongest buyer.

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, 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, Cooper Estates will only be too pleased to recommend local firms who we work very closely with.

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 out 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.

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 and take between 7 to 28 days depending on the buyers, sellers and their respective solicitors.