The Legal Formalities
These days selling your home if covered by numerous pieces of legislation including the Estate Agents Act 1979, the Property Misdescriptions Act 1996, Anti Money Laundering Regulations and the recent Home Information Pack Regulations. We have therefore, prepared this document to try to make life as easy as possible for our clients. Unfortunately, we cannot begin marketing a property until we have had all the required information:
Please download this document
Next Steps
What we will do as soon as we have received the information (in the download above) from you:
Our Marketing
Within 24hrs
1. Contact all our ‘Hot Buyers’ by telephone
2. Order your Home Infromation Pack
3. Email, Text and send by Royal mail the details of your property to all the remaining buyers
4. Publish your home on our website www.huntersnet.co.uk, www.rightmove.co.uk and the national Home Sale Network site www.home-sale.co.uk including photos, floor plans and virtual tour.
5. Display your property details in our relevant office(s)
6. Give you feedback after every viewing
Within 7 days
7. Advertise your property in our weekly local newspaper advertisement
8. Coordinate any other, additional advertising such as the Yorkshire Post, Yorkshire/Cheshire Life, City, Country, Continental etc.
Every 14 days
9. Call you to update you on our marketing progress
Of course, we would be delighted to hear from you at any time if you have any questions, concerns our queries! Occasionally we do make mistakes. If this is the case with your home please call us immediately and will do everything we can, as quickly as we can, to rectify the problem.
We totally understand that sometimes selling you home can be a stressful and difficult time, but please do not suffer in silence. If you need any information, advice or just some words of reassurance please just give us a call.
Presentation Tips
If you are looking to maximise the price of your home, presentation is crucial. Here are some useful tips on how to present your home more effectively.
• First impressions count! Most people have made up their minds within a few minutes of walking in the door.
• Pay attention to the outside, particularly doors and windows. Repaint or clean these if required.
• Ensure that the garden is neat, with newly mowed lawns, and weeded paths and borders. Put anything unsightly, such as wheelie bins etc out of the way and move cars off the driveway.
• Clean your home from top to bottom
• Don’t have clutter in your home. Get rid of anything non-essential. It’s distracting and it makes your home look smaller and less inviting.
• Replace worn or damaged carpets.
• Re-decorate in neutral colours where necessary to brighten your home. Yes, people will change the décor, but it is a big advantage if people can move in and not have to change anything immediately.
• Clean entrance doors, doorknobs, lights and fireplaces.
• Turn on all internal lights, particularly table lamps, and under unit lighting in the kitchen.
• Make sure the kitchen and bathroom are spotless. Kitchen work surfaces should be free of anything other than essential items.
• Lock up pets and try to get friends or neighbours to look after your kids. Again these can be distracting and are unlikely to help you sell your home.
• You don’t need to go to the lengths of baking bread or brewing coffee, but negative smells can be a disadvantage. If you do have pets, get a friend to give you an honest view on whether the area where your pet sleeps does need freshening up.
So that’s it in a nutshell! As we said before however, things do not always go according to plan, so if you need any information, at any time, please just pick up the phone or call in to your branch. If you don’t feel that you are getting the answers you need, please do not hesitate to call me.
Martin Robinson
Residential Sales Director
Hunters Property Group Ltd
Direct Dial: 01423 877079
Mobile: 07905 327744
Email: martin.robinson@huntersnet.co.uk
