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Five key steps to selling
your first home

Selling your home for the first time can be exciting, but also daunting. We find that the hardest aspect for first time sellers is often having to co-ordinate the sale of a first home while managing buying or moving to a new one. This is why we work closely with you to plan your sale meticulously, with a unique service that’s tailored to you and means you can move as quickly and efficiently as possible, allowing you to get on with your life.

In our experience there are five steps you can take which we know will sell your home for the best price, and as quickly as possible, ensuring the process of moving house is as smooth and hassle-free as possible.

Step 1: Preparing your home for sale
  • We will give you one point of contact with an agent that is the expert in the area where your property is selling
  • Your property will be marketed & sold by people who live & work in the areawhere your property is
  • We will get to know you & your reasons for moving and devise a strategy to help you get the right price in the right timescale
  • We will agree on a pricing strategy
  • We will take quality photographs of your property and take time to understand what your property means to you to help us better attract buyers
  • We will accompany all viewings in order to ensure your property gets the right offer in a timely manner
  • We will help you with purchasing another property where appropriate
  • We will list your home across the widest range of selling platforms available(including Rightmove, Zoopla, the local media and the Newton Fallowell network.
  • We will monitor the performance of your property across these platforms to ensure that the listings remain fresh & relevant
  • We will ensure that all calls regarding your property are tracked & we will follow-up on any enquiries that come out of hours
  • We will get honest buyer feedback
  • We will negotiate on your behalf if you wish
  • We will market your home to our group-wide database of buyers
  • We will give your home exposure on our national website
  • We will use our industry-leading marketing in order to find you the right buyer

Choosing the right agent to sell your home is critical in making your move as stress-free as possible. If it’s your first home sale, working with an agent who will help you plan your move, especially if you are buying another home, is essential. All of our agents live and work in the area in which your home is going to be sold, and know it well. This really is vital in bringing the right buyers, whether they know the area or not, to view your home.

Marketing your property is an important part of the process too. We will, of course, list your home on the main portals, but it’s more than that: it’s about knowing which photos to take to show off your home to best advantage,  and making sure the descriptions people read will maximise the number of people we convert to viewings. We also know what other local marketing techniques work to make sure we reach every potential buyer we can on your behalf.

Currently anyone can set up an agency. However, our representatives are qualified, and are members of NAEA, and we also belong to The Property Ombudsman. In the unlikely event that you are unhappy with us for any reason, you can make a complaint free of charge.

A large part of choosing the right agent consists of finding one that has sold homes similar to yours before. This means they will know how much buyers are willing and able to pay for your home – and have an instant list of people wishing to view. You will want to maximise the price you sell your home for, and we can do that if we price the property right from the start since this enables us to deliver enough interested potential buyers. Ideally we like to have two or more buyers who are keen to buy your home, since this helps to maximise the price paid.

Pricing a home isn’t easy though! It’s about knowing the local and national market, understanding how location, local amenities, school catchments, floor space, light, number and type of rooms available, outdoor space and the property’s condition can all affect the value.

Our agents are experts in understanding why some properties sell for more and some for less. They know pricing a property correctly from the start means more viewings. More viewings mean the likelihood of more offers, which is one of the reasons we sell our clients’ homes for 99.41% of the advertised property price.

Some agents just focus on advertising a property, let you arrange the viewings, and once you have an offer, feel their job is done. We believe that an expert local agent should carry out your viewings.

We then follow up with each buyer to find out their thoughts and help to progress viewings to offers.

Once offers have been agreed, we work tirelessly to ensure the sale and if required, your own purchase is progressed. This involves checking everyone’s finances are in place, working closely with legal companies to ensure they are ordering searches, finding guarantees and warranties, preparing contracts, and answering any buyer questions that crop up. It’s essential we do this on your behalf because otherwise issues relating to any of these aspects can lead to lengthy hold-ups in selling your home.

Getting to exchange and completion – the moment when you can pick up the keys and move into your new home – is, from our perspective, as important to selling your first home as it is to secure an offer.  We understand this and your expert agent will be by your side, every step of the way, to make sure this happens. This explains why 91.57% of our sales are sold to the original buyers.

Thinking of selling
your first home?

Whether you’re just exploring your options or ready to move forward, our local experts are here to help. We’ll guide you through the selling process and provide honest, practical advice tailored to your situation.

Contact your nearest office to arrange a chat

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