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CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD OUR GUIDE TO SELLING
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The following is a step by step guide to the process of selling your property.
Step 1 - Book a Valuation
Our local knowledge is unrivalled. We will visit you at your property and provide you with details of similar properties sold in your area as well as other properties currently on the market. We can even provide you with information on who is currently on our database looking for a property like yours. We will explain the sale process and discuss the various options for marketing your property. If you agree to instruct us to sell your property, we will then agree on a price to market your property and book a time for our professional photographer to visit you.
To request a free valuation of your property you can either call our Sales Manager on on 020 7473 9531 or complete an online valuation
If you have already decided to instruct Movello to market your property please confirm this on the valuation form. This way we can combine the valuation and photography visit to you property and get you on the market even quicker.
Step 2 - Photography and floorplans
Once confirmation of your instruction has been received, our in-house Photographer will process your property. From just one visit, they will be able to take the time and effort to present your property in the best possible light and place it in the appropriate media quickly, professionally and efficiently.
Movello will produce floorplans, 360° tours (for properties over £300k), colour photographs, location maps and a printable colour brochure for every property.
Step 3 - Home Information Packs (HIPs)
It is now compulsory to order a HIP before marketing your property for sale. Movello can organise this for you, we work with OpenBook who are one of the leading providers of HIPs.
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A solicitor will be required to handle the legal paperwork involved in transferring ownership of your property to the new buyer (conveyance). It is advisable to instruct your solicitor at the same time as putting your property on the market, to allow for collection of the necessary documentation.
We can recommend a company called OneMove who can handle all the necessary legal work and will provide you with a Personal Moving Consultant (PMC) who will keep you informed of progress via a Blackberry which we will lend you for the duration of the sale process. The PMC can also provide advise on other services relating to your move.
Step 4 - Marketing
When you instruct Movello to sell your property you automatically benefit from our unrivalled, comprehensive package of marketing services. These are designed to achieve maximum exposure for your property in order to obtain the best price quickly and efficiently.
We are dedicated to presenting every single property at its very best, regardless of price. We use a wide range of print media including Movello Magazine which is distributed to 30,000 local addresses, Canary Wharf magazine, Royal Docks Review, Property Guide, The Docklands and The Wharf newspapers. We also upload our properties to the all the leading property portals including Prime Location, Rightmove, Findaproperty, propertyfinder, Hot Property and Look4aproperty.
Step 5 - Viewings
When selling your home the key task for your estate agent is to tell as many people about your property, as quickly as possible.
As well as our sustained advertising and comprehensive website, Movello has invested heavily in providing our database of buyers immediate SMS and email alerts about new properties that suit their chosen criteria, as soon as they are listed and processed by our Photographers.
As soon as you put your property on the market with us, our full integrated IT system seeks out suitable buyers and provides them with details about your property. As a result your property receives vast numbers of interested buyers usually within 48 hours of being listed.
We are open at times to suit our clients, convenient for viewing after work and at weekends.
Our telephone lines are open 24/7.
Viewings can be conducted by appointment between 9am - 8pm Monday to Friday and 9am - 5pm on Saturdays. If you are living in the property we will contact you to arrange a suitable time. If the property is vacant we can either collect keys from the concierge if your property is in a managed development or we can hold keys for the property. You will be able to login to the members area of our website to view the feedback from your viewings and the number of people that are viewing your property online.
Step 6 - Receiving offers
As soon as an offer is received we will notify you both verbally and in writing. You will also be able to see the history of offers on your property in the members area of our website.
Step 7 - Agreeing to sell
Once a price has been agreed by you it is important that the following details are agreed:
Date for exchange of contracts
Date for completion
Details of any extras included or excluded from the purchase
We will advise you and negotiate on your behalf throughout this process, keeping you informed every step of the way.
Step 8 - Drafting contract and supporting paperwork
Once the transaction is agreed, your solicitor will send out a draft contract to the purchaser's solicitor who in turn carries out preliminary enquiries and orders a Land Registry search. They will also organise all the supporting paperwork (where applicable) ie: title deeds, copy of Lease, fixtures and fittings list, seller's questionnaire, planning consent, guarantees, copy of building regulations and share of freehold certificate
Service charge accounts & building insurance (in general this is not applicable to freehold properties)
We recommend that you forward copies of your service charge accounts over the last three years, estimates for the forthcoming year, and building insurance certificates, to your solicitor the moment you instruct us to market your property.
Alternatively, in the case of apartment blocks, you can ask your solicitor to collect these documents from the Managing Agent.
Step 9 - Contract approval
This occurs when all preliminary enquiries from the draft contract and local search queries have been settled.
Step 10 - Exchange of contracts
Most buyers require mortgages. Once the mortgage offer has been confirmed, the purchaser is ready to exchange contracts with the seller. The contract is signed by buyer and seller and the deposit, (usually 10% of the purchase price), is either telegraphically transferred or paid in the form of a bankers draft by the buyer's solicitor. The completion date is set at this stage.
Step 11 - Completion
This is generally set a few days to a few weeks after exchange of contracts, depending on the personal requirements of the buyer and seller. The residual monies (usually 90%) are transferred from the buyer's solicitor to your solicitor's account.
Step 12 - Moving
We can also help you move by advising on removal companies and address change agents.
NO SALE NO FEE
Don't forget that until the time that you exchange contracts on the sale of your property, you will incur no estate agency fees.
We hope that the sales process is as smooth as possible and we always want to hear from you regarding ways in which we could improve the service we provide to our clients.
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