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 CityWest.co.uk Estate Agents, 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 CityWest.co.uk Estate Agents 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 CityWest.co.uk Estate Agents we can offer you a free, no obligation factual and accurate appraisal of the current market value of your home. Our experienced property valuers will provide you with a valuation based not only on their in depth knowledge of Hounslow and surrounding areas, 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 including and energy performance certificate. 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 full colour photographs and, if required, we can also set up a computerised 360 degree/virtual tour to feature on our website.
Home Staging
"Home Staging" is the term now widely used to describe the action of preparing your home for sale by ensuring the presentation is the best it can be.
Home staging helps you to maximise the potential of your property to appeal to a wider market, and the aim is to create a positive impact on buyers as soon as they walk through your door for that all important first impression.
Selling a home is about marketing a “lifestyle” – even a few small changes to the layout, colour schemes and lighting in a home can make a property a magnet for buyers. Home staging is really about creating the right impression or alluding to a “lifestyle” and this can be achieved by working with the “flow” of a home, eliminating clutter, rearranging furniture or adding attractive accessories. It isn’t about making expensive changes.
The estate agency industry often stresses that the first impression is the key factor in selling your home. Typically, a potential buyer has made up their mind ten seconds after they step in the front door. They were already forming an opinion as they pulled up outside. That really doesn't leave too much room for not getting it right first time. Each viewing should lead to a potential offer. If it doesn't, it's another viewing wasted and another potential buyer lost. To achieve the greatest possible outcome a home should always be presented at its best from day one.
We, at the CityWest.co.uk Estate Agents, have realised the importance of property presentation and have endorsed this initiative by offering free home staging consultations for all our vendors. These are carried out by our own in-house Home Staging Consultant.
Marketing
Once 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 CityWest.co.uk Estate Agents and are strictly accompanied viewings to show prospective buyers around your home.
Your property is now ready to market and we offer the following:
For Sales 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, which is well located on Hounslow West Underground Station Parade, in order to optimise exposure to the market place.
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 (and telesales) - 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.
We also have an optional 360 degree/virtual our which can assist to further enhance your property.
Besides the exposure on our own site, CityWest.co.uk Estate Agents is also affiliated with the following national property websites which will feature your home:
Findaproperty.com
Primelocation.com
Findanewhome.com
Globrix.com
Advertising – We provide regular prominent advertisement of your property in the following publications Hounslow Chronicle to ensure that your home is fully marketed.
Updating on your Sale – At CityWest.co.uk Estate Agents, 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 verbally notified and then followed up in writing. 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 accepted 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.
At this stage, you should also provide your list of Fixture and Fittings which will be negotiated separately between the solicitors and forms part of the final contract.
Agreed Sale – At this point (if you have not already done so), you will need to instruct a solicitor and, should you require assistance, CityWest.co.uk Estate Agents will only be too pleased to recommend local firms.
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 of 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
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