Private sale
Selling without going public first
Six weeks of preparation, a written view on value, and a release to the register before anything reaches a portal.
Acting for the buyer, including against us
Acquisition
A retained search across the six markets, with a standing instruction to tell you when the answer is no.
An acquisition instruction is the opposite side of the desk. We work for the buyer, we are paid by the buyer, and we do not take a fee from the seller on the same transaction.
In practice most of the work is elimination. A retained search usually looks at forty houses, visits nine and recommends two, and a good part of its value is the thirty-one that never took up a Saturday.
How it runs
Requirement
A long conversation and a short written brief. The brief is the thing we are held to.
Search
Our own register, other agents' stock, and the houses that are not on the market but might be.
Shortlist
A written note on each house including what is wrong with it. Viewings arranged in blocks to save journeys.
Offer and through to exchange
Negotiation, survey coordination and the weekly chase that decides whether a purchase completes on time.
The other three
Also on the desk
Lettings
Long tenancies, small book
Twelve-month minimum terms, photographic inventories and a managed service that does not subcontract the handover.
Valuation and advice
A number, with the evidence attached
A written valuation for sale, purchase, probate or planning, delivered in five working days with the comparables in the appendix.