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Residential Sales
We will strive to make your move as stress free as possible. Smiths Residential will provide you with a free marketing appraisal of your property, provide current housing market advice, find and financially qualify buyers, instruct solicitors and monitor the transaction through to completion.
Although we are independent, due to our level of service and experience we have for some time been appointed as local agents for the Home-Sale Network which is the UK’s Estate Agency arm of the world’s largest relocation company Cartus.
If you are moving within the UK our network of over 600 Home-Sale Agents with offices covering most of the country can be called upon to assist you with choosing a location, and finding a suitable property to suit your requirements.
In the recent past, Smiths have successfully helped move employees of the Ministry of Defence, Home Office, Marks & Spencer and national Banks. On an international front we have given assistance to clients moving to Australia and both too and from the USA. If requested we can also help you with other Worldwide destinations.
It is our aim to make your move as stress free as possible.
Selling your Home
If you are selling we will provide you with a full marketing appraisal with our opinion of the value and a recommend asking price. We can also advise on how to present the property to show off its best aspects. Once instructions are received property details are prepared which will include photos, floor plans, location maps and a site plan. Marketing will include newspaper advertising, for sale board, office display and entry onto several property portals including Rightmove, Findaproperty, Primelocation and Propertylive.
Viewings can be by appointment or accompanied to suit your requirements, and you will be given feedback. All offers will be reported to you and once a purchaser is selected, a price agreed, identity and financial checks carried out, we will then proceed to instructing Solicitors.
What follows is often the tricky bit, we chase the purchaser’s finance and any surveys, keep an eye on chain activity above and below your property, and update you with progress reports . The transaction will then be monitored through to completion, where we hope you will be happy to pay our account (although we can’t do anything about the VAT!).
What you need to know about Viewings
Viewing Preparation
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Have a big tidy up in advance
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Ensure there’s plenty of light within the property, fully open curtains and turn on any lamps if necessary
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Increase your kerb appeal to prospective purchasers by smartening up paintwork to any gates, wiping front doors and windows, neatening front gardens and if you have a drive/garage move your car onto the road prior to a viewing
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Ensure children are informed in advance of visitors
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Also remember not everyone has a fondness for pets and their habits, therefore could be best to leave pets outside
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You know your house and surrounding neighbourhood best so be prepared for plenty of questions, these may include schools, transport links, central heating and extension questions, internet/satellite dish availability, what’s included in the sale and even time scales.
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Remember not to be too relaxed and inadvertently give away any negative insights into your time at the property.
Viewing Safety
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Prior to the appointment we will give you the names of the people viewing and their purchasing circumstances
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We will have their contact telephone numbers for security reasons as well as to be able to get feedback from the viewing
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If you are going to be in your home alone you may feel more comfortable asking a friend/relative to be there or to be available if necessary by phone, alternatively we can accompany the viewing with you
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Viewings should take no longer than twenty minutes
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Do not be drawn into giving too much information about yourself and personal situation
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If people are overstaying their welcome make an excuse to cut the appointment short and tell them to arrange with us to come back for a second viewing
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It is recommended you stay with them at all times
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Do not give your contact number, ask them to make further contact through us
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In the event of a potential purchaser just knocking on your door for a viewing without prior arrangement refuse entry and make an excuse, ask them to call us to arrange a formal appointment
You will be able to find further suggestions for keeping safe when selling your property, as well as other useful information, through the Suzy Lamplugh Trust (suzylamplugh.org)
Buying a Home
If you are buying, you will find full details of our properties on both this website and various property portals that we upload to.
Location, street and site plans will help you find the property whilst the floor plan, photos and description will help you with your choice of style. Our helpful and knowledgeable staff will assist you through the buying process. You will have to let us have sight of “proof of identity” and provide us with details of how you are financing the transaction and we can then formalise your offer with the vendor and instruct Solicitors.
Moving Checklist
Careful planning can help to minimise the stress of moving house.
Click here to view our moving checklist: www.smithsestateagents.co.uk/moving_checklist
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Moving home can sometimes be a stressful experience. In order to help make your move go as smoothly as possible Home Sale Network has compiled a range of information guides about moving services.
Smiths offer a comprehensive service to residential landlords and for many years have managed many properties from single houses to property portfolios and whole blocks of flats.
Smiths Chartered Surveyors are Regulated by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors with a vast experience of valuing a wide range of commercial / industrial property.