The Sales Process

Instruction of Solicitor

You need to instruct your solicitor as your property is now on the market, It's helpful to have your solicitor instructed as it gives time to make sure all relevant paperwork is in order for conveying your sale.

Documents prior to contracts

Once you initially contact your solicitor there will be a few documents that they will require completed, its important to complete and return at your earliest convenience as this will be very important, as your solicitor will need this to produce draft contracts to send to the purchaser's solicitor.

Contracts Exchange & Completion of sale

Plan ahead in terms of completion dates to work towards for exchange of contracts and completion. There are many factors, whether the buyer needs to be in the property by a certain date, maybe current tenants need to be served notice or the seller needs to move out of the property due to them possibly purchasing another property. Here are just some of the hurdles that can be met on completion so we would strongly advise to plan well ahead.

When the enquiries have all been ironed out by both solicitors, contracts will be issued to be signed by both vendor and purchaser. The purchaser's solicitor will then make arrangements for the transfer of deposit and funds to be drawn down from the mortgage provider, at times it takes a little longer for funds to be transferred so this will need to be taken into account. We would then always advise that the buyer visits the property before exchange of contracts to make sure everything is in order.