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Selling your home

Once you have instructed us to act for you, we can send you a copy of our more detailed explanatory leaflet to describe the steps that are taken to sell your property.

We will need to find out a lot of information about your property so we will send you some forms, known as the Sellers Property Information Form and Fixtures and Fittings List, to fill in and return to us. If you are selling a Leasehold Property (such as a flat or maisonette) we will also need details of any ground rent or service charge paid by you and details of the landlord or managing agent.

You will probably have a mortgage on the property so you will need to give us the name of your mortgage company and your mortgage account details as quickly as possible.

We can usually obtain a copy of your deeds from the internet and prepare a contract.

We can prepare all of the above even before you have secured a Buyer for your property. By doing this the legal process should be faster once you have a Buyer.

We will send a contract, copies of your deeds and the Property Information Forms you complete to your buyer's solicitors. We will deal with any additional queries that they may have. We will try to do this without troubling you if we can, but we may need to refer some enquiries to you, or possibly to others such as the Local Authority, or your managing agents or landlords if you are selling a flat.

Once we have dealt with your buyer's questions, and your buyer is happy to proceed, we will send you the contract to sign and return to us.

When all the people in your “chain” have signed and returned their contracts to their Solicitors and agreed a moving date (which we call the completion date), we can exchange contracts.

We will only exchange Contracts when you tell us that you are happy to proceed and agree the completion date.

When contracts are exchanged, the Buyer is legally bound to buy the Property and you are bound to move out on or before the completion date.

On the Completion Date we will receive the purchase monies from your Buyer’s solicitors, pay off any mortgage you may have on the property, pay the Estate Agents who sold your home, deduct our legal fees and then use the balance either towards the purchase of your new home, or if you are not buying a new home, we will transfer the balance to your account, which can be done by telegraphic transfer.

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