Our Guide to Selling Your Property

Selling a home can feel like a big job, especially since most people only move every 15-20 years. It's important to get advice from the right people at the right time, which is where OC Homes come in. We like to share as much of our extensive knowledge as we can both before and during your sales journey with us, so by knowing what questions to ask, what your rights are, and what responsibilities you have, you can avoid any undue stress and work with us to speed up the sales process.

At OC Homes, as a professional and regulated estate agency, we always keep abreast of the all latest policies and procedures in regards to selling your property.

We hope you find the ‘HOW TO SELL’ guidelines useful. In addition please see below our simple step-by-step overview to selling your property with OC Homes – your award winning estate agents

Market Appraisal

If you are selling, you will require a market appraisal to establish an accurate valuation of your property

We will provide you with a no obligation valuation based not only on our in-depth local knowledge of the surrounding areas, but will also utilise our extensive database of properties that have recently sold.

Instructions & Property Details

Having received your market appraisal in writing and provided that you are satisfied with it, we will then proceed to prepare full sales particulars of your property.

Presentation is key so we will ensure that your sales details highlight the most important aspects of your property to ensure it is shown at its best, with the aid of professional photography, floorplans & 3D virtual tours.

The premium properties also benefit from the full Lights, Camera, Action service, whereby our videography team attend the property to create a showstopping video of your home with commentary from a property expert.

Marketing

Once you have seen and approved our particulars of your property, it will be placed on our website along with all the other property portals we use. We proactively market your property to our database of qualified buyers.

This includes cutting-edge digital marketing which is boosted by featured and premium property adverts on Rightmove, Zoopla, Prime Location and On The Market as standard, as well as coverage on all other major portals and on all the major Social Media Platforms.

Viewings

Appointments to view your property are made by prior arrangement with yourself by the OC Homes sales team and your dedicated OC Homes Property Consultant will manage all the viewings and accompany you at every viewing.

‘For Sale’ Board

This remains the most simple and effective marketing tool, which is as powerful today as it has always been.

Email and Phone Calls

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 within minutes of them going live on our system.

Our property consultants will also adopt a hands-on approach and phone all applicants we have on our extensive database, who are matched to your property.

Offers

Any offers we receive are promptly notified verbally to you and then followed up in writing. We will inform you of the position of the buyers and liaise with you until an offer has been accepted.

Agreed Sale

At this point, if you have not already done so, you will need to instruct your solicitor. OC Homes will be happy to recommend a solicitor if you do not have one in place.

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 out 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.

Updates on Your Sale

At OC Homes, we pride ourselves on our conscientious sales progression. We will keep you regularly updated through the sales process until completion and liaise with your purchaser, the legal representatives, surveyors and mortgage lenders in order to ensure that your sale progresses as smoothly and as stress-free as possible.

Exchange of Contracts

A date for completion is agreed and once exchange of contracts has occurred, both you and the buyer are legally bound to complete the sale/purchase.

Completion

The funds are received from the buyer’s solicitor and once your solicitor has confirmed that they are in receipt of these funds, completion takes place and you may instruct OC Homes, as your agents, to release the keys.

Congratulations!

You will have now sold your property through OC Homes.Don’t just take our word for it, come and see some of our amazing reviews and testimonials left by many of our satisfied clients over the last 15 years.