Sales

Decided you want to sell your property?

Selling your home usually begins by asking one (or more) local agents to visit and provide a market appraisal. Once you have come to the decision to sell your home, you’ll want to safeguard that the transaction is handled professionally, sensitively and with your best interests in mind With Blue Estate Agents, you are assured of honest advice and close personal attention, together with an expert opinion on local property values. Also opening hours – put simply, the longer your agent is available to discuss your property with potential buyers, the more likely they are to sell it for you. At Blue Estate Agents, our office hours are longer than any of our competitors, giving us a significant advantage when it comes to finding a buyer for you. From the valuation through to legal completion and beyond, we are here to assist you through the process. All potential buyers have access to your property details online including full room descriptions, measurements, photographs via all the major property portals.

Covid guidelines

Special guidelines have been prepared for both you and for our teams to enable appointments to take place whilst observing activities that contribute to minimising the risk of spreading COVID-19 such as handwashing, and social distancing. You will be sent these guidelines in advance of any valuation appointment.

Before marketing the property, our team will advise you to declutter so we can make the visuals more pleasing. Our approach will be designed specifically for your property and you. It may be a traditional launch and an open house. We will market your property on our Website, Rightmove, Zoopla and other property portals where a lot of our cliental will be searching.

We will go live on Digital Marketing – House movers always start their search online and therefore we take the digital approach first to marketing your home.

Property portals – Blue Estate Agents list and advertise on all the major property websites and portals.

Rightmove, Zoopla and Prime location receive around 22 million visits combined and we advertise on all 3.

Boards – We believe they are essential to bring attention to potential buyers.

Our Office – At Blue Estate Agents we have recently incorporated digital screens. With a constantly changing inventory, Digital Signage allows estate agents to easily update and display their real estate in an attention grabbing and engaging way. Paired with some eye-catching photography and high-bright window displays, the solution is hard to miss and therefore we will use this to intise potential buyers to see your property on the screens which allows them to come in and enquire about the property.

Blue Estate Agents will take professional photography to market the property.

We will complete a detailed floor plan which will enhance online viewers a more detailed image to your home.

EPC – you will need a valid Energy performance certificate. If you haven’t already obtained one Blue Estate Agents can arrange this for you.

Your property advertising – we create beautifully crafted sales brochures, upon your approval, so your property looks pristine and at its best.

Social media – making a mark in social media is essential nowadays. Promoting your property to our many social media followers is so important. And our sophisticated social media tool helps us target protentional clients.

Our agents will get cracking on what they do best - inspire buyers by showing them the true value of your property and inform potential buyers about the local area.

An experienced agent can make a huge difference to the price you achieve by negotiate effectively on your behalf with your buyer. In the same way, an inexperienced agent negotiating for you could cost you thousands. At Blue Estate Agents mentioners ae handled either personally by a director or under a director close and immediate supervision. We will bear leave your most valuable asset in the hands of junior staff.

If there is more than one interested party, your agent will keep you up to date with competing offers. You don’t have to choose the highest bidder, in fact, you should consider your aims and how this relates to the buyer’s situation. If you want to move quickly, a chain free first-time buyer or someone who has already sold their property may be the best option.

Accepting an offer

Once the final offer has been accepted, Blue Estate Agents will contact your solicitor who will then start their process on their side.

The buyer will also instruct their lender to value the property so they can finalise their mortgage offer, they may also commission a survey or homebuyer report at this point too.

The changing of contracts is carried out on your behalf by your solicitor or conveyancer.

It is when the sale of your home becomes legally binding and once the contracts have been exchanged you can be fairly certain that the sale of your house will go through.

The completion date will be stated in the contracts and this is when the property will be transferred to the new owners.

Completion day can be stressful for all concerned, especially if you’re part of a chain, but this is the final step in the sales process and one we all love. Blue Estate Agents we like to simplify the stages mentioned above so you have a stress-free sale.