Valuation

To request a free valuation of your property you can either:

• Call us
• Visit one of our offices
• Make a valuation request

Processing The Property

Once confirmation of your instruction has been received, one of our in-house Protographers will process your property. From just one visit, they will be able to take the time and effort to present your property in the best possible light and place it in the appropriate media quickly, professionally and efficiently.

Orchardsuk.com is the only website where you will find floorplans, 360° tours, colour photographs, location maps, aerial views and a printable colour brochure for nearly every property.

Legal

A solicitor will be required to handle the legal paperwork involved in transferring ownership of your property to the new buyer (conveyance). It is advisable to instruct your solicitor at the same time as putting your property on the market, to allow for collection of the necessary documentation.

On The Market

When you instruct Orchards to sell your property you automatically benefit from our unrivalled, comprehensive package of marketing services. These are designed to achieve maximum exposure for your property in order to obtain the best price quickly and efficiently.

Viewings

Viewings can be conducted by appointment between 9am - 8pm Monday to Friday and 9am - 5pm on Saturdays.

Appointments can be booked 8am - 8pm, 7 days a week.

Receiving An Offer

As soon as an offer is received we will notify you both verbally and in writing.

Agreeing To Sell

Once a price has been agreed by you it is important that the following details are agreed:

• Date for exchange of contracts
• Date for completion
• Details of any extras included or excluded from the purchase

We will advise you and negotiate on your behalf throughout this process, keeping you informed every step of the way.

Draft Contract And Supporting Paperwork

Once the transaction is agreed, your solicitor will send out a draft contract to the purchaser's solicitor who in turn carries out preliminary enquiries and orders a Land Registry search. They will also organise all the supporting paperwork (where applicable) ie: title deeds, copy of Lease, fixtures and fittings list, seller's questionnaire, planning consent, guarantees, copy of building regulations and share of freehold certificate

Service Charge Accounts

Service charge accounts & building insurance (in general this is not applicable to freehold properties).We recommend that you forward copies of your service charge accounts over the last three years, estimates for the forthcoming year, and building insurance certificates, to your solicitor the moment you instruct us to market your property.

Alternatively, in the case of apartment blocks, you can ask your solicitor to collect these documents from the Managing Agent

Contract Approval

This occurs when all preliminary enquiries from the draft contract and local search queries have been settled.

Exchange Contract

Most buyers require mortgages. Once the mortgage offer has been confirmed, the purchaser is ready to exchange contracts with the seller. The contract is signed by buyer and seller and the deposit, (usually 10% of the purchase price), is either telegraphically transferred or paid in the form of a bankers draft by the buyer's solicitor. The completion date is set at this stage.

Complete

This is generally set a few days to a few weeks after exchange of contracts, depending on the personal requirements of the buyer and seller. The residual monies (usually 90%) are transferred from the buyer's solicitor to your solicitor's account