Selling your home can be stressful so it is important to choose an agent you can trust who will make this process as smooth as possible. Frost & Partners aim to eliminate the stress and support you through the experience of selling.

What to Do Next

Buying or selling a home? Do you require a valuation? Contact Frost & Partners for advice or fill in the valuation form.
In the meantime, here are a few guidelines which we hope will assist:

Valuation

Firstly, if you are selling, you will require a valuation. At Frost & Partners, we can offer you a free, no-obligation factual and accurate appraisal of the current market value of your home. Our experienced property valuers will provide you with a valuation based not only on their in-depth knowledge of Hadleigh and surrounding areas but also utilising our extensive database of recent properties sold.

Instruction of the Agent/Property Details

Having received your valuation, and provided that you are satisfied with it, we will then proceed to prepare full sales details of your property. Bearing in mind the importance of presentation, we will ensure that the details of your sales highlight the vitally important aspects of your property and ensure that your home is shown to its best possible advantage with the aid of full colour photographs.

Energy Performance Certificates & Floor Plan
If you're thinking of selling a property, then there's a high chance you will need an Energy Performance Certificate (EPC for short). If your property requires an EPC, this is the only minimum requirement for you to put your property onto the market and must be carried out within 28 days of launching to market. If you have purchased the property within the past 10 years, you may already have an EPC as they are valid for up to 10 years. However please note that the EPC may not consider any improvements you have made to your property's efficiency. 
A floorplan is an optional feature to have when marketing the property. Although we do highly recommend a floor plan is prepared to help potential buyers visualise the layout. To save you time and hassle finding a reliable person, Frost & Partners are more than happy to organise this for you via our recommended assessor. 

Marketing

Once you have seen and approved our particulars of your home, you will then be in a position to receive prospective buyers. Appointments to view your property are made by Frost & Partners and accompanied viewings can also be arranged to show prospective buyers around your home should you be unable to do so. Your property is now ready to market and we offer the following: 
 
For Sale Boards
This is the most simple and effective marketing tool, available 24 hours a day. 
 
Office and Window Display
External and internal photographs will be prominently displayed in our High Street Office in order to optimise exposure to the marketplace. 
 
Email
Wherever possible, 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 as soon as possible within 24 hours of receiving your instruction. 
 
Mail Shots
We will contact registered prospective buyers as soon as possible after receiving your instruction and your details will be forwarded to any new registered buyers immediately. 
 
Website
This is updated daily, and full details of your home are placed on our website within 24 hours of being placed on the market. Besides the exposure on our own site, Frost & Partners is also affiliated with the following national property websites which will feature your home: Rightmove, Zoopla & On The Market.
 
Updating on Your Sale
At Frost & Partners, we pride ourselves on our conscientious sales management. We aim to keep you regularly appraised of your sales process right through to completion and liaise with your purchaser, the legal representatives, surveyors and mortgage lenders in order to ensure that your sale is progressing as smoothly and as stress-free as possible. 
 
Offers
Any offers we receive are promptly verbally notified and then followed up in writing. Our competent sales team will negotiate between you and your prospective applicant in order to achieve the strongest buyer. We will inform you of the position of the buyers and liaise with you until an accepted offer has been agreed.

Should you require your sale to be completed by a certain date, this is when you should notify us and we will endeavour to satisfy your request wherever possible.

At this stage, you should also provide your list of Fixture and Fittings which will be negotiated separately between the solicitors and forms part of the final contract. 
 
Agreed Sale
At this point (if you have not already done so), you will need to instruct a solicitor and, should you require assistance, Frost & Partners will only be too pleased to recommend local firms. 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 of 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. Once the draft contracts have been approved, it can be signed by both parties. 
 
Exchange of Contacts
As long as the mortgage offer has been received and cleared funds placed with your buyer’s solicitor, a mutually convenient date can be agreed upon for the exchange of contracts.

Completion
The completion and your actual house move will generally take place between 7 to 28 days depending on the buyers, sellers and their respective solicitors.