Our Guide to the Selling Process

Are you looking to sell your property in Hemel Hempstead?

It’s important to find an estate agent you can trust, with the knowledge and experience to guide you through the process and help you achieve the best possible price.

Here's how we can help you to sell your property:

1. Kick-starting the property sales process

Once you register your interest to sell a property in Hemel Hempstead or one of the surrounding areas (by calling us on 01442 233533 or popping into our office at 67 Marlowes), we’ll assign you to one of our expert sales negotiators who will help you throughout your sale. They will arrange to visit your property to provide you with a market valuation, advise you on an asking price and then work to get the property officially onto the market.

2. Getting your property out there

Marketing is a key part of what we do – and trust us when we say we know what we’re doing! We provide high quality brochures with accurate floorplans and professional photography of all of our listed properties, as well as energy certificates to give buyers all they need to entice them to book a viewing.

We use all major property portals such as Zoopla, On The Market, PrimeLocation and Rightmove to get your property maximum exposure, but we also go a step further to actively contact any prospective buyers registered with us who we believe would be a good match for your property.

3. Showing buyers around

Now it’s time to secure your buyer! Of course, prospective buyers will want to see the property in the flesh, so make sure the space has been prepared with them in mind and it will sell itself. All of our viewings are 100% accompanied by our sales negotiators, so you don’t have to worry about strangers wandering idly through your property. If a property generates a large amount of attention, we may suggest hosting an open day to allow more people to view it in a short space of time.

You will receive ample notice of any viewings that have been arranged, and we’ll give you a call after the viewings to let you know of any feedback.

4. Accepting an offer

Congratulations, you received an offer! Now, the ball is in your court on whether or not you choose to accept the buyer’s offer and start the legal and financial property sale process, negotiate some of the terms the buyer put forward or decline it and wait for another offer. We will guide you through the positives and negatives of any offers, so you won’t have to make any big decisions on your own.

If you accept, you’ll need to find a solicitor to help you through the next stage of the selling process. We can recommend high-quality local options if you would like.

5. Guiding you through the legal & financial process

Over the next few weeks, there will be a number of tasks to get the sale legally and financially in place. The buyer’s lender will request entry to perform a survey of the property and your solicitor will be working on the conveyancing process to get all contracts and transactions in order before exchange.

This may sound daunting, but your Squire Estates sales negotiator will be on hand to guide you through everything. We will play a large role in communicating between all parties (you and your solicitor, the buyer and their solicitor & mortgage broker and any onward chain) to ensure the sale goes as smoothly as possible. We actually have an incredibly low sale fall-through rate of 5% – believe it or not, the industry average is 30%.

6. Completing your Hemel Hempstead property sale

When the legal and financial process is ready to go, your solicitors will arrange for the exchange, and set a completion date on which the property becomes the buyer’s. You will need to make arrangements to vacate the property on or before this date. If you are also buying as part of a chain, the date will be carefully coordinated with your seller’s solicitor, too.

Ready to begin your journey to sell a property in Hemel Hempstead?

If you’re interested in selling property in Hemel Hempstead and its surrounding areas, visit our office at 67 Marlowes, call us on 01442 233533 or register below so we can arrange a time for a sales negotiator to speak with you. We look forward to kick-starting your selling journey!