Vendors Selling your property with Bruce & Partners could not be easier. Our staff are available six days a week to guide you through each and every stage.
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Preparing your property for going on the market
- Remove the day-to-day clutter to enhance the size of the rooms to make it more inviting for your viewers
- Consider ‘freshening up’ some of the rooms with a lick of paint
- Clean your windows and ensure they are free from mould
- Tidy up the garden and mend any fences or gates
- Check your garage doors open freely and remove any excess clutter from inside
- When you have completed all of the above, your are now ready to contact Bruce & Partners
Bruce & Partners free market appraisal
As part of the overall service, Bruce & Partners will give your property a free market appraisal, which includes the predicted selling price of the property and any hints or tips to improve your home for sale. Click here to view a sample vendor market appraisal form.
Bruce & Partners will send you a written quotation within two days of our initial visit and a member of our staff will phone you in person to ensure your understand the quoted selling price. Please click here to view our sample quotation.
Listing your property for sale
At this stage, you will receive an authorisation form, which you will be asked to sign and return to Bruce & Partners. Bruce and Partners will instruct a Home Report on your behalf, which became a mandatory requirement by the Scottish Government on 01/12/2008. Click here for further information: www.homereportscotland.gov.uk
Our staff will then arrange a convenient time to list your property ‘For Sale’ depending on your situation. Please click here to view a sample of our authorisation form.
In order to maximise the sale of your property, Bruce & Parnters will take measurements of all the rooms, take a set of high-resolution digital photographs of some of the rooms and erect a ‘For Sale’ board to the exterior of your property. You will then receive a draft schedule of particulars, which you should read through carefully, amend if necessary, initial each page and return to Bruce & Partners. Please click here to view a sample schedule of particulars.
Finally, when you are happy and have approved the appropriate documentation, you will receive a supply of schedules to distribute during the property viewings.
Marketing your property
Bruce & Partners will market your property in the following ways:
- On the Bruce & Partners’ web site
- In our window displays in both our Ellon and Aberdeen offices
- In our weekly Property Update
- Advertisements in The Press and Journal, Evening Express and other core local publications
- Links from www.scotia-homes.co.uk
Bruce & Partners, 23 Bridge Street, Ellon, AB41 9AA. Tel No. 01358 724405 – open six days a week
Bruce & Partners, 23-25 Chapel Street, Aberdeen, AB10 1SQ. Tel No. 01224 650600 open five days a week
Our fees
Bruce & Partners’ fee structure is extremely competitive and significant discounts are available if you are an existing client. A marketing fee is required within 28 days of listing and on receiving this payment, you will be offered the opportunity to advertise further. The overall sales fee is payable when the property has been sold.
Viewing your property
Bruce & Partners offers an accompanied viewing service and our staff will arrange viewings at a time that is convenient for all parties. You will be assigned a property consultant who will accompany viewers to look over your home. Alternatively, you may wish to carry out the viewings yourself.
Communication
Bruce & Partners will keep you fully informed of any interest received in your property and all comments or questions from viewers. Your assigned property consultant will discuss possible sales strategies with you and make any recommendations with regard additional advertising.
Receiving a note of interest
A viewer will ‘note interest’ through their solicitor if he or she is interested in purchasing your property. Your property consultant will keep you informed of all notes of interest.
Receiving an offer for your property
When an offer has been submitted, your property consultant will ring you to discuss the price, the date of entry and any items to be left in the property. If you agree in principal with the offer, an acceptance note will be passed to your solicitor. An ‘Under Offer’ sign will then be placed over the ‘For Sale’ sign.
Going to a closing date
If Bruce & Partners receives more than one note of interest, the property consultant will arrange to put your home to a ‘closing date’. Any solicitors that have submitted a note of interest will be informed of the agreed closing date and time.
You will be invited to be present at the Bruce & Partners’ office on the closing date, to hear the offers as they are announced. All the offers will be discussed and, when you have agreed in principal on which offer you wish to accept, all offering solicitors will be informed. The successful offer will be forwarded to your solicitor and an ‘Under Offer’ sign will be placed over the ‘For Sale’ sign. There is however no obligation on the vendor to accept any of the offers submitted at a closing date.
Revision Date: 06/11/2008
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