Selling Your Home

Boococks are uniquely positioned to assist you in the sale of your home. Not only can we assist you in the valuation, marketing and sale of your home, but also as part of Calderdale’s largest solicitors practice we can provide you with a professional and competitively priced conveyancing service and are able to liaise with the solicitor acting on your behalf throughout the conveyancing process.

Steps

1) We will visit your property and provide you with a market appraisal. If you wish us to proceed with the sale you will be asked to complete an instruction form.

2) We will advise you on the best way to market your property using our sales showroom, the local media, our website, Rightmove and three further property portals in addition. We will also consider other marketing strategies such as regional magazines and open viewings as might be appropriate for your property.
We will liaise with you throughout the marketing process and can arrange accompanied viewings where appropriate at no extra charge.

3) Throughout the marketing process we would hope to identify a number of potential buyers and we will assist you in identifying not only the best offer but the purchaser best placed to proceed within the timescale you might require.

4) Once a purchaser has been identified and an offer accepted a solicitor will be instructed. If you are using our all-inclusive package or otherwise using Wilkinson Woodward as your solicitors we will instruct them in-house. Should you prefer to instruct your own solicitors we will send out sales particulars to them.

5) Legal Process – if you are utilising Wilkinson Woodward and it is not an all-inclusive package, we will provide you with a quotation of costs and if you instruct us to proceed the solicitor dealing with the matter will require certain information from you. Your solicitor will then obtain a copy of your title deeds and prepare a contract for sale to be dispatched to the buyer’s solicitor.

6) The buyer will usually have a survey carried out, often for mortgage purposes, and the solicitors will usually undertake a number of searches and may raise a number of enquiries with your representatives which they may need to discuss with you. When the buyer’s finance is in place and they have dealt with all their searches and enquiries, they may then be in a position to proceed to exchange of contracts. Your solicitor will at that time have you sign a contract for sale and a completion date will be agreed between you and the buyer through your solicitors. The completion date will be inserted in the contract and contracts will then be exchanged between the solicitors. At the point of exchange of contracts both parties are committed to proceeding with the transaction and to completing on the completion date.

7) Prior to completion the buyer’s solicitors will obtain all monies over and above any deposit paid on exchange necessary to complete the transaction and you must make arrangements to vacate the property, usually by 2pm on the completion date. On the day of completion your keys can be passed over to the buyer through us or directly if that is more convenient to you. However, keys should only be passed over to the buyer once your solicitor has advised that monies have been received from the buyer’s solicitors.

8) Your solicitor will repay any mortgage on the property and will account to you for the net proceeds of sale. We would normally raise our account after contracts have been exchanged and pass that to your solicitor who would normally pay it out of the proceeds of sale, having confirmed with you it is acceptable to do so.

9) We will liaise with you and your solicitor throughout this process to keep you advised of developments and to assist you with any problems which might arise. We will also liaise closely with your buyer to ensure they are progressing matters in the manner you would expect.

As part of a legal practice we are well versed in the conveyancing process and ideally positioned to assist you with any problems that might arise. Hopefully this will mean you are able to enjoy a stress free transaction.