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Your Property, Our Priority.

From valuation through to completion, we are dedicated to achieving the best results for our clients.
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The Process of Selling Your Home

Selling your property with White & Guard is a straightforward journey when you understand the key stages. Below, we’ve outlined the process to guide you every step of the way.

  • Preparing for Sale
  • Marketing Your Property
  • Accepting an Offer
  • Contract Exchange
  • Completion Day

We ensure that your home will gain as much attention as possible when we launch it, so capturing the widest an audience is crucial.

Our photographers are exceptionally experienced and will make your home look as attractive as it possibly can be, even more attractive that it already is of course!

 

Combined with a carefully designed floorplan, strong imagery, a thoughtfully written description that creates the very best impression, even drone shots of the house and edited videos to tasteful music, which capsulate any potential buyers is discussed with you at the beginning, as we believe that standing out is a powerful force.

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Although many of our buyers come from our own channels, whether that’s social media, our editorial content or property alerts, a certain percentage also comes through the various property portals that we use, which is all the more reason to make sure you home is positioned ahead of the competition.

 

We also say that ‘For Sale’ signs are your friend. They have been around for centuries and there’s a reason for this, it’s simply because they work! So perhaps think twice about turning one down.

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In the UK around 35% of all sales fall through after an offer is agreed. Being as aware of this as we are, means that we have mechanisms in place on your behalf to ensure that you are not part of this statistic.

We check, in detail, the position of every buyer expressing interest in your home, in terms of the feasibility of the offer from a meeting that will be set up with one of our financial advisors, we then conduct detailed research into any other property’s that may be involved.

All of this is done by people that have many years’ experience and look at the sale of your home as if it were their own.

We also suggest that getting the right solicitor is paramount, as speed and attention to detail in this regard is so very important. Our panel of chosen lawyers are also the best at what they do and we will discuss this with you at a very early stage.

White & Guard customer accepting an offer

With the close relationships we have with the solicitors we work with, the legal process is both efficient and the transaction should proceed smoothly from start to finish.

Stage 1 - When an offer is agreed you instruct your solicitor, we also advise that this can easily be done much earlier, even at the point of placing your home on the market, saving valuable time  and enabling the solicitor to start work on their ‘Client Care Pack’. You now apply for a mortgage and for a survey.

Stage 2 - The solicitor reviews and checks the contract pack from the sellers solicitor. Once the mortgage offer is received by the solicitor, they will then send your mortgage report and the lenders requirements.

Stage 3 - The lawyers make the appropriate searches. They then raise enquiries with the sellers lawyer.

Stage 4 - The solicitor checks the sellers replies to enquiries and searches and then deal with any legal requirements in the mortgage offer and survey. They then report to you on the title and searches.

Stage 5 - The solicitors then request the deposit from you and your buildings insurance policy details in readiness for exchange.

Stage 6 - The solicitors request the mortgage advance for completion.

Stage 7 - Mortgage money gets transferred from the lender.

White & Guard customer exchanging contracts

This is the day the money changes hands, the paperwork is finalised and the property officially becomes yours. Your solicitor will request the funds from your lender, transferring them to your seller’s solicitor, you then receive a completion statement. It’s now time to get going with the removal van and the best part, collecting your new keys!

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As members of the prestigious Property Guild, we have the opportunity to promote your home across the UK through its extensive nationwide network of the very best independent agents.

“We become trusted to handle someone’s primary financial asset and work closely to shepherd them through a huge emotional transaction and we do it very well” 
Claire Southwell, Director.

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01489 893946

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02382 022192

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Southampton
SO18 6TE

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02382 022199

457 Fair Oak Road
Fair Oak
Eastleigh
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01489 779030

13 St Johns Centre
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