Selling

Spencer Kennedy sells properties in Dulwich Village and the surrounding areas.

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. We at Spencer Kennedy set ourselves the highest standards, and, for your peace of mind, are regulated by the Ombudsman for Estate Agents (OEA), the Office of Fair Trading (OFT), the National Association of Estate Agents (NAEA) and, through our Rentals Property Management Team, the Association of Residential Letting Agents (ARLA). We always aim to eliminate the stress and make the experience of selling your property as easy as possible.

What to Do Next

In the meantime, here is how we handle your property – before, during and after the sale.

VALUATION

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

INSTRUCTION OF THE AGENT

Having received your valuation, and provided that you are satisfied, we spring into action as follows;

HOME INFORMATION PACK (HIPS)

Immediate arrangements are made to acquire an Energy Performance Certificate for your property (unless one is already held). At the same time applications are submitted for all the other legal requirements of the HIPS package. See the Spencer Kennedy HIPS page for full information.

SPENCER KENNEDY WEBSITE

Your property will be advertised on our website within a few hours and colour photographs, floor plans and 360º virtual tours will be added within a couple of days. We are the only agents in the area to offer genuine 360º virtual tours. Our website receives more than 120,000 hits per month, obtained by our search optimisation technician and our employment of the leading property portals, including findaproperty, rightmove, google, net-lettings,  upmystreet, Timesonline, yahoo, aol and orange.

TELE_SALES AND MAIL SHOTS

All registered prospective buyers will be notified of your property by telephone and/or email within hours of coming to market, unless we are instructed to proceed at a slower pace by our vendor.

PROPERTY DETAILS

A prestigious bespoke brochure of professional photographs, floor plans and details highlighting the vitally important aspects of your home will be available for distribution within a few days. Property brochures are always subject to vendor approval.

WINDOW DISPLAY

An advertisement is displayed in the window of our centrally located Spencer Kennedy office on the day of instruction, once again, providing this pace suits the vendor.

FOR SALES BOARD 

This is the most simple and effective marketing tool, available 24 hours a day.

JOURNALS/MAGAZINES/SPONSORSHIPS

Spencer Kennedy invests in double page exposure in the widely distributed ‘Living South’ Magazine. This means that we can devote particular attention to individual properties with full page exposure.

We are also prominent in ‘The London Property News’ in which we have regular editorial features as well as our regular page of properties.

We also advertise in national newspapers where appropriate, and regularly sponsor local exhibitions, charities and events.
 
An increasingly effective tool is the SPENCER KENNEDY MAGAZINE which is distributed to over 8,000 prospective buyers, local residents.and mailed out to international buyers.
This prestigious coffee table magazine offers the opportunity of entire pages to be devoted to individual properties and we have been overwhelmed by the response to the quality and effectiveness of our own in-house periodical. In addition you have the ability to download our magazine from the Spencer Kennedy website homepage.

VIEWINGS

We provide accompanied viewings by experienced staff – with access and appointment times to suit our vendors.
We provide regular feedback and stay in close touch with our vendors with regard to their property and the conditions of the market.

OFFERS

When an offer is made on your property we aim to provide accurate information concerning the status of the buyer.
We ask for confirmation of their ability to purchase from banks, accountants, financial advisors or mortgage brokers.
Our intention is to do as much as possible to negotiate, on your behalf, a sound sale at the best possible price for you

AGREED SALE 

At this point (if you have not already done so), you will need to instruct a solicitor and, should you require assistance, Spencer Kennedy will be only 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 CONTRACTS – As long as the mortgage offer has been received and cleared funds placed with your buyer’s solicitor, exchange of contracts can take place.

COMPLETION – On exchange of contracts a mutually convenient date is agreed for completion and your actual house move - this is usually between 7 & 8 days following exchange but can be sooner or later depending on sellers, buyers and their respective solicitors.

UPDATING ON YOUR SALE

At Spencer Kennedy, 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 progressed as smoothly and as stress-free as possible.

SPENCER KENNEDY - THE LONGEST ESTABLISHED ESTATE AGENTS IN DULWICH VILLAGE