John Lake Estate Agents: Information for Sellers

Information for vendors wishing to instruct John Lake Estate Agents to sell their South Devon property

WHY USE JOHN LAKE TO SELL YOUR PROPERTY?

We feel that our firm is successful because we give time to our clients and gear our service to their needs i.e. Many live abroad or in other parts of the country or can only be contacted at certain times - this is where we score being such a close knit office - we all know what is going on and share the responsibility between us if perhaps someone is away or on holiday. We do not hold by the "don't know, don't care" attitude that has infiltrated itself into many businesses nowadays.

We specialize in a specific area of the coastline and that saves purchasers being offered properties that they have not the remotest interest in, why waste time, there is little enough of it!

We also offer a number of specialised services for sellers:

PRIVATE VALUATION Either to update the client on the value of their property or to assess the correct figure for fire/theft insurance.

PROBATE VALUATION Acting for either solicitors or individual clients who are administering a deceased parties estate, where a valuation of the property and very often contents is undertaken for the executors.

COURT OF PROTECTION When we would be called in to assess the value and correct method of sale in the disposal of a client's property when they are deemed to be no longer capable of handling their own affairs (under the mental health act). This work must always be carried out to the letter as we are basically working for a government department and they naturally have to be very specific on protocol and administration of the parties' affairs.

Very often these properties are sold by tender, thereby inviting the best offer to establish that the very best figure has been obtained.

AUCTION AND TENDER These are two methods used to sell properties but it is obviously of vital importance that the right properties are chosen. There is nothing worse than a failed public auction, but conversely nothing better when several bidders are keen to buy and the final price reflects this.

A sale by informal tender will give a degree of flexibility to the client as he or his administrators will be presented with a choice of buyers, probably all in differing circumstances and then we would recommend the party that seems most secure, not always quite the highest figure, but the person most likely to complete the transaction.

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