RATES

Sole Instruction
Freehold strictly 1.25% of the sale price paid upon completion.

Our minimum fee is £2,000.

Some additional charges may apply for tailored marketing campaigns Daily Mail, Telegraph, Devon Life and other national media formats.

Multiple or Joint Instructions
We accept some multiple or joint instructions depending upon the quality of the other agents. Standard Fees 2.5% (excluding promotions).

Please note that our fees may vary if the sale price is above £1,000,000.

Other Fees
Hourly rate for advice letters ie probate / family matters etc £100.
Auction fees 12% on items sold.

NB Cleverdons are only interested in selling your property and are not interested in mortgage, EPC or solicitors referral fees.

General Process As Follows:

1. Initial Contact
We arrange a convenient time to visit your property with complete discretion and confidentiality to assess the current market value and to discuss our company with you.


2. Inspection
Whilst visiting the property we will take full notes and information to enable us to prepare detailed sales particulars. Additionally digital colour photographs will be taken to incorporate in the particulars. Within 24 hours of our visit we will write to you confirming our advice on price, suggested marketing arrangements and our scale of fees.


3. Details
Our details are well known for being clear and concise and are in paper or glossy format. The sales particulars will require a copy of your EPC (energy performance certificate).


4. Instruction and Sales Particulars
On your instructions to proceed we will require you to sign our standard Sales Agreement in order that we comply with the requirements of the Estate Agents Act. At this stage we will prepare a draft of our proposed sales particulars for your comments and approval. Subject to any amendments you may wish to make we will then print the full particulars, incorporating colour photograph(s) for circularisation to our Mailing Register. Our particulars have acquired a reputation for being clear and concise and are in either paper or cardboard glossy format. We know that quality colour sales particulars create more interest and lead to more viewings.


5. Marketing
Primarily we employ an effective marketing campaign for our properties this includes local, county and regional weekly journals. Specific properties will require more specialist advertising and we tailor much of our marketing to our clients’ individual requirements.

Internet
Our website (since 1997) is an invaluable marketing tool, growing in importance every day. Whilst it is still vital to market your property in the usual way, we believe our clients attitudes are moving towards the ease of property searching via the comfort of their own home or office. An estimated 150 million people worldwide use the internet and with the increase in home and office computers our site is continually being visited. This website has over 690,000 hits each year mainly due to the high level ranking within the main search engines which we have. Our website is updated regularly so your property can be marketed 24 hours a day, 365 days of the year. We also selective property web portals.


6. Applicants
We have over 600 screened applicants registered on our Data Base at any one time and once we have received your instructions we circularise information regarding your property. Initially this will include an email message but many prospective buyers still like to receive the crisp design of our sales particulars and this mailing will take place immediately.


7. Enquiries
All enquiries generated to our office from the marketing programme are carefully sorted for their suitability and sales particulars will be forwarded as requested.

Please be clear that we are not like other residential agents in this area, we will ask about an applicants exact financial position before viewing or making any offer.


8. Viewing
Viewings are pre-arranged to a convenient time for you. If you are at work or away from the property then we will hold a key on you behalf and the viewer will be accompanied. (during our office hours) Additionally all our details carry “please do not contact the vendor direct” We always follow up every viewing to obtain positive (or negative) feedback and the reaction will be reported to you.


9. Offer
At such a stage as an applicant wishes to make an offer we request that they submit this to us in writing, fax or email. We would have already established the terms and conditions of any offer, more particularly the intending purchaser’s ability to proceed, whether a purchase is subject to a related sale, the position of any related sale, their financial ability to proceed including deposit available and finance arrangements in hand etc.


10. Solicitors
This is a very important factor within the transaction and with our experience we are able to recommend a good, highly knowledgeable solicitor. Sometimes and more importantly experience within more unusual aspects of Devon property. Flying freeholds, leaseholds, duchy etc.

Instructing Solicitors
Once a sale has been agreed and can proceed we formally write to both parties and their Solicitors with Memorandum of Sale setting out the terms and conditions of the sale. Hopefully your solicitor will be in possession of your properties HIP and EPC which will be required for the sale contract.

Sale Progress
A Survey and Valuation will normally be required by the purchaser and/or the Bank or other Institution providing finance for the transaction and we will liase with you regarding suitable appointments. As the days and weeks progress we will be regularly monitoring progress by contact with yourself, the purchaser(s) and Solicitors.

Exchange of Contracts and Completion
Subject to the necessary formalities being satisfactory completed a formal exchange of contracts will take place and a completion date agreed (moving day).


We at Cleverdons want to make your life simple as possible call in to the office, make an appointment or call 01363 77 77 44.