advising on how and where to obtain a Home Report;
 

visiting your property to obtain details, measurements and photographs to be included in our Sale Particulars;
 

advising on how best to present your property to potential viewers (there is much you can do to maximise its appeal and viewers’ first impressions are crucial);
 

advertising the property on our website, in the local press, in our Property Display window on Commercial Street and in our free Property List (mailed every two weeks to a substantial number of people in Shetland and beyond);
 

setting a “closing date” for offers, reporting to you on offers received, discussing with you in detail the terms of the successful offer, subsequently issuing a formal qualified acceptance to the buyer’s solicitor and in time (typically 3-4 weeks) entering into a concluded contract with the buyer’s Solicitor;
 

advising on what documentation will need to be seen by the buyer’s Solicitor, e.g. planning consents, building warrants and completion certificates for any structural works carried out, extensions, re-roofings, central heating installation etc.
 

carrying out all Conveyancing work required to complete the transaction, including redemption of any mortgage on the property.

discussing with you how you will finance the purchase, from savings, mortgage or both? If you require a mortgage, have you discussed it with your lender and do you have its agreement in principle to make a loan offer or a mortgage promise?
 

discussing with you whether you or your lender require an additional survey or valuation bearing in mind that a Single Survey will be included in the seller’s Home Report;
 

formally noting your interest in any advertised property with the seller’s Solicitor. Should a closing date be fixed for offers to be submitted, this should ensure that you are advised of the date and have an opportunity to offer;
 

submitting a formal offer on your behalf and, if successful, subsequently discussing with you in detail the qualified acceptance, title deeds, title searches and other relevant documentation exhibited by the seller’s Solicitor;
 

drafting the Disposition (transfer deed) and adjusting its terms with the seller’s Solicitor;
 

acting on behalf of your lender (if appropriate) in preparing the mortgage deed (called a Standard Security) and obtaining your signature before submitting our report on title and request for the loan funds prior to completion;
 

settling the transaction by delivering a cheque for the purchase price to the seller’s Solicitor and receiving in exchange the signed Disposition, title deeds and other documentation and, most importantly, the key’s to the property;
 

arranging payment of Stamp Duty Land Tax (if any), registration in the Land Register of Scotland in Edinburgh of the Disposition and Standard Security (if any) and providing you in due course with copies of the Land and Charge Certificates issued by the Land Register.