Getting ready to sell

In addition to your estate agent you will need to instruct a solicitor and perhaps consult with your bank manager, accountant or your financial advisor. Fisher German will be happy to make recommendations to ensure you have the best possible team with you.

Having selected your advisors, the next step is to compile appropriate documentation that proves your ownership of the property and demonstrates that any works that you have undertaken have been done correctly, in accordance with the law, regulations and with appropriate approvals.

Key documentation may include:

• HM Land Registry Title documents plus any Title insurance policies you may have taken out or inherited to solve Title defects • If you have undertaken building work, you may need to have: - Planning permission documentation for any major work carried out - Building regulation completion certificates - Any guarantees/warranties (you may have inherited these when you purchased the property) - For windows, you will need FENSA or CERTAS certificates • If your property is Listed or is in a

Conservation Area you will need: - Listed building consent for interior and exterior works - Conservation Area consent • A Gas check completed by a Gas Safe registered engineer • An Electrical Installation Condition

Report or a NAPIT or NICEIC report from a registered electrician • You could also need - Damp guarantees/warranties - A Party Wall agreement - A Japanese Knotweed management plan - An asbestos survey - Boiler or wood burning stove installation certificates

Before you can sell you are also required, by law, to prepare and offer an Energy Performance Certificate unless you live in a Listed property where it will generally not be required.

When instructing your estate agent, your solicitor and your mortgage lender, you will be required to provide documents so that your identity can be verified to comply with Anti Money Laundering regulations.