Speed up your property sale

With something as significant as buying and selling a property, getting from start to finish will always take a bit of time. However, there are plenty of ways you can help speed up the process. Choosing the right estate agent, getting your paperwork together early and completing the Property Information Questionnaire as soon as you can are key.

The number of weeks a property transaction can take varies from a minimum of 12 weeks to anything up to over five months. To speed up this process you can help your estate agent, conveyancer or solicitor, and mortgage advisors by gathering all the necessary paperwork and information you’ll need before your house sale starts.

It is well known that the pre-exchange period is part of the process that is most prone to delays, so it is at this point where you can expect a lot of back and forth between all parties involved — especially if you’re part of a chain.

Help to get you prepared

Using Propertymark’s Property Information Questionnaire (PIQ) has consistently sped up the process as it is designed to retrieve the majority of the information needed at this stage of the process right at the start of the sale. It can then be shared between all the relevant parties and shows all the information an agent needs to start to market the property properly.

Speak to your estate agent about our PIQ. It will save you time and money and takes away a lot of the problems that so often occur in a property sale—complete it before your house is sale-ready.

Other paperwork
Alongside the PIQ, you will also need copies of a handful of paperwork, including:

• a copy of the lease (if the property is leasehold)
• documentation related to the freehold (if a freehold property)
• FENSA certificates for replacement windows
• your Energy Performance Certificate (EPC)
• relevant building restrictions
• building regulation certificate when alterations have taken place
• Gas Safety certificate for a new boiler