Selling your home with your preferred Estate Agent

We believe that the deal arranged with Countrywide offers the quickest and best value route to selling your home.

If you would rather use your own estate agent, below is a guide on what your chosen agent will need to do for you:

1. Provide you with a market appraisal to guide you on the best price for marketing your home.  Please provide this to LiveWest, as soon as you have it, so that we can produce Key Information Documents to provide to your chosen estate agent.

2. If you do not have a valid EPC, your estate agent will arrange one for you.

3. Please complete our application to sell and provide a copy of your EPC and market appraisal.

4. LiveWest will put together Key Information Documents (KIDs) and provide these to your chosen estate agent.

5. You will need to speak with your estate agent to decide how viewings will be conducted.  Some agents will need you to do your own viewings and feedback.

6. You can discuss with your chosen estate agent, who you feel is the most appropriate candidate to apply for your property, following the viewings.

7. Please ask your estate agent to only put forward to LiveWest, the applicant that you have chosen.

We recommend that you choose an estate agent who is familiar with the shared ownership scheme.

If your property becomes difficult to sell, you will need to work with your estate agent to come up with a plan on how to move things forward, and let us know what you decide.

Although some online estate agents offer a lower commission fee, as the seller, please bear in mind that you will likely be responsible for:

•    Ensuring the accuracy of the property listing and photographs, to avoid misrepresenting the sale.

•    Viewings and feedback.

•    Sales negotiation (agreeing the price).

•    Fixtures and fittings (for example, including or offering as a separate sale, carpets, white goods etc.).

•    Sales progression (making sure all aspects of the sale come together).

•    Communicating with your buyer and your solicitor.  You will not be entitled to speak to your buyer's solicitor.

•    Communicating with LiveWest to keep us updated on the progress.

•    Negotiating completion.

•    Dealing with the handover of keys on the day of completion.

Application form to sell your home