The Purchasing Process 

 

​Selling your property to The Ethical Housing Company is a simple, quick and transparent process. We aim to complete on purchases within 8 weeks of our initial offer made, usually a little longer for portfolio acquisitions. We keep you informed throughout the process and will always strive to make a purchase wherever possible. We’re not here to waste anyone’s time least of all our own!

 

Stage 1 – Desktop valuation of your property/portfolio and indicative purchase price

 

We will ask you for some basic details about your property and calculate an indicative offer price. This price is subject to property inspections and surveys. If you accept this indicative offer in writing (email) then we will arrange to visit your property/portfolio. If you can’t accept the offer then we terminate the process. 

 

Stage 2 - Preliminary Property Inspection

 

We will arrange a preliminary property inspection attended by ourselves, to determine whether or not the property is suitable for us to let. If the property is tenanted the tenants must be in. If the property is not suitable, we will notify you as soon as possible with the reason/s why we will not be purchasing. If you are able to address the reason(s), for example, you offer to complete some repairs that we require, then we may then be able to proceed.

 

If the property is suitable we will confirm the indicative offer price, or make a revised offer e.g. if it needs works doing. When you accept this offer in writing (email) then we will instruct our surveyor to carry out a building survey. If you do not agree to any revised offer price, the process will terminate. 

 

Stage 3 – Survey and Electrical Testing 

 

We will instruct our surveyor to attend ASAP. If all okay with the survey and no major works needed, we will confirm our offer still stands and then instruct our electrician to carry out electrical testing. We will review the electrical report and confirm offer price still stands, or a revised offer if any major works needed. Assuming all okay and you agree to any amended offer price, we then proceed to conveyancing. 

 

Stage 4 - Conveyancing, exchange and completion 

 

Once instructed, our solicitors aim to complete all acquisitions within 4 weeks. This is for individual properties and for portfolios (the longer time needed for portfolios is property inspection/survey stage). You will need to use your own solicitor and we ask that you ensure they respond quickly to our solicitor's requests, so there are no unnecessary delays. 

 

Our promise to you 

 

All through the process, we are honest with you, we will only reduce our offer price if we find major problems from the survey or electrical testing. We will also give you the option to carry any such works out yourself if you prefer to do this and prevent the offer price from reducing.