Step one: a conversation, not a formality
It opens with the address and a short account of the house and the household timetable. The state of the decoration is irrelevant at this point, and so is whether you have decided to sell at all.
The team checks the street against the districts where builders are buying, looks at the sales pattern around it, and tells you honestly whether a figure is likely to be worth your time.
Step two: a figure with the evidence attached
Pricing starts from what newly built houses on similar ground nearby have actually achieved. Building expense, the cost of carrying a project, and the margin a builder requires are then subtracted one at a time.
You receive the resulting figure in writing alongside the inputs that produced it. If a line in the sums looks wrong to you, say so, and it gets reworked in the open rather than defended with adjectives.
Step three: the date belongs to you
Completion can be set as close as 7 to 21 days where a household needs pace, or pushed months out where a move, a school term or an onward purchase needs room. A short stay after completion can be discussed where the next home lags behind.
Once the date is agreed it is written down and held. The rest of the machinery arranges itself around it, which is the opposite of a marketed sale, where the seller arranges life around everyone else.
Step four: a quiet completion
A title company or an attorney, as the state prefers, handles the formalities, and the firm coordinates the sequence so the paperwork arrives in the right order. There is no inspection stage designed to reopen the price, and no repair list to argue over.
When the day lands, the agreed amount is what the statement is built on. Nothing about the sale has been published, no strangers have walked the rooms, and no commission has been trimmed away on the way through.