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Selling Property

Our award-winning residential property team can help you with all aspects of selling your house or flat. Whether it’s your home or an investment property, we understand that property is likely to be your most valuable asset and when you decide to sell you want efficient, personal, jargon-free advice that gets the deal done. You also want clarity over about how much it will cost – that’s why we offer expert advice, rooted in knowledge of the local market, and delivered to fixed fee structures. Our team will support you at every stage, communicating regularly and ensuring that you are in the best position to make informed decisions.

Our property sellers’ service

Your property sale will be handled by a senior and experienced conveyancing lawyer with an assigned assistant. That means you’ll have two people you can contact who will be familiar with your file and the progress of your sale.

We know that our clients across Cornwall and Devon appreciate our personal approach. Their feedback has led to us winning a host of customer service awards at the ESTAS Conveyancer Awards.

We are members of both local and national conveyancing bodies including the Conveyancers Association and The Bold Legal Group. These memberships enable us to provide advice and insight that takes full account of the latest developments in property law and the trends and themes that are shaping both local and national markets. This includes being on top of the changing requirements for property sellers – with our help you don’t have to wait for a buyer to be contract ready.

What does a conveyancing solicitor do?

When you are selling a property, we work with your estate agent, the buyer’s solicitor and other specialists, coordinating the whole process and ensuring everything progresses smoothly and that you know exactly what is happening every step of the way.

There are three key stages to selling a property:

  • Gathering property information – We will provide you with a property questionnaire and fixture/fitting list. This will ensure that any buyer has all the important information about the property. We will also obtain the deeds to your property. We will prepare a contract package for your buyer and handle any enquiries from their solicitor.
  • Progressing the sale – When contracts are due to be exchanged, we will communicate with your buyers’ solicitors to ensure everything is progressing as quickly as possible. We will also deal with any enquiries raised by the property searches.
  • Exchanging and completing – We will manage the exchange of contracts and negotiate a completion date with your buyer. We will ensure the Transfer Deed is signed, transferring the ownership of the property to the buyer.

For more information download our step-by-step guide to selling a property.

How long will it take to sell my property?

The average property purchase takes between 12 and 24 weeks. However, this period will be affected by a number of factors, including how long it takes for your buyer to secure a mortgage offer and the complexity of the transaction. Above all, it depends on the other parties in the chain and how their transactions progress.

Fees for conveyancing

We recognise that you may be nervous about the legal costs of property transactions. That’s why we offer fixed fees for conveyancing, with no hidden costs. With Coodes as your conveyancing solicitors, you’ll have complete certainty – about the process, the progress, and how much it’s going to cost.

Team

Kate Bayley

Head of Residential Property

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Kerry Tresidder

Partner

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Laura Noble

Partner

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Sarah Cowley

Partner

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Kathryn Shaw

Senior Associate

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Laura Vanstone

Senior Associate

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Michelle Hawkins

Senior Associate

Ann-Marie Lock

Associate

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Chloe Liddicoat

Associate

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Heidi Start

Associate

Karen Jones

Associate

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Lianne Priest

Associate

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Sophie Jones

Associate

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Teresa Scoular

Associate

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Emma Pearce

Licensed Conveyancer

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Hannah Knight

Paralegal

Juliet Knowles

Conveyancing Executive

Lisa Barnett

Paralegal

Lottie Jose, Paralegal

Lottie Jose

Paralegal

Martyn Coad

Licensed Conveyancer

Sandy Collings

Chartered Legal Executive

Client Testimonials


Lianne - Of all the solicitors and agents involved in this chain, I am 100% certain you guys were by far the most professional and most personable, making what was a stressful experience, that little bit less fraught.

From the start both Lianne and Karen were extremely approachable. They always returned calls and we felt they were on our side throughout the whole selling process. Would 100% recommend.

I have dealt with Teresa for years and find her very easy to deal with. Always helpful and quick at responding to enquiries. The feedback from our clients is very positive so we always recommend Teresa at every opportunity and yes would be great if she could deal with both ends!

Estate agent

Lisa and Lianne - We really appreciate the technical due diligence, advice, and guidance you have provided throughout the process. Your expertise helped us navigate several aspects that we would not have fully understood ourselves, and we are very grateful for your support from start to finish.

Lisa and Lianne - I just wanted to say a huge thank you to you and the rest of the team at Coodes for all your time, patience, and support throughout the purchase of our new build holiday let.

Kate Bayley was very quick, professional, ease of contact and always very reassuring. Help was on hand at every stage. We can’t praise her enough. Perfect.

Kate was absolutely brilliant in helping me with my first purchase ... I was completed within six weeks.

Lianne was excellent throughout the entire process. Always keeping us up to date with progress and any questions we had were answered very quickly. Constantly chasing for us to make sure that we could get exchanged and completed on a short time frame.

Lisa Barnett - Excellent lawyer that you can feel confident in. I’m very grateful to them.

Truly excellent support. I was told that I would be supported to sell my property as quickly as possible. This was true to their word.

Michelle was incredibly thorough and efficient as well as being quick to respond, calm and patient. I wouldn’t hesitate for a moment to recommend her to anyone and my experience with other Coodes staff was also excellent. Huge thanks to all involved.

Teresa - Excellent Service - This is the second time I have requested Teresa to assist with conveyancing matters. Excellent service as always and really helpful.

Lisa Barnett - First class service, both personal and professional at all times.

Many thanks to Laura and Emma for a great service and attention to detail. A very smooth experience. Would highly recommend.

Sophie and her team worked tirelessly to achieve the sale of the property and she was always helpful and worked with the other side to get the sale over the line. I have no hesitation in recommending her and Coodes.

Laura, we have to say, was excellent throughout what was a pretty torrid experience due to what was happening further down the chain. Thoroughly recommend her professional services.

Kerry - Excellent service, everything explained at each process, communication excellent throughout. All staff very friendly and helpful especially Kerry, Debbie and Lottie.

Teresa - We have been very fortunate in having your services both in selling and buying our properties where we have felt absolute confidence at all stages and in the communication process in particular. Thank you both for all your attention to our many questions, we would not hesitate to use you and Coodes services again.

Michelle - thank you and the rest of the team at Coodes for your endless patience and outstanding service you have given my wife and I, it is very much appreciated.

I cannot recommend Lisa highly enough and urge anyone who needs their conveyancing handled in a timely and professional manner to get in touch with her without delay. 5* from me, thank you Lisa x

From start to finish Lisa Barnett at Coodes handled everything with speed, efficiency and professionalism. Moreover she was a friendly reassuring voice who helped me to keep calm in what could be an otherwise overwhelming and stressful situation.

Heidi - Fantastic! Everything about my experience was efficient, stress free & professional from start to finish, would highly recommend.

From instruction to completion Kerry and her team have been outstanding. They have been professional, efficient, quick to act, clear in communication, and given us confidence and peace of mind throughout. Thank you!

Teresa and Helen - We would like to thank you both for the excellent, highly professional skills and the speed in which you conducted your services relating to our house sale and the purchase of our new home. We were absolutely delighted with the service we received. Thank you so much for everything and we would use your services and recommend your services in the future.

Michelle Hawkins - lots of gold stars because you have been amazing. You can’t go anywhere in case I need you again! I will be recommending you to everyone.

Impeccable Efficiency! Solicitors as a breed are not noted for their alacrity, but Sandy Collings is surely the exception that proves the rule. Whatever detail crops up, be it big or small, she's on it instantly. I cannot recommend her too highly.

Kerry - You have been nothing but brilliant and I am really grateful for how prompt, approachable and helpful you have been throughout.

Kerry Tresidder - Great friendly helpful - not bad price. So helpful, went above and beyond, spotted stuff that could have gone unnoticed, reasonable price, constantly kept up to date, made easy and stress free and real nice people.

Chloe - Thank you again for being truly brilliant. We are so grateful and it feels like having a friend acting for us, who knows us and all our quirks, which makes the whole thing just so much nicer all round.

We could not have been happier with the service provided and we are incredibly grateful to Heidi and Kelly for all of their hard work on this transaction.

Heidi was thorough, diligent, responded very promptly and proactively chased the buyers and other parties on our behalf.

We were fortunate enough to engage Heidi Start for the sale of our former family home and she provided a top notch service from beginning to end.

I would 100% recommend Lisa Barnett in future, a massive massive thank you.

Lisa Barnett excelled through with the purchase of our property and got things done.

Lisa Barnett was an amazing breath of fresh air who put us at ease during a stressful period.

What has truly stood out is the way you constantly went above and beyond. Nothing was ever too much trouble for you.

I just want to say how deeply and genuinely grateful I am for everything you’ve done in bringing this matter to a successful close

Happy client

Hannah has been nothing short of amazing and we would definitely use again.

Happy client

House Sale & Purchase Efficient, effective with excellent clear communication in a friendly and helpful manner throughout. Karen & Lianne work well together as a team We have no hesitation in recommending them.

Clients

Kerry was incredibly professional and easy to communicate with - she's friendly, responds promptly to emails and made the entire process more straightforward than it could have been. Very pleased we went with Coodes.

Client

Teresa - Our heartfelt thanks for all your professional support, patience and timely advice throughout the whole conveyancing process. We would highly recommend you to others.

I have bought and sold houses 5 times and you are by far the best solicitor I have ever had. Your attention to detail and communication just makes everything so much easier so thank you!

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Key contact

Kate Bayley

Head of Residential Property

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