Private Valuation

Either to update the client on the value of their property or to assess the correct figure for fire/theft insurance.

Probate Valuation

Acting for either solicitors or individual clients who are administering a deceased parties estate, where an open market valuation of the property and very often contents is undertaken for the executors.

Court of Protection

When we would be called in to assess the value and correct method of sale in the disposal of a client's property when they are deemed to be no longer capable of handling their own affairs (under the mental health act). This work must always be carried out to the letter as we are basically working for a government department and they naturally have to be very specific on protocol and administration of the parties' affairs.

Auction and Tender

These are two methods used to sell properties but it is obviously of vital importance that the right properties are chosen. There is nothing worse than a failed public auction, but conversely nothing better when several bidders are keen to buy and the final price reflects this.

Our senior partner, John Lake, is our in house auctioneer and a fellow of the National Association of Auctioneers and Valuers. 

A sale by either informal or formal tender allows a specific timescale for marketing with a set time and date for sealed bids to be provided by ready and able purchasers.  These forms of sale will give a degree of flexibility to the client as he or his administrators will be presented with a choice of buyers, probably all in differing circumstances and then we would recommend the party that seems most secure, not always quite the highest figure, but the person most likely to complete the transaction.