Selling home of deceased

Nickyno

Please move this post if needed. 

We have now got letters of administration and are going to put my mother in laws house up for sale. 

What will we need?
Obviously we will use an estate agent, but what about solicitors?

Marcon

Nickyno said:

Please move this post if needed. 

We have now got letters of administration and are going to put my mother in laws house up for sale. 

What will we need?
Obviously we will use an estate agent, but what about solicitors?

Yes, you'll need solicitors.

RAS

England, Wales, Scotland?

Is the property registered?

Is the building (and contents) insured?

Do you have any documentation regarding boiler maintenance, replacement windows (FENSA), Building Control re alterations etc? Evidence of recentish repairs?

And a solicitor.

XzavierWalnut

Have you applied for probate, can take 16 weeks?

poppystar

XzavierWalnut said:

Have you applied for probate, can take 16 weeks?

OP has said they have letters of administration.

Flugelhorn

Yes you will need:

LoA

Any paperwork you can find but seriously don't fret if you can't - this is a probate sale and any missing items will be factored in for the purchasers to decide what the y want to do  - also any time asked questions on legal documents about the condition / work on the house / disputes just say you don't know 

A solicitor to do the sale 

An EA - we interviewed a few and chose a biggish local one (had had problems with v small ones in the past) 

Runner_Duck

Find an estate agent and a solicitor.  We interviewed 3 EAs before choosing one and actually asked the selected EA for a recommendation for the latter, which was a great success. We were advised to sell the house furnished, so declutter and clean if required.  Ditto make sure the garden is tidy.  We were told not to waste time/money on major repairs or redecorating just price it to accordingly but take advice from your EA, they will know the local market best.

Flugelhorn

Runner_Duck said:

 We were advised to sell the house furnished, so declutter and clean if required.  Ditto make sure the garden is tidy.  

Exactly ^ - we decluttered, got the carpets cleaned and thoroughly cleaned the rest. New bathmats - removed a phew family pictures and replaced them with neutral ones.  Still had gardener coming in so that was helpful in keeping the place neat. 

SVaz

You need a good local conveyancing solicitor,  close enough to pop in with pieces of the never ending stream of information they will require from the buyer’s side 😉
Gather all bits of info like boiler service record etc.
The good thing about selling a probate property is that you can answer ‘unknown’ on a lot of the questions on the TA6 form.  

Presumably you’ve already checked the Land registry and the property is already registered?