First you need to find out what you property is worth so you need to get an accurate valuation and instruct a good agent to list your property for sale. After tidying and sprucing up your property, it’s ready for viewing and once you’ve found a buyer, you should have a written confirmation of the offer being made from your agent. Serious buyers are those who have a clear idea of what they want, have a mortgage offer in principal and deposit and are ready to get the ball rolling. You then need to agree what’s included in the sale (any extras, furniture, curtains etc) and what’s not, agree dates for the buyers survey to take place and agree potential dates for exchange and completion. You should have a solicitor instructed by now who will deal with all the legal aspects of the sale - dealing with preliminary enquiries, drafting the contract, dealing with the HIP, and collating all the legal documents like title deeds, copy lease, planning consents, building regulations and if leasehold, any service charge accounts etc. Once all the legal documentation is in order, you will be ready to exchange contracts and the deposit usually 10% will be paid to your solicitor. A date will be set for completion, usually within 2 to 4 weeks of exchange although this can be simultaneous with exchange and completion on the same day. Completion is when all money transactions are completed with the balance of the purchase monies being transferred over to your solicitor when officially your property is now sold.