Edinburgh East
£210,000
Edinburgh South West
£595,000
Edinburgh North West
£299,995
Edinburgh West
£240,000
Edinburgh City Centre
£299,995
What Happens on the Date of EntryThere is no set time. The availability of the keys is determined by (1) the sellers moving out (2) your mortgage funds coming into our Bank Account and (3) If selling, your purchasers being able to pay the price over to us. We have no direct control over any of these and therefore can't give you any exact time until it all falls into place on the day. We normally arrange for your mortgage to come in the day before, to avoid delay in this connection. You come in to sign the Deeds a few days before the Entry Date and leave us one key to your place, which we send to the Purchaser's solicitors the night before the entry date to be "held as undelivered". This means they hold the keys to our order. They send us the purchase price cheque on the same basis. We send a cheque for the Purchase price of your new place to the Sellers Solicitors and they send us a key, both "to be held as undelivered." We then have to wait for everything to fall into place. You load up in the morning and wait for our call. The purchasers Solicitor calls us to say they are ready for us to cash their cheque. We ring the sellers solicitor to check if their clients are clear and if so we tell them to cash our cheque. We call you and ask you to call in to collect your keys to the new place. Based on the time of our call you let us know when you will be clear of your own place. (You leave the remaining keys in the property when you leave it for the last time). We phone the purchasers' solicitor and confirm that they can hand over the keys to the Purchasers but tell them not to attempt access until after the time you have given us. When you get the keysTake a note of the meter readings and phone in the readings for both properties to the Service Providers on the phone numbers opposite. If you don’t know the Gas and Electricity suppliers, note the meter serial number and for Gas, contact Transco on 0845 605 0570 opt 2; for Electricity contact Scottish Power on 0845 270 9101 Check everything is in working order. Remember that if something is working but does not comply with technical regulations, or if the missives state the seller would not be held liable, the seller is not responsible for the repair. If the property has been damaged since you viewed the seller may be liable for the repair but not if the damage existed before you viewed or if you had accepted any damage would not be repaired, at the missives stage. Get on the Voters Roll by contacting the number below. You lose a lot of points on a Credit Search if you are not registered to vote from your new address We sort out the Council tax for your sale and the Seller’s Solicitor should deal with the Council tax for your purchase. Unfortunately the Council will not acknowledge receipt of our Intimation of the change in ownership and we have no control over the actions of the Seller’s Solicitors actions so if you don’t hear from the Council in around 6 weeks give them a call direct to ensure that they have actioned the appropriate procedures.
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