At Harwoods we know that service matters when it comes to selling your home. As an independent estate agency, our business is owned and run by the partners, who all live locally and take an active role in the day-to-day business.

With a partner personally overseeing your move you can be assured that we are committed to helping you every step of the way. Our personal service is one of the reasons why so many of our clients come back to us time after time.

Local and Experienced
Harwoods are based in Silver Street, Wellingborough with high profile offices in the heart of the town. We have one of the largest window displays in the town and our offices are passed by thousands of cars and pedestrians every week, maximising your property’s exposure to local buyers.

We have been successfully running our business for over 15 years and many of our partners and staff have been working in the local Wellingborough market from as early as the mid 1970s. We have dealt with thousands of property sales between us and have an in-depth knowledge and understanding of the local property market.

Effective Sales Team
We are always looking for clients to return to us and we can only build this loyalty by ensuring that we offer a constant, high-quality, personal service. We believe that we can only achieve that level of service by effective teamwork and employing exceptional staff.

 We are regularly told by our clients that we are “different from other agents”; a testament to our honest, open and more personal approach.  We take great care to ensure that the members of our residential sales team understand that this is the core ethos of our business.

Available when you are
Modern living means that more and more of our buyers and sellers are working longer hours and our offices are therefore open to reflect the need to be available when it suits our customers.

We are available 7 days a week, from 9.00am until 6.00pm weekdays, 9.00am until 4.00pm on Saturday and 11.00am until 2.00pm on Sunday. Our properties are available to browse on this website 24 hours a day.

High Quality Property Details
At Harwoods we take every effort when we create your Property Details to present your home in the best possible way and we will take a selection of good quality, full colour photographs that will capture specific features of the property.

 These will be incorporated into the finished brochure together with a set of floor plans that will allow prospective buyers to understand the layout of the property more easily.

You will have the opportunity to see and approve the property details before we commence marketing and we are happy to highlight elements of the property that you feel are particularly important. After all, we want you to be delighted with the finished property details that we produce for you.

High Profile Newspaper Advertising
Whilst a significant number of potential buyers now use the Internet to search for their new home, traditional newspaper advertising is still vital in ensuring that your property receives maximum exposure to the local market.

Our weekly property advertising appears in the Wednesday edition of the Evening Telegraph newspaper, that covers the whole of the East-Northamptonshire area, with a circulation of around 27,000 readers.

Harwoods’ newspaper advertising has been designed to be both eye-catching and easy-to-read and allows us to “show-case” your property to the local market place. We advertise in full-colour and your property will appear on a regular basis.

Internet Marketing
Instruct Harwoods and your property will be advertised on this website which we update several times each day. This site is designed to show the features of your property in a user-friendly way and includes useful features such as a full selection of colour photographs, floor plan layouts, location maps, room sized etc.

We will also promote your home on a number of additional property portals, the best-known being Rightmove. By advertising your property on Rightmove, Harwoods are able to show your home to the widest possible target market with a staggering 18 million visits from home-hunters to that site each month.

We will also ensure that your listing includes a floor plan, full selection of extra pictures and the ability to down-load a full set of sales details.

With modern technology we can also email full property details of your property to all potential home-buyers that are registered on our computerised mailing lists.

Home Information Pack

Home Information Packs (often referred to as Hips) have recently been introduced by the Government in an attempt to streamline the process of buying and selling property.

Since mid December of 2007 anyone selling a residential property will need to have a pack ordered before the property can be placed on the market.

The Home Information Pack can contain a number of documents that relate to the property, some of which are compulsory and others that are voluntary. The compulsory components of the pack include various legal searches, documents showing the legal title and an Energy Performance Certificate (commonly abbreviated to an EPC).

An Energy Performance Certificate is a document that show buyers and sellers how energy efficient a home is, using A to G ratings, similar to those found on domestic appliances. The certificate is designed to highlight, for each individual property, any improvements that can be made to cut heating and lighting bills etc, thus cutting carbon emissions. The certificate is prepared by either a Domestic Energy Assessor or Home Inspector, either of which will have been trained and licensed under a government accreditation scheme.

The cost of obtaining a basic Home Information Pack on a typical Freehold property with registered title is currently in the region of £299 plus VAT. Sellers of leasehold or properties with unregistered titles will pay slightly more.

If you decide that you would like Harwoods to market your property then we will be happy to organise the preparation of the pack on your behalf. Whilst the cost of obtaining a HIP falls to the seller, we can offer a variety of payment terms that we would be happy to explain upon request.

In order to offer our clients the very best level of service, we have a fully qualified and licensed Home Inspector, Mark Brookes as part of our team. Mark will come out to your property to undertake the energy assessment and so any delays will be kept to a minimum.

Our Credentials for your Peace of Mind
We believe that it is important for a professional estate agency to belong to the relevant trade bodies and schemes that are available to safe-guard members of the public.

Harwoods are therefore members of the National Association of Estate Agents, the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors and the Ombudsman for Estate Agents Scheme, which is an approved code that is recognised by The Office of Fair Trading.

Free Marketing Appraisal
We would like to have the opportunity of visiting the property that you are considering selling and we can then give you an assessment of the property’s likely sale price and suggest a suitable marketing price and sales strategy.

If you want to find out more about the service that Harwoods can provide then please either call into our offices in Silver Street, Wellingborough or telephone us on (01933) 278591.