Attracting Buyers
An early sale often happens because of our knowledge of our registered applicants and ability to match properties to buyers. We use an intelligent mix of traditional and high tech methods to ensure that your property has the maximum possible exposure to potential buyers from the moment we receive your instructions.

Accompanied Viewings with Feedback
In our experience, your very best chance of an offer comes when we accompany the Viewer. Our staff are trained to show your property in its best possible light and, to enable them to do so, they visit your property prior to the commencement of viewings to understand its features and merits.   Feedback is a very important part of our service to you and we will contact you after each viewing to let you know comments received. 

Minimising Delays
Our aim is to sell your property and progress the sale as quickly as possible. We understand each step in the sale process and we will liaise with all parties involved on your behalf including Surveyors, Solicitors, Mortgage Brokers and, if applicable, other Estate Agents to ensure a smooth move.

Outstanding Window Displays
Our eye catching modern offices at Caversham and Woodley are in busy locations with prominent window displays and high footfall.

Best Internet Exposure
Your property will feature on the Walmsley website and also on the top property portals in the country including www.rightmove.co.uk. Together these sites attract thousands of visits to our clients’ properties each month.   Our own site is recognised as being one of the very best in the area and includes full PDF details,   measurements, location maps, additional photographs and fast search facilities. Buyers are also able to register their requirements and are sent automatic e-mail notification of new properties matching their criteria.

Premier Newspaper Advertisements
Local property papers are an essential medium in the selling of property. With Walmsley your property will receive the very best publicity both the Reading’s Property Chronicle and Evening post.

Quality Property Prospectus
Accurate, well-presented and colourful property details are vital in order to promote the property and encourage viewings. An informative prospectus including floor plans and aerial photos can be produced, printed, emailed and posted on the Internet within a few hours.

Home Information Packs (HIPs) have been suspended with immediate effect.

The duties relating to HIPs are set out in Part 5 of the Housing Act (sections 155 to 159). The Government has decided to suspend the HIP duties with immediate effect pending their outright abolition at the earliest opportunity.

The effect of this is to provide that sellers and estate agents are no longer required to have or to provide copies of HIPs with effect from 21 May 2010.

In order to ensure that people selling their homes continue to make an Energy Performance Certificate available to prospective buyers, we have also laid before Parliament the Energy Performance of Buildings (Certificates and Inspections) (England and Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2010 which introduce a number of new requirements including:

• a new duty on the seller to secure that an energy performance certificate (EPC) has been commissioned before marketing of the property commences where no such certificate is already available
• an EPC has been commissioned when a Domestic Energy Assessor has been instructed to prepare the EPC and the EPC has either been paid for or has given a clear undertaking to pay for it
• a new duty on the person acting on behalf of the seller to be satisfied that an EPC has been commissioned before commencing marketing
• a new duty on both the seller and a person acting on their behalf to make reasonable efforts to secure an EPC within 28 days
• all of the new duties carry fixed penalties where somebody fails in the duty conferred on them by the new regulations

Completion Day
We endeavour to make completion as hassle free as possible and regard total management of this day as an integral part of our service. We maintain contact between all parties, co-ordinate your departure with your buyer’s arrival and arrange the collection/delivery of keys.  We can even arrange for a cleaner to make your day a little easier!

WALMSLEY DISTINCTIVE
Since it’s creation in the mid 1990’s, Walmsley has evolved into a highly respected Estate Agency that is, not only a market leader but has also developed into a sophisticated operation that is very well suited in the specialist area of distinctive homes.

Our great reputation for customer service and marketing is well known and proven by our many repeat clients.  We deal with a great number of well respected corporate firms including solicitors and new homes developers.  We are also proud to act for larger institutions including the University of Reading.

Simon Walmsley and David Burrell head the department and between them boast 42 years of combined experience in the field.  They both share a knowledge and passion for distinctive property.

Caversham and Woodley with their attractive surrounding villages offer a broad and interesting range of property types and carry a reputation as a good areas to live. As such, both become a nucleus for discerning applicants, but who are still looking in the broader Reading region to utilise its accessibility and amenities.

Our target instruction is a home which is distinctive by its nature, not by price or geography. Therefore, whether it is a modern executive detached in Earley; a listed townhouse in a central Reading conservation area; a garden or penthouse apartment or a Victorian cottage in South Oxfordshire, we can help.