The whole sale in one place: the paperwork that stops a deal collapsing, pricing against real evidence, choosing an agent, viewings, offers, the legal stage and completion day. 18 chapters, UK-specific, free.
Selling a home in Great Britain takes around 216 days from listing to completion and roughly one agreed sale in four collapses before it finishes. Almost none of those collapses happen at the viewing. They happen weeks later in conveyancing, when a survey turns something up or a solicitor asks for a certificate nobody can find.
This guide is about being the seller that does not happen to. It runs to 18 chapters and about 25,000 words, written for England and Wales with proper notes for Scotland and Northern Ireland and everything in it was checked in August 2026.
Who it is for
Anyone selling a home in the UK, whether you are listing next month or quietly getting ready for next year. It assumes no knowledge and explains every term the industry uses without explaining. There are extra chapters for the sales that need more care: leasehold flats, tenanted property, probate, separation, negative equity and shared ownership.
What is inside
- The decision. Why you are moving, what moving actually costs, whether to sell first or buy first and when to list.
- The paperwork. The documents that sell a house and the honest fixes when one has gone missing.
- Pricing. What the evidence says, how to get to the right number and the questions that sort good agents from smooth ones.
- Choosing how to sell. High street, online, hybrid, auction and quick-buyer routes compared, plus the two minutes of contract reading that save thousands.
- Presentation. Where small money makes a real difference and why the energy story now sells houses.
- On the market. Photos, floorplan and words, launch week and viewings that convert.
- Offers. Every offer in writing and qualified, negotiating without losing your buyer and what to do when the valuation comes in low.
- The legal stage. Your conveyancer, the forms, enquiries, searches, the survey, exchange and the countdown.
- Completion day. How the day actually works, the moving checklist and leaving the logbook behind.
- The money chapter. The full bill worked through, mortgage moves that save real money, capital gains tax in plain English and stamp duty on your next purchase.
- When things go wrong. Fall-throughs played forward, gazundering, chain breaks and how to complain formally.
- What is coming. The reform roadmap and why upfront information is about to change the timetable for everyone.
- Checklists and a jargon translator for every stage.
Why it is free
We build homehogs, a home logbook that keeps documents, certificates, costs and jobs in one organised place. The guide is the argument for that habit made honestly: the seller who has kept a proper record answers enquiries in a day instead of a fortnight. You are welcome to take the guide and never think about us again.
