Housebuilders
Part exchange sold, assisted moves closed, and the plots left to you.
Lintel Homes sells and lets homes across Edinburgh and the Lothians. For a housebuilder that is three things we can take off your sales team’s desk: the part-exchange home you have taken in, the buyer’s own home standing between them and a reservation, and the investor who wants a rental figure before they reserve. This page says how each one runs, what it costs, and what you get every Monday.
Rather talk first? Call +44 131 381 3500 or write to sales@lintelhomes.co.uk and ask for the sales side.
Part exchange
A fee known on the day you take the keys, and a launch inside the week
A part-exchange home is a cost on your books from the day the keys arrive, and the number your sales director is measured on is how many days it stays one. So the service is written as dates, and the fee is settled before the first viewing.
Day one
The keys
We collect the keys, read the meters, photograph the condition room by room, and check the Home Report in your file. A report over 12 weeks old on the day of launch is refreshed by the surveyor at their own price, with nothing added by us.
By day five
On the market
Photography, a scaled floorplan, a video tour, written copy with every fact sourced, the listing live on lintelhomes.co.uk and the board up. A part-exchange home is usually priced as a fixed price or with a closing date in mind, because your number is the time it takes, and we say which we advise and why.
Every Monday
The written report
Viewings booked and held, what each viewer said in their own words, enquiries by source, the listing's figures, and the action for the week. One page, sent to the names you give us, in a form your regional meeting can read without a call.
Day 28
The price review
Four weeks of viewing evidence, in writing, with our advice on the figure. If the price should move we say so and by how much; if it should hold we say why. The decision is yours, and the re-launch with new photography costs nothing further.
Until missives conclude
Viewings, offers and the chase
Accompanied viewings seven days a week, booked online, with written feedback within 24 hours of each one. Notes of interest tracked, a closing date set when the interest justifies one, every offer put to you in writing with its date of entry and conditions, and the missives chased so the gap stays days rather than weeks.
Settlement
The keys go
Your solicitor concludes the missives and confirms the funds; we release the keys and send you the final meter readings the same day.
While it sells
The empty home, looked after
Included for as long as we are marketing the home. An empty house is a frozen pipe, a lapsed insurance condition and a council bill waiting to happen, and none of those is your sales advisor’s job.
- A visit every week while the home is on the market, with a dated note and photographs you can show your insurer.
- Heating held at a frost setting through the winter, the stopcock located on day one, and the water drained down if you ask us to.
- Meter readings at the keys and at settlement, and the suppliers told who is responsible between the two.
- The council's position on an unoccupied home confirmed in writing, and the exemption or discount claimed where the home qualifies for one.
- Keys held in our office and signed out to every trade, viewer and surveyor, so you always know where they are.
- Your insurer's unoccupied-property conditions read on day one and kept, including the visit interval most policies set.
Around the plot
Your team sells the plot. We carry what stands in its way.
A plot sale stays with your sales suite. What slows it down is usually something else: a buyer with a home to sell, a buyer you have not met yet, or an investor who will not reserve without a rental figure. Those are ours.
Assisted move
Your buyer's own home, sold by us so they can reserve yours without a part-exchange on your books. The fee is paid on whichever of our three published routes you choose, so it can be settled at launch on the Home Report valuation or come out of the proceeds when their sale settles. Your sales advisor hears from us the day interest is noted and the day missives conclude, so the reservation is chased against facts rather than hope.
Buyer introductions
A buyer registered with us whose search your development answers is introduced to your sales team by name, with their position stated: what they are selling, whether a mortgage is agreed, and whether they are chain-free. The introduction fee is agreed in writing, per development, before the first name is passed, and nothing is due on a buyer you were already talking to.
The investor's numbers
A buyer who is investing gets a written rental appraisal of the plot before they reserve: the achievable rent, the running costs, and the net figure after our published fee, which is 10% of rent collected for Let & Rent Collection or 12% for Full Management. We let and manage the home after settlement, so the appraisal is a figure we then have to deliver, not a brochure line.
Unsold plots and show homes
A completed home that is not selling can earn its keep instead of carrying a discount. We let it on the same published schedule as any landlord's home, manage the tenancy, and bring it back to the market when you choose, within the terms of the tenancy.
Scotland, and what we need from you
Four things that decide how fast an empty home moves
Scotland sells homes differently: the survey comes first, offers arrive through solicitors, and the deal binds weeks before the keys move. The dates above hold when these four are in place on day one.
The Home Report
Every home marketed in Scotland needs one, no more than 12 weeks old at launch (Housing (Scotland) Act 2006). The report your part-exchange valuer used is usually in your file; if it is older, we instruct the surveyor on day one so it does not hold up day five.
Your solicitor
Offers arrive through solicitors and the missives bind weeks before the keys move. We work to whichever firm handles your conveyancing, and we would like their name and a contact before launch so the first offer is not the first conversation.
The keys, and a name
Two sets of keys, the alarm code, and one person on your side who can say yes to a price or a viewing time within the day. Most of the time lost on an empty home is lost waiting for an answer.
Terms of business, in writing
One agreement per home, before anything starts: the route you chose, the rate on this page, and how either side ends it. There is no tie-in and no minimum term. The identity check the law requires is done once, at instruction, at the published £70 for each person we are required to verify, and we pay for your buyer's.
Start with one home
One part-exchange home, measured against your own numbers
Give us one home you are holding now. We send you the plan for it in writing within two working days: the price position, the launch date, what the Monday report will show, and the fee as one figure. Then measure us on it.
Your developments may already be on our directory. We keep a page for every housebuilder named on a new build site across Edinburgh and the Lothians, 33 of them verified against their own websites, so buyers reading about a development here find yours. See the directory.
Tell us about the home
The address, where it stands today, and who to send the plan to. We reply within one working day.
A date for launch, a figure for the fee, and a report every Monday.
That is the whole offer, and it is the same whether you hold one part-exchange home or a dozen.