Tools for selling your home
Calculators and checkers built on published, dated figures, with the working shown.
How the tools work
The House Desk's tools combine your own figures with published, dated ones, and show where each published figure comes from. Sold prices come from HM Land Registry's price paid records for England and Wales.1 None of the tools needs a sign-up, and what the sold prices search sends is set out in the privacy notice.
What your home could sell for, and what you keep
Start with the cash offer calculator to see what each route would leave on recorded sales near you, then put your own quotes into the cost of selling and agent fee calculators.
- Cash offer calculatorRecorded sales of similar homes near you, run through each route to show what you would keep.
- Sold prices near youSale prices around your postcode, as HM Land Registry recorded them.
- Cost of selling calculatorYour sale price, less every selling cost and the mortgage, from your own quotes.
- Estate agent fees calculatorA percentage or fixed fee on your price, with and without VAT.
Choosing how to sell
The route finder comes first if you have not chosen a route yet. If a house-buying company has already made you an offer, use the cash offer checker.
- Route finderAnswer three questions about your sale and see which route suits it, with the reasons.
- Your price through each routeOne price, taken through an agent sale, an auction and a house-buying company.
- Cash offer checkerWhere an offer from a house-buying company sits against the published figures.
Timing and problems
When a fixed date is driving the sale, begin with the timeline planner. If the house is listed and not selling, start with the not-selling check.
- Sale timeline plannerWork back from the date you want to complete to the latest date to list.
- Why is my house not selling?Find the stage your sale is stuck at and what to check first.
- Agent tie-in and notice checkerWhen you can switch agent, and how long the old agent can claim a fee.
- Probate to sale plannerThe dates for an inherited house: grant waits and tax deadlines.
Find the route that fits you
Three questions, about 30 seconds. Your answers stay in your browser.
Question 1 of 3
Your best fit
What you give up:
Why this route
Close second: Property auction.
Selling in Scotland works differently, with a Home Report and offers over a closing date. The guides note where Scottish rules differ.
Get help with your sale
Leave your details and tell us how you would like to sell.
While you wait, the guide covers what to check before you agree to anything.
Sources
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