Your London Team
An Independent Approach
We are on your side. Therefore we tell it like it is, not just what the vendor or sales agent wants you to hear, and we speak up if your head is turned by a property on which we think you should pass. This approach is valuable for all buyers, but is particularly important for overseas buyers who may not have bought in the UK before. As they could be unfamiliar with the nuances of buying here, it’s important they have someone supporting them who has successfully navigated the London market for years.
Bespoke Service
We take the time to really listen to you and understand the type of property for which you’re searching, and why.
We probe for things that you may not have considered and create a bespoke strategy to suit your needs exactly. This insight translates into a tight brief from which we work, ensuring a straightforward, efficient and effective search.
We often help clients who are time-poor, such as busy families or those based abroad. Importantly, we help clients requiring property at all market levels. With us as a filter and supporting them at every step of the way, finding a new home is made easier and more pleasurable.
Your London Life
Understanding what you hope to gain from living in London is vital, so we can ensure you have good access to what’s important to you, be it schools, parks, art and culture, access to the West End, airports or your children’s social life.
Over the decades we’ve got to know the intricacies of the most desirable London locations as well as less desirable aspects of seemingly attractive spots. As your buying agent, we have these insights so we can focus on finding exactly the right area for you.
Painstaking Search
We have the contacts and knowledge to find your perfect property. We are the filter to avoid you wasting your time and energy, and can show you off-market properties, to which you normally wouldn’t have access.
Rest assured, you receive total market coverage whether you are searching in London for a Knightsbridge apartment, family house or pied-a-terre. You may be surprised to know that typically, 95% of what we see we advise a client not to buy.
Meticulous Due Diligence
The team at Haringtons can thoroughly scrutinise the property, so you know just what you’re buying.
We have developed a due diligence framework to analyse strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and environmental and planning threats. There may be a survey and a solicitor’s report on title, but we fill all the gaps, so there are no surprises. We look beyond the obvious.
You receive a written report that will cover diverse issues such as relevant local planning applications, comparable sales evidence and background to the area.
We also put objectivity behind the value of the property using our years of experience, up-to-date insight and backed up by comparable evidence.
Finally, we can introduce you to a highly-respected professional team to ensure the purchase and any future work runs smoothly. This group can include lawyers, surveyors, planning consultants, architects etc. with Haringtons acting as the interface, ensuring everyone works well together.
Skilled Negotiation
As the selling agent works solely for the vendor, you need a team working just for you. Having found you the very best property and then secure it for you on the most favourable terms.
While we’re aware many of our clients are skilled negotiators, often it is this part of our service that they find most valuable. We are familiar with all the particular potential pitfalls within a property purchase, and avoid the situation whereby the negotiations reach an insoluble impasse over a small detail. We give you a balanced overview of the deal and steer you away from getting bogged down in minutiae.
We ensure that the vendor sees you as the best-qualified and preferred buyer, maintaining a good relationship throughout the process.
Continuous Support
We always attend a property on or just before the day of completion, something that many other buying agents don’t do. We can check that everything is in order and if there have been inclusions in the deal such as carpets, curtains etc. we make sure that they’ve remained in place. Only once we are happy do we instruct the solicitors to release the completion money.
This attention to detail is important to us, as once you are our client, ensuring that every single part of your property purchase is perfect from beginning to end is central to our personal, independent service.
Total Transparency
We have the contacts and knowledge to find your perfect property. We are the filter to avoid you wasting your time and energy, and can show you off-market properties, to which you normally wouldn’t have access.
Rest assured, you receive total market coverage whether you are searching in London for a Knightsbridge apartment, family house or pied-a-terre. You may be surprised to know that typically, 95% of what we see we advise a client not to buy.
Rental Search in London
Finding a property to rent in London is rarely straightforward. Haringtons can find you a property to rent in London following the same approach as we use for our buying service.