Holding

The time the building is ours.

A holding is a property the company has already bought and has not yet sold. It sits in our name until we decide the sale should start.

What goes in the note

On the day the purchase completes, we write a short note. It is for our own file, and later for a buyer.

  1. 01The full address and whether it is a house or a flat.
  2. 02How many rooms, and which rooms were seen.
  3. 03Anything obvious: a new kitchen, a tired bathroom, an empty house.
A grey tiled bathroom with a white bath, a wood slat wall, and a window with blinds
A bathroom is one of the rooms written into the note.

Condition, in plain words

We do not dress the note up. If the kitchen is new, we say the kitchen is new. If a room needs work, we say that too. A buyer should be able to read the note and know what they will walk into.

Seen

Only rooms we have actually walked through are described.

Not guessed

We do not invent a loft conversion or a garden we have not stood in.

Pale wood kitchen cabinets and a long stone island facing garden doors
A kitchen recorded as it was on the day of the note.

While it is not for sale

Most of the time a holding is not on offer. We are not obliged to show it, and we do not publish a list of everything we own.

If you write with an area and a type of building, we answer only when one holding matches. Silence means we do not have one to sell.

From holding to sale

When we choose to sell, the same note is the starting point. The price is ours. A viewing is arranged by email for that address only.

Solicitors then transfer the title out of the company. After completion it is no longer a holding, and the note is closed.

A holding is not a let

Living in the building, or paying rent for it, is not how this works. The company owns the property outright until a buyer completes. We do not grant a tenancy from this page.

If you want to buy a holding we are ready to sell, use the contact form and name the area.

Ask about one address

If you are selling to us, the holding does not exist yet. It starts only after we complete the purchase. Send the address you want us to buy, and we will say yes or no.

Send the address
Grey shingle house with a white columned porch and a lawn
The outside is part of the same short note.