Selling Your Home With Stowhill Estates Buckinghamshire
Selling a home for a million pounds and above is not a process that benefits from being one of forty listings in a high street window. It needs careful, deliberate work from someone who actually knows your market, your buyers, and your particular property.
That is what Stowhill Estates Buckinghamshire is built to do. We take on a small number of homes at a time so each one gets proper attention, market each property with care, and stay personally involved from the first valuation through to the day the keys change hands. The number of properties we have on at any moment is intentionally low. The detail we put into each one is the reason it works.
- We work across Marlow, Henley-on-Thames, Beaconsfield, Gerrards Cross, and the villages around them
- We deliberately keep a small number of properties on our books so each gets full marketing attention
- Our average sale is 100.2% of asking price
- We handle every sales progression personally, end to end
- Our valuation appointments are free, take around 90 minutes, and come with no obligation
How We Approach a Sale
The first thing that happens after you instruct us is that one of us, usually both, comes to your home for a longer than usual visit. Not to take measurements (we will, but later) and not to talk through paperwork (also later). We come to spend an hour walking through the house with you, listening to the parts you remember, the parts you wished you had changed, the way the morning light comes in through the kitchen windows. The kind of detail no estate agent template can ever capture.
This visit is what shapes the marketing. The photography, the video, the lifestyle copy, the way we talk to potential buyers, the events we host: all of it draws on what we learn during that hour. Most properties we sell are properties someone has lived in carefully for ten or twenty years, and the difference between a generic listing and one that captures what makes the place special is often the difference between a sale at full asking and a sale that quietly stalls.
Frequently asked questions
How long does it take to sell a house in Marlow with Stowhill Estates?
Most premium homes we take to market complete within 12 to 16 weeks. That is the full round trip from instruction to completion, not just to offer accepted. The exact timeline depends on the price band, the property type, and the state of the buyer pool at the time, and we will give you our honest read on all three at the valuation. Where a sale takes longer, it is usually because the property is genuinely unusual and we are holding out for the right buyer rather than the first one through the door.
What does it cost to sell a house with Stowhill Estates?
We charge a commission of 1.75% plus VAT, payable only on successful completion. At the point of instruction there is a refundable payment on account that covers the upfront marketing costs of getting your property to market: photography, video, brochure design, and floor plans. That payment is returned to you in full when the sale completes, so on a successful sale your only cost is the commission. We are transparent about both figures on the first visit, and there are no hidden add-ons or surprises later.
How is Stowhill Estates different from a high street agent like Hamptons or Savills?
Two main things. We deliberately take on a small number of properties at a time so each one gets the full attention of the same two people from valuation through to completion, rather than being one of forty listings handed between teams. And we personally handle every sales progression ourselves, calling buyers, sellers, solicitors, and surveyors on a regular schedule. About half of UK properties listed for sale do not complete after they go under offer, and that statistic is largely about poor sales progression at volume agencies. We work very hard not to be in it.
How do you decide what asking price to set?
We give you our honest view of what your property is worth on the first visit, drawing on recent comparable sales in your specific street or postcode and the current activity in your price band. We do not over-quote to win the instruction and then come back asking for a reduction once the listing has gone stale, because that approach costs sellers the most valuable weeks of any campaign. We agree the asking price together once you have committed to working with us, and we also price within Rightmove search brackets to maximise visibility from day one.
What happens after I accept an offer?
This is the part that goes wrong most often in our industry, and it is where Stowhill Estates Buckinghamshire is genuinely different. We take over personally as soon as an offer is accepted, calling the buyer, the seller, both solicitors, the surveyor, and everyone else in the chain on a regular schedule. We flag problems before they become deal breakers, manage the timeline, and give you proactive updates rather than waiting for you to ask. The result is that our completion rate sits well above the national average, and the homes we accept offers on are the homes we actually sell.
What if my house has been on the market with another agent and hasn’t sold?
It happens more often than people realise. The issue is rarely the property itself; it is usually the marketing, the photography, the asking price, or the buyer pool the previous agent has been showing it to. Send us a message and we will come and see the property, review what has been done so far, and give you an honest view on why it has stalled and what we would do differently. Some of our most successful sales are properties we have taken on after another agent has failed to sell them.
Do you sell properties off-market?
Yes, where it makes sense for the seller. Off-market sales work well for owners who value privacy, or where a property is unique enough that a small, curated buyer audience will outperform a public launch. We maintain a register of known active buyers and can place a property in front of the right people without ever listing it publicly. If you are considering this route, the conversation should happen early, ideally before you commit to a public launch.
How quickly can you start marketing my property after I instruct you?
Usually about two weeks from the day you instruct us. That time goes into the photography, the video, the brochure copy, the floor plans, and getting the EPC sorted if you do not already have one in date. We will not rush a property to market with rushed photography, because the first three weeks of any listing are the most valuable, and you only get one chance to launch well. If you have a hard timeline (a relocation, school deadlines, completing on a forward purchase), tell us at the valuation and we will work backwards from it.