Your Local Estate Agents in Horwich

98% of prospective buyers search for properties online from the comfort of their own home and mobile phone. For this reason your property advert will be published on Rightmove and our website. We feel Rightmove is the main property portal in the UK and will give you the best exposure to buyers. We also utilise social media to advertise properties as a large audience of accidental buyers will come across properties that might get them to consider moving. (Accidental buyer, is a buyer that wasn’t actively looking for a property but is enticed upon seeing a property that suddenly takes their interest)

We rely mostly on recommendations which will only come from doing an excellent job with previous clients. We are not a business that relies on volumes of properties to come to the market, as our model is to look after you from start to finish and give you the time needed to sell your home. Furthermore unlike some of the online estate agents that are charging you a fee regardless of whether you sell or you don’t, you won’t pay our marketing fee until you have completed. 

When booking a valuation, you can request a date and the time of day you’d like the valuation to be carried out. When we ring you to book the valuation, we will try to adhere to the timescales however sometimes it might not be possible. We leave a 2 and a half hour gap for each valuation, to allow us to spend time with you on the valuation and if you decide there and then you’d like us to prepare your advert, this gives us the time to do so and not let the next client down by being late.

Absolutely, before any viewer is booked to view your home we will carry out the following.

• Actually speak to the viewer before they view your home to establish how serious they are and establish is the house right for them? Does it have enough bedrooms etc, this sounds ludicrous as you have a description that tells people exactly what your house entails, unfortunately some people don’t read them. So it’s best to double check.
• Check they have got a mortgage in place or at least sought advice, some mortgage advisors won’t produce agreement in principles until an offer has been accepted on a property but from getting to understand their clients, they will know how much they can afford. However if they haven’t sought advice at least, we won’t allow buyers to view, as we cannot confirm they can actually afford to buy your home.
• If they’re purchasing with cash, where is the cash coming from? Have they sold their property?
  • If they haven’t sold their property or they don’t even have their property on the market, we wouldn’t deter them from viewing. Some people feel like these viewers are a waste of time, however they could like your property, put their home on the market and sell within days meaning they can then buy yours, which has happened plenty of times and completed successfully.
• We will then get from them
  • Current Address
  • Telephone numbers
  • Email Address

Yes we’re local – we live and operate in Bolton. Roe & Co is a family run business with Kate Roe looking after the sales side and Stephen Roe looking after the lettings side. We also have a small but excellent team who do a fantastic job on the sales side.

We decided not to have a high street shop because after working in a high street Estate Agency for several years and seeing less and less people coming to visit, the shop became redundant and was no longer a window to advertise properties in. After all, buyers are now finding their new home by searching the internet from home, work, even on holiday! 

We have an office in Bolton should you need to visit us.