Direct investor sale
Sell your property
A direct route when timing matters.
Dukes can introduce suitable properties to investor buyers. Any offer is normally below potential open-market value.
Discuss a direct sale Compare the two routes
Investor availability, an acceptable offer and a completion date cannot be guaranteed.
Three truths before you choose
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Dukes introduces
Dukes may introduce the property to suitable investor buyers. Dukes remains the introducer, not the buyer or purchaser.
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The price trade-off
A direct offer is normally below potential open-market value.
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The decision stays yours
You decide whether to accept. Nothing is binding before exchange; fees and terms are confirmed in writing first.
Choose the route that matches the priority
The direct route may shorten the path, but normally trades away potential open-market value.
Price
May offer a higher achievable price
Offer normally below potential open-market value
Timing
Normally takes longer and timing may be less predictable
Only where the property, title and an investor are ready — a target, never a promise.
How the buyer is found
Usually allows wider marketing and price competition
Dukes may introduce the property to suitable investor buyers.
Certainty
Nothing is binding before exchange.
No guarantee of investor, offer or completion date
Expected timescale Where the property, title and an investor are ready, completion may be targeted within approximately 28 days — a target rather than a guarantee.
Legal checks, the property, the agreed terms and the buyer's position can all affect timing. No guarantee of investor, offer or completion date.
Neither route is universally better. If the highest achievable price matters more than the timescale, a conventional open-market sale is the better fit — and Dukes will say so.
The direct-sale journey
From the property brief to your decision and your own solicitor. Five stages, in order.
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Share the address, condition and why timing matters.
Tell Dukes about the property
- Who decides here
- Nothing is sent until you choose to send it.
- What is binding
- Nothing is binding before exchange.
- What is not guaranteed
- Investor availability, an acceptable offer and a completion date cannot be guaranteed.
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Dukes considers whether the property may suit the direct route.
Dukes reviews the situation
- Who decides here
- Dukes considers whether the property may suit the direct route.
- What is binding
- Nothing is binding before exchange.
- What is not guaranteed
- Where any one condition is missing, the direct route may simply not be available.
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If suitable, Dukes may introduce it to investor buyers. Dukes is not the purchaser.
Suitable investors may be approached
- Who decides here
- Dukes introduces investor buyers. Dukes is not the purchaser.
- What is binding
- Nothing is binding before exchange.
- What is not guaranteed
- No guarantee of investor, offer or completion date.
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Any offer is yours to accept or decline. Nothing is binding before exchange.
Any offer is passed to the owner
- Who decides here
- Any offer is yours to accept or decline.
- What is binding
- Nothing is binding before exchange.
- What is not guaranteed
- A direct offer is normally below potential open-market value.
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If accepted, your own solicitor or licensed conveyancer handles the legal sale.
Your solicitor handles the sale
- Who decides here
- Your own solicitor or licensed conveyancer handles the legal sale.
- What is binding
- Nothing is binding before exchange; fees and terms are confirmed in writing first.
- What is not guaranteed
- Legal checks, the property, the agreed terms and the buyer's position can all affect timing.
A considered assessment, not an instant promise
Dukes first needs enough information to understand the property, its condition and the reason timing matters. The team can then consider whether the direct route may be suitable. An investor, acceptable offer and completion date cannot be guaranteed.
What needs to line up
None of these is a formality, and none of them is guaranteed. Where any one is missing, the direct route may simply not be available.
- Property condition & history The property's condition and any relevant history
- Title & tenure position Title and tenure position, confirmed with your conveyancer
- Investor availability A suitable investor being available to consider it
- Legal adviser Your own solicitor or licensed conveyancer, ready to instruct
Your decision. Your legal adviser.
Dukes can introduce the opportunity and pass on an offer. The owner decides whether to accept, and the owner's own solicitor or licensed conveyancer handles the legal sale. Nothing is binding before exchange.
Practical questions
Role Is Dukes buying my property?
No. Dukes introduces suitable properties to investor buyers. Dukes is the introducer, not the buyer or purchaser.
Price Will I receive the open-market value?
Normally not. A direct offer is normally below potential open-market value — that is the trade for a more direct route.
Timescale Is approximately 28 days guaranteed?
No. Where the property, title and an investor are ready, completion may be targeted within approximately 28 days. That is a target, not a guarantee, and neither an investor, an offer nor a completion date can be guaranteed.
Legal Who handles the legal work?
Your own solicitor or licensed conveyancer handles the legal sale. Dukes can introduce the opportunity and pass on an offer; the decision and the legal process stay with you and your adviser.
Fees When do fees and terms become clear?
Fees and terms are confirmed to you in writing before you commit to anything.
Ready to talk it through?
Tell Dukes about the property and what matters most, then find out whether the direct route may suit it. Nothing is sent until you choose to send it.
No investor, offer or completion date can be guaranteed, and any offer is normally below potential open-market value. Fees and terms are confirmed in writing before you commit to anything.
Discuss a direct saleUseful next steps
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Request a sales valuation
A personal assessment of the likely route and next steps — not a formal valuation or an offer.
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Read the Seller's Guide
Decide what matters most, compare the two kinds of sale, and prepare properly.
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See the landlord services
Letting and management, for owners who would rather keep the property than sell it.
