Sellers · Personal assessment How this works
What could your property achieve?
Start with the property address. Build a clear brief for Dukes to review personally, including the likely sale route and practical next step.
Type the address or postcode. You can write it out in full.
Add the property address or postcode.
- Reviewed personally
- No automatic estimate
- Nothing is sent until you choose
What happens next
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Tell us about the property
Add the core details and what matters most to you.
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Review your summary
Check every answer before anything leaves this browser.
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Choose how to send it
Email or WhatsApp Dukes, or copy the summary yourself.
What Dukes considers
The assessment looks at the property itself and at what you need from the sale. The more of this you can give, the firmer the view Dukes can offer.
What your assessment can clarify
- Which sale route appears worth discussing
- Which property details or evidence need confirming
- The most useful practical next conversation
Call, message or email Dukes with the details below — a person reads every route.
The property
- Address and postcode
- Property type
- Bedrooms
Property details
- Tenure
- Approximate size, if known
- Condition
- Occupancy
- EPC status
What matters to you
- What matters most
- Intended timescale
- Important improvements or known issues
Contact and review
- Your name
- Preferred contact method
- Email address
- Telephone number
Your property brief is ready
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Your details leave this browser only when you choose Email or WhatsApp below, or copy the summary yourself. Copying makes a local copy and tells Dukes nothing.
You asked Dukes to telephone you. There is no call booking on this page, so send the brief by email or WhatsApp, or call the office directly on 01753 905679.
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Your property brief so far
Your property is more than a postcode
Automatic estimates can provide a starting point, but they cannot fully understand condition, improvements, occupancy, tenure or what you need from the sale. Dukes reviews the information you choose to provide and gives you a personal view of the likely route and next practical step.
What a personal reading weighs
Condition
Two identical floorplans can sit far apart once condition is priced in. Honest condition information — the boiler's age, the roof, what needs work — lets an assessment start from the property you actually have, not the one the street average assumes.
Improvements
An extension, a loft conversion or a new kitchen changes what a buyer is comparing. Works with planning permission and building-regulations certificates behind them carry more weight than works without the paperwork.
Tenure
Freehold and leasehold are different sales. A lease's remaining term, ground rent and service charges shape both the likely buyer and the legal work, so tenure belongs in any careful view of the sale.
Occupancy
An owner-occupied home, a tenanted property and a vacant one each suit different buyers and different timetables. A tenancy in place matters to an investor and to the legal work alike.
Size and layout
An approximate floor area helps set context, but layout does the persuading: the same square footage can live very differently. That is why the size question is optional and never treated as the whole answer.
Local demand
Streets do not move as one market. Who is actually buying nearby — families, first-time buyers, investors — changes which sale route deserves the first conversation.
Comparable evidence
What genuinely similar properties have recently achieved is evidence; a hopeful asking price is not. Like-for-like sales deserve more weight than headline listings.
Your priorities
The same property answers differently depending on what the sale must protect — price, timetable or simplicity. That is why this page asks what matters most before any route is suggested.
Two routes, matched terms
The assessment helps you choose between these. Neither is universally better; the right one follows from what the sale must protect.
The highlighted row is the one your chosen priority most affects.
| Term | Open-market sale | Direct investor introduction |
|---|---|---|
| Exposure | Public marketing and viewings. | No public marketing — the property is introduced to investors who buy directly. |
| Potential price | Aimed at the best price the market will pay. | An offer, if one comes, is normally below potential open-market value. |
| Likely pace | Set by demand, the buyer's chain and the legal work — no honest figure can be promised. | Fewer marketing steps. Where the property, the title and a buyer are all ready, completion may be targeted within approximately 28 days — a target, not a guarantee. |
| Moving parts | Marketing, viewings, negotiation — and often a chain. | Fewer steps, but the same legal work, and a buyer must still actually be found. |
| Appropriate when | The highest achievable price leads and the timetable can flex. | A controlled timetable or simplicity genuinely matters more than the final figure. |
| The trade-off | More moving parts and a less predictable timetable. | Speed and simplicity are priced in: the figure is normally below potential open-market value. |
On either route, an offer is not legally binding in England and Wales until contracts are exchanged — and neither a buyer, an acceptable offer nor a completion date can be guaranteed.
Dukes currently provides the direct investor introduction. Dukes introduces the property and is not the buyer.
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Straight answers
Six questions sellers sensibly ask before starting, answered plainly.
Is this a formal RICS valuation?
No. It is an estate-agency assessment — a personal view of the likely sale route and next practical step. A formal valuation is a different document, produced by a qualified (RICS) valuer, usually for a lender, tax or legal purpose.
Does preparing the brief commit me to selling?
No. Building and reviewing the brief sends nothing and commits you to nothing. Nothing leaves this page until you choose Email or WhatsApp — and even a sent brief is a request for a personal view, not an instruction to sell.
Is this an automatic estimate?
No. No monetary figure is calculated or displayed on this page. A person reads what you choose to send and replies with a personal view — which is why condition, improvements and your priorities are asked for at all.
What is the direct-investor trade-off?
Speed and simplicity are priced in. A direct investor offer is normally below potential open-market value, and it depends on property review and genuine investor interest. Neither a buyer, an acceptable offer nor completion within any timescale can be guaranteed.
What information should I prepare?
The address, property type and bedrooms start the brief. Tenure, approximate size, condition, occupancy and EPC status firm it up — and anything a careful buyer would ask about, such as extensions, a new roof or boiler, damp or structural questions, is worth noting early.
When does my information leave this browser?
Only when you choose. Your answers live in the form on this page and nowhere else — no storage, no background requests. Email and WhatsApp open a message you can still read and cancel; Copy makes a local copy and tells Dukes nothing. Reloading the page clears everything.
Important information about your assessment
Seven points fix what the assessment can and cannot promise you. The three that matter most are here; open the panel for the full set.
- This is an estate-agency assessment, not a formal valuation by a qualified (RICS) valuer.
- It is not a guaranteed sale price, and it is not an investor offer.
- An offer through the investor route is normally below potential open-market value.
Read the full assessment terms
- An investor offer can only follow review of the property and actual investor interest.
- Dukes works with investors who buy directly and can introduce suitable properties to them.
- Approximately 28 days is a target only when the property, the title and a buyer are all ready.
- Neither buyer availability, an acceptable offer nor completion within 28 days can be guaranteed.
Take your time. The brief stays on this page, and nothing is sent until you choose.
