Four to six homes at a time
Stone Parlor handles residential sales across Ellerby Hill, Marsden Quay, Tarn Row and Hollowfield Green. One agent runs your sale start to finish — the same person who valued the house takes the viewings and the awkward phone calls.
Currently for sale
Every entry lists tenure, floor area and the thing you would otherwise find out on the second viewing. Guide prices are what we expect offers to land near, not a ceiling or a reserve.
Freehold · Chain-free
A 1930s stone villa that has had one careful owner since 1998. South-facing walled garden, original parquet under the hall carpet. The loft is boarded but not converted, and the boiler is due for replacement inside two years.
Leasehold · 122 years remaining
Second-floor warehouse conversion with a lift and secure bike store. Service charge is billed quarterly and covers the river frontage maintenance. Sound carries between the mezzanine bedrooms — worth hearing for yourself before you offer.
Freehold · Priced for the work
Handsome shell, tired inside. The kitchen and the family bathroom both need replacing, and the rear render has a damp patch that a surveyor will pick up. We have priced it knowing all of that, so we will not be renegotiating over it later.
Freehold · Conservation area
A two-bedroom cottage on the green with a long, narrow garden and a useful brick outbuilding. Single-glazed sash windows are original and consent rules limit what can replace them, which is the main reason the EPC sits where it does.
Selling with us
Five stages, with the parts most people are not warned about written down in advance.
We measure every room, look in the loft and ask what has been replaced and when. Nothing is photographed and nothing is advertised until you have agreed a number and a plan.About 90 minutes
We set one asking price we can defend, not an optimistic figure followed by a reduction six weeks later. Photography and floor plans are booked for a specific launch day, usually a Thursday.Five to ten days from instruction
Every viewing is accompanied by the agent who valued the house, in blocks rather than scattered through the week, so you are not tidying up every evening.Thursday evenings and Saturday mornings
Offers are put to you in writing with the buyer's position attached: deposit source, mortgage stage, whether they have a property to sell and how far along that sale is.Within 24 hours of each offer
The quiet, frustrating stretch. We chase searches, surveys and the chain weekly and send you a short written update whether or not anything has moved.Typically eight to twelve weeks
Field notes
Practical detail that changes offers: parking, searches, works and the things that vary street by street rather than postcode by postcode.
Large stone houses on wide plots, sold slowly and rarely twice in a decade.
Warehouse conversions and newer flats along the water, mostly leasehold.
Victorian terraces and coach houses, popular with first upsizers.
Cottages and small semis around the green, much of it a conservation area.
Before you instruct anyone
Worth reading whether or not you instruct us. Any agent should be able to give you a version of this list.
Questions worth asking
A single percentage of the agreed sale price, payable on completion rather than on instruction. It includes photography, floor plans, particulars, all viewings and the chasing work after an offer. There is no separate withdrawal fee and no charge for a valuation that does not lead to an instruction.
It depends on how tight your area's supply is. If very little comes up, market first so you can move quickly when it does — being sold subject to contract makes your offer far stronger. If you would struggle to find anywhere, we can launch quietly to a shortlist of registered buyers instead of going live everywhere at once.
We work on sole agency because we can only run a handful of sales properly at once. The initial term is twelve weeks, after which you can end it with two weeks' written notice. We would rather you left than stayed on a sale we were not moving.
We read the report before responding. Some findings are ordinary for a house of that age and were already reflected in the price; some are genuinely new and justify a renegotiation. We will tell you plainly which is which and get a quote for the work before anyone talks about reducing.
Before we recommend accepting, we ask for evidence of the deposit source, a mortgage agreement in principle with a lender named, and details of any property they need to sell, including which stage that sale has reached and who is handling it.
No. A guide price is where we expect offers to land, based on recent comparable sales. It is not a minimum we are contractually bound to hold, and it is not a ceiling. You are free to consider anything offered, and we will always tell you how an offer compares with the guide.
Yes. Circumstances change, and a sale that has to happen is a sale that gets bought cheaply. Tell us and we withdraw it the same day, with no fee due. If you come back later, your photography and floor plans are still yours to use.
Get in touch
Tell us roughly what you are after and we will reply with either an appointment time or an honest reason why we are not the right practice for it.
We would rather turn a house down than take it on and leave it sitting at the wrong price for three months.