What we offer
It is often stated that selling your house is the most stressful thing you’ll do in life, but it doesn’t have to be. With the
right agent guiding you every step of the way it can be a seamless process that ensures the right result for you.
Expert advice for all your needs
Over 150 yrs combined experience
Improve property appeal
3d floor plans and decluttering
Showing dimensions and space
Maximise your property’s potential
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Our Sales process
- 1Accurate Valuations
- 2Selecting the right agent
- 3Instructing a good solicitor
- 4Ensuring all legals are in place
- 5Preparing your property for sale
- 6Marketing the property
- 7Viewing by appointment
- 8Offers
- 9Going ‘Sale Agreed’
- 10Exchanging contracts
- 11Closing
Accurate Valuations
Finding the right price to come to market gives you the best possible chance of achieving the strongest price in the right timeframe. Overprice your property and you can be on the market for months. Underprice it, and you may struggle to achieve a strong price. We did over a thousand valuations last year so we know the value of property, which allows us to best advise you on the right price to come to the market.
Selecting the right agent
Ensure you select an agent that will be with you 100% of the way. Selling is about assessing the pros and cons of every property to ensure you can answer any question. You don’t want junior staff conducting your viewings, with no answers, and little experience of how to tailor responses to suit each property.
Instructing a good solicitor
An integral part of each sale is the conveyance process. An unproportionate amount of sales collapse due to poor communication and preparation. A good solicitor will help ensure a smooth and efficient sale.
Ensuring all legals are in place
Do a complete check on title deeds, planning permissions, leasehold information or anything else you can think of that may hold up a sale down the line. By having all of these in place you can ensure that there are no impediments to your sale progressing.
Preparing your property for sale
While it may sound like an obvious statement, people buy with their eyes. Therefore, presentation is so crucial when coming to the market. First impressions really are important, so externally, try to ensure you have a tidy, weed-free environment. Internally, de-clutter, address any signs of condensation throughout the house, and consider a fresh coat of paint if the property needs it. We pride ourselves on our carefully scripted adverts, and have an excellent team of photographers, that ensure each property is presented to the best of it’s potential, while detailed floor plans, videos, drone shots, and VR tours allows prospective purchasers to get a real feel of a property before they ever set foot inside.
Or we can arrange to have your property staged. The reality is a staged property can achieve in excess of 15% more than a vacant one.
Viewing by appointment
Viewings are an opportunity for us to not only sell the benefits of a property and its location, but also for us to get to know the potential buyers. Selecting the right buyer gives you the best chance of a successful sale. Therefore, our preference is for private viewings to allow the viewers time to get a real feel for the property, while allowing us to get a feel for them. We view properties morning, afternoon and evening, 6 days a week to ensure we get every potential buyer through the door.
Offers
Each vendor, and their property, are unique, so we work hard get the right offers for you. We ensure all offers are in writing, and make sure we understand the position of each potential purchaser to ensure they are suitable for the circumstances. We then update you after each viewing, so you know how the sale is progressing at all times.
Going ‘Sale Agreed’
Once we agree the buyer with you, we issue out the booking deposit request to the purchaser that highlights the next steps. When the deposit hits our account, we write to both solicitors providing the required information for them to conduct the conveyancing. If surveys and/or bank valuations are required, we make sure these are done promptly to ensure a smooth process. Most importantly, we ensure regular communication with the purchasers to assist the sale along in a timely process. All conducted by the same agent who assisted you from day one.
Exchanging contracts
When the solicitors have finalised and agreed all the contact details, then it is time to sign and exchange the contracts. Once this is completed, the solicitors will agree a closing date.
Closing
On the agreed date, and once the purchaser’s solicitor has conducted the final searches, they will arrange the transfer of the balance of funds to your solicitor, and we will get a call to release the keys. Then the sale will be completed.
Staging service & house clearance
People buy with their eyes, and a Zoopla survey in the UK found viewers focus more on artwork and furniture than structural features. To capitalize on this, we stage properties before listing them, often achieving a 10-15% increase in sale price. We work with skilled interior designers experienced across various property types and have an in-house maintenance team to handle pre-sale clearance and repairs.
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What our customers
say about us
We bought a house through Mason Estate Agents and dealt with Ryan O’Shaughnessy throughout. It was a very positive experience. He was easy to deal with from the word go which made the process so much more manageable. What we appreciated most was his transparency. He was upfront about house details, so there were no surprises along the way. Any issues that cropped up, Ryan was quick to respond and help out with. Communication was clear and consistent throughout the entire negotiation and closing. We would recommend Ryan to anyone looking for a professional and reliable agent.
Sarah and Albie
Working with Mason Estates was an excellent experience from start to finish. Ryan was great to work with. He was always responsive, easy to reach, and willing to answer any questions we had along the way. The level of communication made the whole buying process go very smoothly.
It’s clear that the team genuinely cares about providing a great service, even when there was some additional complications which required an office visit they were very accommodating.
Overall, it was a very positive experience. I would recommend Mason Estates, and Ryan in particular, to anyone looking for a professional, reliable, and friendly team to work with.
Sean and Ryan of Mason Estates were very professional, sensitive and helpful in selling our family home. Would highly recommend
I have used Masons twice to sell a home in the last 6 years. The service remains excellent in terms of communication, service and lengths they go to on behalf of clients
We have used Mason Estates regularly over the years for both formal and informal valuations, as well as engaging them for the sale of our house more recently. Both Sean and Ryan are consummate professionals and a pleasure the deal with. Communication is seamless and you are never left wanting in terms of next steps or where you stand in the process. Huge thanks to the team, keep doing what you’re doing.
What a fantastic Estate Agent!! Ryan O’ Shaughnessy was amazing! From his incredible advice to the constant up dates and reassurances. He gave 150% to ensuring we got the best sale price.
I cannot recommended him more highly!! Thank you Ryan!
Just completed the sale of our late parents house. Mason Estates and especially Ryan O’Shaughnessy were with us all the way . From advice on price and how to present the house to organising BER rating and clearance of the property. Ryan kept us updated constantly especially with the bidding and achieved way over the asking price. From accepting the bid to completion Ryan was an enormous help especially with some difficult issues that arose.
He worked tirelessly to get the sale over the line and his support and advice was greatly appreciated. Would highly recommend Mason Estates and especially Ryan O’Shaughnessy.
I reached out to Ryan while he was working for another agency. Having met him while we were tenants way back over a decade ago.
Back then, he found us a fair solution to a problem, even though he didn’t have to.
We never forgot this, and when we decided to sell our house, we knew he was the guy to do it.
When Ryan switched over to Mason Estates recently, we still wanted him as our Estate Agent.
This sale was not an easy one at all, thankfully Ryan was there to help at every step of the process.
From hiring and liaising with builders to update our home to bring to market.
Ryan was also there to help sort it out when there was a problem with the map folio, hiring a necessary surveyor & architect to resolve it.
When solicitors were delaying the sale, Ryan kept the sale on track by communicating well with the buyers and keeping them on board.
Ryan worked tirelessly through the whole process, he was definitely the right man for the job.
We owe Ryan a debt beyond his fee. We are truly grateful to Ryan for all his hard work and skills on what was not an easy sale.
Without Ryan (and the support of Mason Estates) we do not believe this sale would of gone through.
My whole family thanks you for everything you have done for us.
In short, we would not hesitate recommending Ryan and Mason Estates to anybody who is looking to sell their house.
We used Masons for the recent sale of our property. We met Sean who was very easy to deal with and then Ryan was our main contact for the sale. Ryan was great to deal with, we had zero issues. He was great dealing with purchasers and all the back and forth in between. Overall we would recommend Ryan and the team at Masons.
Mason Estates were recommended to me by the Solicitor in charge of my late mother’s estate. During a difficult time, I met with Sean Mason in my role as executrix. I cannot recommend Sean and his team highly enough. Sean walked me through the ins and outs of selling a property. He explained everything clearly and without fuss and did everything I needed, from Probate valuation, to when the best time would be to put the property on the market, to the presentation of the house all while we were dealing with Covid-19.
Sean and his team organised house clearance, garden clean up without any difficulty and Sean was empathetic throughout. His sense of humour helped in times of great stress, his straight forward manner, his energy and exceptional character would be hard to beat.
On a practical side, he sold the house above the asking price, was accurate with his quotations for house clearing, and clearing up the garden – neither of which was in anyway an easy job.
I would have absolutely no hesitation in recommending Mason Estates to anyone and I will be engaging them again to sell my own property over the next few months and will be asking Sean’s advice on my own property search as I move forward.
I had the pleasure of dealing with Sean from Mason Estates. I needed a valuation for a property for a mortgage in the vicinity and he was very fast and helpful with the process and even quickly fixed something due to an error on my side. I would use their services in the future again if the situation arose.
Ryan and Team at Mason Estates were extremely pleasant to deal with during the purchase of our property. They were always happy to assist and accommodate with our questions and viewings during the process and we will like to thank for this. We would highly recommend Masons for any of your Property needs.
We had the pleasure of renting a property through Mason Estates from 2020-2024. Carmel and Chloe were fantastic to deal with and great communicators. Whether it was the annual boiler service, or any maintenance needed, Mason Estates were always on top of it in an efficient manner. Would highly recommended them.
We bought our first home with Maria in Mason Estates and couldn’t be happier. As first time buyers the home buying process can be stressful but Maria was very responsive, fantastic at keeping us informed and clearly communicating next steps, which made the process much easier. She was a pleasure to deal with and we are so grateful to Maria and the wider Mason Estates team for such a smooth and supportive experience.
I only have the highest of praise for Fiona and her colleagues at Mason Estates, professional and kind consideration for the difficult task of selling a family home was shown throughout the process.
Great service. Fiona provided sound advice on how to best to present the property. And worked really hard to get a good price. And most importantly Mason’s offered great value for the service. I would have no hesitation recommending Masons to a prospective seller.
Had a great experience both purchasing and selling a house with Ryan and team, they were great to work with as both a purchaser and seller. Would highly recommend.
We just bought a house and the agent was Ryan O’Shaughnessy. He was great to deal, responsive to all our questions and moved everything along quickly for a smooth closing process.
We have used Mason’s for a number of Sales & Purchases and always found their advice, personal approach and market expertise excellent. Both Sean & Ryan have been brilliant and always exceeded expectations and I can’t recommend them highly enough.
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