Buying a Home

Whether you’re a first-time buyer, or you’re upsizing or downsizing, a new home is a new beginning.
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Track your purchase

Ashington Page is powered by the leading technology and comes with an app for you the buyer to track your property purchase, your viewings, and any offers. You will experience an immersive and extraordinary selling experience by delivering transparency and convenience to both you and the seller. View where your purchase is up to 24/7 through your own account on the app or desktop. It all means that anyone who deals with us can know more and do more… And we can too. With the app you can:

  • Monitor progress as it happens.
  • See exactly what you need to do next.
  • Tick off necessary processes, one at a time.
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Be clear about what you want


What are your must-haves? What are your personal preferences? A clear idea of what you want will help to save time and ensure that you’re only viewing relevant properties.

Ashington Page - buying a home
Ashington Page - buying a home

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You’ll need mortgage advice

Be sure of affordability and seek confirmation of potential mortgage arrangements. This will help you to have your offer taken seriously by any vendor. We are happy to recommend local mortgage advisors and will happily put you in touch should the need arise. We’ve added a simple mortgage calculator here to help get you started.

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To buy or sell first?

We believe it’s best to first focus on the sale of any existing property. This comes back to having your ducks in a row with mortgage arrangements confirmed and an offer for your existing property. In this way, your offer can be seriously considered by a potential vendor.

Ashington Page - buying a home
Ashington Page - buying a home

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Find the right property

Once you have an offer for your home and your finances in place it’s time for the fun bit! You are now in a good position to make an offer. Our website is a great resource for local, available properties and our team all live locally so are perfectly placed to offer good advice.

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Making an offer

 Once you’ve found a suitable property it’s time to make an offer. But how much do you offer? This will be influenced by your budget; finance arrangements and how much work might be needed on your new home.

Ashington Page - buying a home
Ashington Page - buying a home

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Be clear about what you want

Once you’ve had an offer accepted, you’ll need to submit your mortgage application and instruct your solicitors. Your mortgage provider will do a mortgage valuation before issuing a formal mortgage offer. Your solicitor will undertake all searches and ensure that all permissions and guarantees are in place. At this point, we’ll be working hard to ensure that all parties in the chain are doing their bit.

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Exchanging contracts

The legal due diligence is now done and you’re in a position to exchange and commit to a completion date.

Ashington Page - buying a home
Ashington Page - buying a home

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Completion

Pick up the keys and it’s time to move into your new home.