Scottish Home Reports for Home Sellers
If you wish to sell your property in Scotland, you are required to have a Home Report in place before you can begin to market your property. Don’t let the cost of a Home Report delay your sale.
Contact your local Scottish YOUR MOVE branch and see how we can help you get your home to market.
YOUR MOVE lets you choose to pay for your Home Report when you sell your home† not when you market it.
YOUR MOVE can make moving easier by sorting out the Home Report for you and we offer a comprehensive service all under one roof. The benefits of the YOUR MOVE Home Report include:
- No upfront fee for your Home Report – we offer a choice of payment options for your Home Report
- Professionally produced Home Report – high quality printed report presenting your property in its best light
- Fixed price Home Report within days, so no waiting
- Available online - quick and easy access
- Full range of marketing services to support your sale
Why do I need a Home Report in Scotland?
The majority of properties which are put onto the market in Scotland from 1st December 2008 will need to have a Home Report. The Home Report includes important information about the property (please see below for a summary) and an Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) which provides a rating of the property’s energy efficiency. The Home Report should help to improve the home buying and selling process by making available up front information relevant to the property.
What does a Home Report contain?
The Scottish Home Report will include the following documents:
Single Survey
The home buyers survey provides sellers with detailed information about the condition and value of a home before it is marketed for sale. It also includes an accessibility audit.
Energy Report
This gives a home’s energy efficiency rating and its environmental impact in terms of carbon dioxide emissions.
Property Questionnaire
This section of the report is completed by the seller and contains information for home buyers, solicitors and surveyors, for example a home’s council tax band or local authority notices relating to it.
What does the Home Report in Scotland offer to Buyers?
The Home Report is designed to ensure that information needed by potential buyers is available to you when you need it, as you consider whether or not to buy a property. It brings together key information needed by buyers and sellers at the very start of the home-buying process, and ensures that important information about improving the energy efficiency of homes is made available when a property is sold.
The property questionnaire can help a buyer assess additional monthly costs such as council tax and the Energy Report can also provide guidance to a buyer on how they could make the property more energy efficient.
Further information about Home Reports can be found at: www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Built-Environment/Housing/BuyingSelling/Home-Report
^ This offer does not apply to customers of our franchised branches in Scotland.
† Or withdraw from market, or 9 months later, whichever is sooner.
