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The Home Handover · Assisted-sale partner for estate agents

Keep the instruction.
Increase the opportunity.

THH funds and manages improvements to suitable properties, helping agents bring a stronger listing back to market — while you remain the instructed selling agent.

THH funds and manages the works. It does not fund, manage or replace the agent.

Reduced · under offer risk94 days
14 Elm Rise, Harrogate
Guide reduced to £480,000
TMarketed by Thornbury & CoInstruction
Relaunched · improvedNew to market
14 Elm Rise, Harrogate
Illustrative improved GDV £875,000
TStill marketed by Thornbury & CoRetained

The commercial mechanism

A stronger achieved result can mean a stronger fee.

Where your commission is a percentage of the achieved sale price, the same fee rate applied to an improved result produces a larger fee. You keep the instruction; THH carries the cost and delivery of the works.

Illustrative — same property, same 1.25% fee basis + VAT

Illustrative agent fee

£7,200£13,125

Potential increase £5,925

Both figures include VAT. Excluding VAT the fees are £6,000 and £10,937.50.

£480,000
Fee £7,200 inc VAT
Listed £480,000
£875,000 GDV
Fee £13,125 inc VAT
+£395,000 · THH-funded
Listed £480,000
As listed todayImproved GDV

You keep the instruction

THH does not become the selling agent. The property stays instructed with you, from relaunch through to completion.

You do not fund or manage the works

THH funds the improvement and manages the contractors and programme. No cost or project risk sits with your agency.

Commission stays governed by your terms

Your fee remains set by your agreement with the vendor. THH does not alter, set or take a share of your commission.

Where it fits

The listings this is designed for.

Instructions where unrealised value is holding the price down — and where a funded, managed improvement could credibly change the result.

01

Dated homes attracting discounted offers

Presentable enough to list, but buyers are anchoring low because the condition reads as work.

02

Buyers pricing in significant works

Every viewer discounts for a refurbishment they'd rather not take on — so the offer never reflects the finished home.

03

Poor configuration or presentation

A layout or finish that shows badly on viewings and in photographs, suppressing interest that better space would attract.

04

Instructions at risk of becoming stale

Listings drifting past the point where price reductions alone stop working — and where withdrawal or re-instruction elsewhere becomes the real risk.

05

Credible extension or reconfiguration potential

Homes where added space or a reworked plan would move the property into a stronger band — potential the current listing cannot show.

The operating sequence

A controlled sequence — with you at both ends.

The agent opens and closes the process. THH carries assessment, funding and delivery in between. Every stage is defined before work begins.

Agent

Identify a suitable listing

You flag an instruction where value is being left on the table.

THH

Initial assessment

THH reviews the property and the improvement case.

THH

Structured proposal

The homeowner receives a clear scope, timeline and terms.

Owner

Improvements agreed

The homeowner approves the works and the sale approach.

THH

THH funds & manages

Contractors appointed and delivery managed, at THH's cost.

Agent

Prepare for market

You position and relaunch the improved property.

Agent

Continue the sale

You market, negotiate and complete as instructed agent.

Agent-ledTHH-ledHomeowner decision

Division of responsibilities

Clear lines. No overlap.

Each party has a defined role across the life of the instruction. Nobody takes on the other's risk.

Across the instruction
The agent
THH
The homeowner
Instruction
Retains the instruction as selling agent
Does not act as, or replace, the agent
Retains ownership throughout
Assessment & scope
Advises on market positioning
Assesses the improvement opportunity
Reviews and approves the proposal
Funding & delivery
No cost or project involvement
Funds approved works; appoints & manages contractors; oversees delivery
Provides access for the works
Marketing & sale
Manages marketing, viewings and the sale
Steps back from the sale process
Proceeds with the open-market sale
Relationship
Continues the vendor relationship
Supports the agent, not the vendor-facing role
Decides which offer to accept

Why agents work with THH

A route for the instructions that stall.

Evidence-led, not promotional. THH gives you an option to offer homeowners before a discount or a withdrawal becomes the only path.

01

Retain more difficult instructions

Hold on to listings that might otherwise stall, be reduced repeatedly, or move to another agent.

02

Offer an alternative to discounting

Give homeowners a considered option before accepting a below-potential offer.

03

Bring a better-presented property to market

Relaunch a listing that photographs, shows and reads as a finished home.

04

Increase buyer appeal

A completed property can widen the buyer pool beyond those willing to take on works.

05

Preserve your role

You remain the instructed agent and the vendor's point of contact throughout.

06

No development or project risk

THH carries the funding, the contractors and the programme — not your agency.

A quick qualification

Is a listing worth submitting?

A short test before you refer. If most of the left column is true and little of the right, it is worth a conversation.

Well suited

A credible, deliverable improvement case.

A clear value-improvement case
Homeowner willing to allow time for works
A realistic open-market exit
Property within THH's target geography
A commercially viable scope of works

Less suited

Better served by a different route.

Owner requires an immediate sale
Structural or planning uncertainty dominates
The improvement case is weak
Owner will not permit the necessary works
No realistic route to an open-market sale

Submit a listing

Have a listing that may suit an assisted sale?

Share the basic details and THH will assess whether there is a credible improvement case worth discussing.

You remain the instructed selling agent throughout.
No vendor names or documents needed at this stage.
A considered response, not an automated quote.
No obligation. No cost to enquire.