How each selling route works.
Three illustrative examples showing how our different routes — assisted sale, tenanted sale, and cash purchase — work in practice. These are educational scenarios to help you understand your options, not records of past clients.
Illustrative · Assisted Sale
The kind of situation: Imagine three siblings inherit their mother's home, which hasn't been updated in decades. Two live elsewhere in the UK and want a clean, hands-off sale. A national cash buyer offers around £85,000.
How the assisted-sale route would work: We'd model both options. A straight cash sale nets roughly £85,000. Under an assisted sale, we'd agree an "as-is" baseline of £85,000 plus a 50% share of the uplift after a refurbishment (say ~£28,000 of works) and resale at full market value.
Illustrative outcome: If the refurbished property then sold for around £147,500, the uplift after costs might be ~£28,000. The family would receive their £85,000 baseline plus a £14,000 share = about £99,000 total — more than the upfront cash offer, with no work and no money out of pocket. These figures are for illustration only; real numbers depend on the property, the works needed, and the market.
Illustrative · Tenanted Sale
The kind of situation: Imagine a long-standing Paisley landlord who wants to retire. There's a reliable PRT tenant in place who has paid £625/month for years and never missed a payment. The landlord doesn't want to disrupt a good tenant just to sell.
How the tenanted-sale route would work: We'd make a yield-based offer with the tenant staying in place. On annual rent of £7,500, an offer of around £88,000 (≈11.7× annual rent, roughly 95% of vacant-possession value) could work for both sides.
Illustrative outcome: A sale like this could complete in under three weeks with no void period, no agent fee, and no Notice to Leave. The tenant stays, the deposit transfers via SafeDeposits Scotland, and the PRT is formally assigned. Figures shown are illustrative — actual offers depend on the rent, lease terms, and property value.
Illustrative · Cash Purchase
The kind of situation: Imagine the owner of an ex-council semi in Hamilton facing repossession after a job loss — mortgage arrears, a calling-up notice, and a court date approaching. The property is non-standard construction (e.g. Wimpey No-Fines concrete), which means high-street lenders won't mortgage it, so a cash buyer is the only realistic route.
How the cash-purchase route would work: Speed is everything here. A first call, a viewing the next day, a cash offer within a couple of days, and solicitors instructed immediately. Once the lender is told a sale is progressing, they'll often pause court action.
Illustrative outcome: A sale like this could complete in around 9 days. If the mortgage of ~£52,000 is cleared in full, the owner might receive roughly £33,000 after fees — money they'd lose entirely in a repossession — and avoid a repossession marker on their credit file. With non-standard construction, we'd later commission the structural surveys and certifications needed to make the property mortgageable again. All figures here are illustrative, not a promise of a specific result.
About these examples.
The scenarios on this page are illustrative examples created for educational purposes only. They are not real clients, and they do not describe sales we have completed. We've built them to show clearly how each of our selling routes works in practice, so you can understand which might suit your situation.
The figures are realistic estimates chosen to demonstrate the mechanics of each route — they are not guaranteed outcomes, quotes, or averages. Property values, refurbishment costs, rents, and timescales vary widely.
Your situation will be different. When you get in touch, we'll model your specific property and circumstances and give you real, tailored numbers — with no obligation. Where sellers are happy for us to, we'll add real, anonymised case studies here over time (shared only with their permission).