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    Richard Harding, Bristol Estate Agents - an experienced and professional independent family business...
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    ...dedicated to getting the very best results for our clients and successfully selling residential property of all kinds in all price ranges including many of the finest homes in and around Bristol. We are known especially for handling a wide range of interesting, special and attractive properties with a good selection of high quality family houses and flats.

    We are trusted expert advisers delivering outstanding results and an exceptional service from a pivotal Whiteladies Road office location between Redland and Clifton, covering all prime city and suburban areas and surrounding countryside.

    Our success is based on a culture where clients' interests come first and our ethos is to treat people how we would like to be treated. We look forward to helping you in any way we can.

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Selling your home ...
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    10 compelling reasons why you should choose us
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    We get the best possible results...

    Certainly anyone choosing us to sell their property can depend on and trust us to know what it takes to achieve their objectives in the best possible way and in any market conditions.

    We listen carefully as every client's needs are different. Because we have such a broad range of experience, expertise and local knowledge, we can then provide the necessary advice and tailor our service to best meet each client's requirements.

    Whatever the situation, whether straightforward or complicated, we will find the best course of action and solve the problems. We have a long and reliable track record to prove it.

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    Intimate local market knowledge...
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    All the partners and most of our service-driven handpicked team live and work in and around the areas we serve and have done for decades. During all this time we have helped literally thousands of clients successfully sell their properties.

    This a genuine track record of success and achievement that underpins our unique insight in the local property market. We have our finger constantly on the pulse and our clients find all this local market intelligence and know-how gives them a significant advantage in achieving their objectives.
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    Comprehensive Marketing...
    Introducing your property to the widest possible range of interested buyers is essential. We have lots of ways of doing that. In addition to the many local buyers that we attract, we also sell to significant numbers relocating from all parts of the country, including many London buyers, and an increasing overseas list. This demonstrates that we have a regional, national and international marketing reach for our clients' properties as well as a high profile locally. We use all the following marketing resources and processes to achieve maximum exposure.
    • Websites - in addition to our own website, your property will feature on the vitally important major portal Rightmove plus others.
    • Buyer Database - constantly updated, this is a major source of buyers to whom your property is promoted by telephone, email and post.
    • Newspaper/Print Media Advertising - prominent, distinctive and extensive weekly single or double page advertising in suitable local print media, newspapers and magazines.
    • Sales Literature - professional high quality sales particulars with colour photographs and professional floor plans, designed to make a good first impression.
    • Prime High Street Location with Prominent Window Display - our hub location on the vibrant Whiteladies Road main thoroughfare is in the perfect spot for passers-by pausing for a glance at our window and often coming in to pick up property details.
    • For Sale Board - these are optional, but are genuinely very effective and highly recommended.
    • Telesales and Constant Communication - we get to know our buyers personally and a phone call is often all that is necessary to alert a committed proceedable buyer to view your property and trigger a sale. We are firm believers in regular communication.
    • Accompanied Viewings - We accompany all viewings if possible. It reduces the hassle and stress for our clients, is convenient and more efficient time-wise for buyers, it allows buyers to concentrate on the property's attributes and generates more accurate feedback. Vitally, you will have a professional sales person promoting your property.
    • Open houses - a marketing initiative which we often recommend and adapt to suit the property. This is convenient, effective and encourages healthy competition for your property.
    • Excellent Contacts with Relocation Agents - another useful source of buyers, especially at the high end of the market.
    • Presentation Advice and Pre-Sale Preparation to maximise price and saleability - helps many of our clients to a much more profitable sale, and ranges from a simple de-clutter to more significant cosmetic improvements.
    • Generous Staffing with the Right People Offering Personal Service - to provide buyers with an exceptional personal service, giving them the time and attention they need, is a powerful marketing tool.
    • Discreet Marketing - for certain kinds of property and particular client circumstances a low key approach may be appropriate and can produce an exceptional result.
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    Exceptional service...
    Our friendly personal service is dedicated to getting the very best results for our clients and we work hard. We like to be professional, straightforward and business-like but always approachable, proactive and supportive. Whilst we are very proud of our reputation and much of our business comes through personal recommendation and word of mouth, we are never complacent.

    Above all, the innate desire to help people and striving always to provide the best possible service for all our clients is at the core of everything we do. It drives the range, delivery and style of our services and who we employ. For all our team, going the extra mile is not the exception, it is what comes naturally.

    Uncomplicated and reliable excellence is what we aim for. Doing the simple things well. Being positive and helpful. Courtesy and respect. Attention to detail. A transparent and open approach. Always returning phone calls and emails as promptly as possible. Constant communication. Intelligent and thoughtful guidance. Support and advice given with empathy and consideration. Accompanied viewings Reliable constructive feedback for our vendor clients. High quality promotion and marketing. Expert negotiating. Highly skilled effective sales progression. Outstanding results.

    Whilst selling our clients' properties is of paramount importance our service encompasses so much more that may be important for our clients' welfare and a successful outcome. This includes advising on, and helping find and secure, an onward purchase along with any other property concerns or queries that may arise.
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    Special professional expertise + experience
    We are RICS qualified career estate agents and our experience and knowledge of property and the Estate Agency world has been accumulating since the mid 1970s.

    Working successfully through the three major property market recessions and many boom markets that have occurred during this time provides a deep well of experience and acumen that consistently benefits our clients by enabling us to deliver effective solutions to problems that might otherwise hinder or prevent a sale.

    This professional background and know-how built up over many years, in combination with our specialist local market knowledge and concern to genuinely help people, also allows us to provide considered and profitable advice to clients over a broad spectrum of property matters. All this has earned us a reputation for outstanding service, advice and results that people respect and value highly.

    Our partners are fully involved in the day to day running of the business dealing personally with clients and buyers and we have approaching 150 years of combined Estate Agency experience within our team. That is a remarkable and invaluable reserve of in-depth knowledge and expertise that is of considerable, on occasions incalculable, advantage to our clients.

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    Trust + integrity - putting clients first
    Integrity and dependability is at the very heart of our company and our vendor clients always come first. We believe in fair play and honesty and we give the advice that is best for them. They can also rely on our being discreet and understanding.

    We feel a strong loyalty to all our clients, not least because they've chosen us when there are plenty to choose from. We take the responsibility very seriously to do everything to make our clients' journey and the outcome as good as it can be.

    We don't take short cuts. We are thorough and don't leave things to chance. We know what it takes to 'make it right' and we work hard to make sure it is right. This applies to all sorts of situations in the selling and moving process. We really care about our clients and strive to reciprocate their trust and faith in us with the best results and service.
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    Our high calibre team...
    Whatever the market conditions, to achieve the best outcome in terms of price and the least stressful moving experience, you need the best team of people available. As well as those with the right professional skills, we look for people who have a natural aptitude for service, good communication and hard work, together with a mature approach with plenty of common sense and life experience.

    Our business is ultimately about people and, whilst we have expert knowledge, that is just the beginning. Each one of the team brings their own individual personality and character into play and we all work together to deal with whatever is necessary to deliver the best service with the emphasis on creating and maintaining close working relationships with all concerned.

    Including the partners, there are now approaching 20 people involved in the business and we consider ourselves fortunate to have a very loyal and competent team. Many of our staff have remained with us for a long time with all the obvious benefits to our clients and the business of continuity and experience.

    We ensure that we continue and extend the high standards we aspire to by on-going professional training and development.
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    Proudly independent...
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    Our family business is privately owned by the partners and is not a franchise or part of a corporate chain. This allows us to devote 100% of our time and effort to our clients as we are not constrained or distracted by corporate objectives and bureaucracy.

    All the partners are fully involved at grass roots level and we are able to detect and respond immediately to any changes in market conditions that have consequences for our clients without having to wait for guidance from 'on high' that may or may not be appropriate to local conditions. This enables us to keep our clients one step ahead.

    As independents, we can also offer a personalised service tailored precisely to each client's needs with a service that is warm, professional and responsive with our clients' interests remaining paramount.

    Our independence, professional qualifications and range of expertise and experience enables us to impartially recommend other property-related services such as solicitors, surveyors and financial/mortgage advisers based on genuine personal and client experience.
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    In safe hands - peace of mind...
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    We are members of, and fully regulated by, the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS), who many consider the leading professional body of the property world, the National Association of Estate Agents (NAEA) and The Property Ombudsman Scheme (TPOS).

    All three organisations require us to follow strict rules of professional conduct so your business with us is in safe hands and, in the unlikely event that you ever have a problem that you were not able to resolve with us directly, the TPOS provides an impartial external redress scheme.

    These professional bodies are the industry's leading organisations and we like to maintain the highest professional standards by conforming to their guidelines. We believe it is a clear sign that you are dealing with a thoroughly reputable and respected agent.
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    What people say about us...
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    If you want to know what we are like, we would much prefer to let our clients do the talking for us and say how it was for them.

    One of the most satisfying aspects of the job we do is the positive response we get from our clients and the many kind letters, emails and cards we receive speak for themselves about the type of service and results we deliver and the support and expertise we can offer.

    To read about this please click on the Testimonial Tab on the left hand side.
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finding the right home ...
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    "I congratulate and thank you and your team for a very professional and helpful approach shown to me during the purchase of my first property (it will always be special)" Ash

    "Thank you for your help in assisting us with our house search. We both really appreciated your professionalism and expertise, in stark contrast to some of your competitors!" Craig Stritch

    In the prime Bristol residential property market the Richard Harding name stands for exceptional service and great properties. We like to provide a really good wide selection of properties in all price ranges and prime areas. This makes it easier for you as a buyer to find a suitable property with us.

    Please either contact us personally on the telephone to talk through your requirements or if you prefer, register with us on this site. Even better, why not make an appointment to pop in and speak to one of us in person? Once you are registered, we will send you regular emails or mailings of suitable properties and will also telephone you where appropriate.

    All our intimate local knowledge is there to help you find the right property. We will endeavour to provide useful property information and genuine guidance and support. You may also have a property to sell, in which case we would be pleased to provide help and advice if it is within our local area or make suitable recommendations of agents we might know in the area where you are selling.

    If we don't have what you are looking for we will go out and try to find it for you as there are properties we are aware of that are not currently on the market, but which may suit your needs.

    When you have agreed to buy a property through us we will be doing everything we can to progress the sale through the conveyancing process, and will keep you informed of progress towards the desired outcome.

    As a buyer, you will always put yourself in a stronger position if you have arranged any finances you require in advance, ideally with supporting paperwork from your lender and/or evidence of available cash funds. It is also an advantage if you have a good solicitor and surveyor lined up and the costs identified. If you would like us to recommend suitable solicitors, surveyors and mortgage advisers we would be pleased to do so.

    We are fully regulated through membership of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS), the National Association of Estate Agents (NAEA) and The Property Ombudsman Scheme (TPOS) and adhere to high professional standards in accordance with their strict codes of conduct in all our services to property buyers.

    If you need assistance with any aspect of buying your next property, please let us know and we will be able to help.

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About us...
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    After many years experience working as estate agents and steeped in Bristol property matters Richard Harding, Angela Harding and Richard Drew opened the business together in 1996. We have never looked back, establishing a reputation and a client following that has grown from strength to strength in good markets and bad due to the quality of service and ability to deliver results.

    Richard Harding and Richard Drew (now a Consultant) are both career Estate Agents and qualified Chartered Surveyors whilst Angela Harding has now retired. Always recruiting with an eye to the future has seen three outstanding and experienced career estate agents, Peter Walker, Neil Muirhead and Peter Sharland progress through our ranks to become (full equity) partners in 2008, 2013 and 2017 respectively.

    This professional background and range of experience combined with in-depth local knowledge and contacts built up over many years is rare amongst Estate Agents today. We have expanded with our success and we have committed and talented individuals throughout our team as we trust you will discover.

    Please read about the staff at Richard Harding.

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    Richard Harding MA (Cantab) FRICS

    Senior Partner

    richard@richardharding.co.uk

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    Sarah Gilbert

    Operations Manager

    sarah@richardharding.co.uk

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    Zoe Starr MA (Hons)
    Office Manager

    zoe@richardharding.co.uk
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    Sarah Taylor
    Assistant Office Manager

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    Peter Walker

    Partner

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    Neil Muirhead MScSurv

    Partner

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    Peter Sharland BA(Hons)

    Partner

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    Richard Drew BSc MRICS

    Consultant

    rdrew@richardharding.co.uk

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    Katherine Williams
    Estate Agent & Valuer

    katherine@richardharding.co.uk
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    Ben Woollams MNAEA
    Estate Agent & Valuer

    ben@richardharding.co.uk
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    Tom West
    Estate Agent

    tom@richardharding.co.uk
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    Ben Murray Brown
    Estate Agent

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    Katherine Sparks

    BA (Hons), Estate Agent

    ksparks@richardharding.co.uk

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    Pennie Hooper
    Estate Agent

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    Ann Fevyer
    Estate Agent

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    Sara Perrin

    Estate Agent

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    Claire Drew

    Accounts Manager

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    Stefanie Mason

    Office Secretary

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    Frances West

    Office Secretary

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    Alison Lawrence

    Office Secretary

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