If you want to buy a house agented by Cluttons:

1. you'll need to instruct a solicitor the same day your offer's accepted
2. your survey will need to happen in seven days
3. you'll need a written mortgage offer in 14 days
4. you've 21 days from receipt of contract papers to sign
5. even after the surveyor's report, don't expect to negotiate

The point, clearly, is to give the vendor a little more power and reduce - if you'll pardon the expression - some of the piss-taking and time-wasting currently in the system. We say... ambitious but laudable.

[via EstateAgentToday]

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