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Details: Published: 27 November 2020; Hits: 16

Killens is a well-respected independent firm of Chartered Surveyors and Property Agents covering North and Central Somerset.

The position is as an Estate Agent/Negotiator based at our Chew Magna office. There is scope for career progression to a senior level and the position has great potential. Within the firm, everyone works as one friendly team with an ethos of delivering honest, straight-forward advice and the highest level of customer service.

Details: Published: 22 August 2020; Hits: 211

We are continuing to see an active housing market as buyers rush to find homes in rural areas with gardens and workspace and sellers hurry to list their properties in order to take advantage of the stamp duty holiday.

Details: Published: 06 June 2020; Hits: 513

We have been really busy in selling and letting properties over the past month.

Tom Killen takes a look at the housing market since the formal opening of estate agency offices.

Details: Published: 06 June 2020; Hits: 300

Guidance for Clients in selling and buying homes

With the housing market reopening for business, the Government have issued clear advice on the house moving process and we summarise these, and their implications for you, below.

If you would like to read the guidelines for yourself, please find them here:

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/government-advice-on-home-moving-during-the-coronavirus-covid-19-outbreak

In short, people are free to sell, buy or let a property and to move home but there are strict safety recommendations in place to protect all parties at every step of the process. Your house can be marketed and you can start to look for a new property to move into, but there are rules around keeping as much of the process virtual as possible and sticking very carefully to social distancing and hygiene advice. Here, we summarise the guidance and are procedures.