A property house · Harrogate
Aldergate takes on around forty homes a year — photographed properly, priced honestly, and walked through by someone who has actually stood in every room. We are deliberately not a portal with a logo.
How we sell
Every agent has a process. Ours fits in four steps because the other twelve were theatre.
A valuation built from comparable sales we'll show you, not a flattering guess to win the instruction. Priced right once beats reduced twice.
Photography on a good-light day, a floor plan that tells the truth, and a listing written by someone who noticed the pantry.
Viewings hosted by us, never by a lockbox. We answer the awkward questions accurately — buyers can tell, and trust closes gaps.
The unglamorous weeks of chasing solicitors and steadying nerves. This is most of the job and nobody photographs it.
For sale
A short list, on purpose. Every home here has been measured, walked and priced by the person who answers the phone.
The record
A house is priced right exactly once.
Who answers the phone
Two directors and one office manager, which means the person who valued your house also hosts the viewings, reads the survey and rings you on Friday whether or not there's news. Especially when there's no news — that call matters most.
We've sold on this high street for nineteen years. Half our instructions arrive as 'you sold my sister's place'.
From past sales
Two agents valued higher to win the listing. Aldergate showed me why they were wrong, priced it right, and we exchanged in nine weeks at 99% of asking. The maths spoke.
They rang every Friday for eleven weeks. Twice the news was 'nothing yet, here's why'. You cannot buy that from a portal.
The listing mentioned the larder, the loose stair and the neighbour's magnificent walnut tree. Buyers arrived already half in love and fully informed.
Valuation
An hour at your kitchen table: comparable sales in print, a walk through every room, and a number we can defend. No obligation, no follow-up campaign.
Visitors pick a date and time here, then leave their details.
The office
The bay window with the hand-written cards — we never did move to backlit screens. Come in for the honest number or just the gossip about the market.