I sold my property to Inspired Villages and moved within a month!

When Barbara's husband sadly passed away, she was determined to move somewhere "with an active community." After seeing a newspaper advert, she called Austin Heath and booked a visit to have a tour along with her daughter.

"My daughter and I looked around and particularly liked one apartment, so I put my deposit down that day,” said Barbara. “When I saw what was on offer in terms of group activities and the layout of the village, I was so impressed. The lifestyle really appealed to me, so I was excited to go ahead.”

However, there were issues with the buyers at the bottom of the chain, which caused lengthy delays to the sale of Barbara's property, so the Inspired Villages team suggested the Home Purchasing Service could be the right solution.

By selling her home to Inspired Villages, rather than waiting for the buyers at the bottom of the chain to progress the sale, the Home Purchasing Service would allow Barbara to move into her new apartment quickly and remove the stress she was experiencing. After consulting her children, Barbara decided to go ahead.

“The whole process was so fast, it was unbelievable," explained Barbara. "It was when I spoke to the village team about my concerns with the delays that I decided to go ahead and sell my house to Inspired Villages.”

Barbara was kept in the loop throughout the whole process and moved into her new home at Austin Heath soon after. “Looking back at the process, it was absolutely the right thing to do," said Barbara, who is full of praise for the "generous" moving-in package supplied by Inspired Villages.

She was also delighted to receive an additional payment from Inspired Villages on top of the Home Purchasing Service offer she had already received. Her property went on to sell for a lot more money than initially expected, so Barbara benefited from Inspired's profit gainshare agreement, which outlines upfront that if the property were to resell at a higher level, the service user receives an extra 80 per cent of the profit made.

Barbara is settling in well and enjoying life at Austin Heath and is full of praise for how kind and helpful everyone is here and her positive experience with her move.

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