For sale
Mara Hale
Family homes in four neighbourhoods
Selling the family home or buying your first? I price it honestly and walk every viewing myself, right up to the keys.
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(01) About Mara
One agent, from the first visit to the keys
Mara Hale
Licensed agent and owner of Hale Homes
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I started Hale Homes to sell houses the way I would want my own family's sold: one person who knows the house, answers the phone and stands in the kitchen at every viewing.
No hand-offs to a junior, no call centre, no viewings with a stranger holding your keys. I take on a handful of homes at a time in four neighbourhoods I know street by street, and I tell you plainly what I think your house will sell for and why.
- Practice One agent, no branches
- Covers Wrenfield, Ashby Vale, Millbrook Green, Larkhill Rise
- Homes Family houses, two to five bedrooms
- Viewings Weekday evenings and Saturdays
- Replies The same working day
A
An honest price
A written valuation with the nearby sales beside it, not the highest number to win your listing.
B
Every viewing, in person
I open the door, show the garden and answer the hard questions myself.
C
One phone number
Mine. It rings on my desk and in my pocket, and I call back the same day.
D
Paperwork in plain words
Every form explained before you sign it, and a weekly note on where the sale stands.
(02) Homes for sale
Eight family homes on the books
Every home here is one I have walked through myself. Ask for the floor plan or a viewing slot and I reply the same working day.
Sample listings and prices
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Under offer
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New this week
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Not listed yet
Some homes sell before they ever go online. Tell me what you need and I will call when one fits.
(03) House of the month
The Wrenfield stone house
HH-01
Asking price, sample
$685,000
Built for a family that likes to cook and garden: a kitchen that opens to the terrace, four real bedrooms and a lawn long enough for a game of catch.
- Bedrooms 4
- Bathrooms 3
- Living space 2,450 sq ft
- Plot 0.3 acre
- Parking Double garage
Room schedule
- Kitchen and dining 18'2" × 14'6"
- Living room 16'0" × 13'4"
- Primary bedroom 15'8" × 12'0"
- Bedroom two 12'10" × 11'0"
- Bedrooms three and four 11'6" × 10'0"
- Rear garden about 120 ft
(04) Neighbourhood guide
Four places I know street by street
Where the schools are, which roads are quiet after six, and what a family house really costs in each. Ask me for the full guide to any of them.
Sample neighbourhoods
01
Wrenfield
Red-brick streets from the 1930s, front gardens behind low walls, and a high street you can walk end to end in ten minutes.
- Typical home Three-bed brick semi
- On foot Two primary schools, the library, the Saturday market
- Suits First family homes, people who like to know the neighbours
02
Ashby Vale
Wide lawns, a lake path and houses set back from the road. Ten minutes further out, and a good deal quieter.
- Typical home Four-bed detached with a long garden
- On foot The lake path, a primary school, the farm shop
- Suits Growing families who want space and a longer garden
03
Millbrook Green
Older houses around the green and the brook, with footbridges, big trees and the best autumn walk in town.
- Typical home Cottage or 1950s brick house
- On foot The green, the brook trail, the parade of shops
- Suits Buyers who want character and do not mind a project
04
Larkhill Rise
Newer streets on the hill: porches, driveways and sidewalks wide enough for bikes and buggies.
- Typical home Two-storey house with a porch
- On foot The new primary, the sports fields, the bus to town
- Suits Families who want a newer house with little to fix
(05) Selling with me
How a sale works, week by week
Most homes I take on go from valuation to an agreed sale in a couple of months. Here is what happens in that time, and who does it: me.
01
Week one
A valuation visit
I walk every room with you, then send a written price with three recent sales beside it, so you can see how I got there.
- 45 minutes at your home
- Written price within two days
- No obligation to list
02
Weeks two and three
Getting the house ready
A short list of what is worth fixing and what is not, then a photographer, a measured floor plan and a description I check with you.
- One page of honest fixes
- Photographs on a bright day
- Floor plan with room sizes
03
From week four
Viewings I host myself
Every viewing is with me, never a stranger with a key. You get written notes after each one: who came, what they liked, what worried them.
- Evening and Saturday slots
- Notes after every viewing
- A call every Friday
04
Offer to keys
Offers, then the keys
I check every buyer's finances before you say yes, then chase the surveyors and solicitors until the day the keys change hands.
- Buyers checked before you accept
- One person chasing the paperwork
- Keys handed over in person
What it costs
One fee, paid only when your sale completes.
1.5% of the final sale price plus tax. No upfront charge, no fee for photographs or the floor plan, and no tie-in if you change your mind before an offer.
Sample fee: set your own
- Professional photographs
- Measured floor plan
- Every viewing hosted by me
- A written note every Friday
- The sale chased to completion
(06) Recent sales
Agreed this season
The same ledger I bring to every valuation: what sold nearby, what it was asking and how it went. No guesswork and no glossy averages.
Sample ledger
Ref and neighbourhood
Home
Asking, sample
Outcome
S-01 Wrenfield
Three-bed brick semi
$455,000
Sold at asking
S-02 Millbrook Green
Cottage with a garden studio
$512,000
Sold above asking
S-03 Ashby Vale
Four-bed detached
$648,000
Sold after one price change
S-04 Larkhill Rise
Two-storey house with a porch
$589,000
Sold at asking
S-05 Wrenfield
Five-bed family house
$731,000
Under offer
S-06 Millbrook Green
1950s brick bungalow
$468,000
Sold above asking
(07) Buying support
Buying? Call me before you view
Fig. 01 The keys, handed over in person
Most buyers I meet have already lost a house they loved. Here is the checklist I work through with every buyer family, free, whether or not you buy one of my listings.
A twenty-minute call first
Budget, schools, the commute and what you can live without, before we look at a single house.
01
Viewing notes after every visit
What I saw, what I would ask the seller, and what the survey is likely to raise.
02
Two independent mortgage advisers
Introductions only. I earn nothing from either of them, and you owe them nothing.
03
Straight advice on offers
What the house is worth to you, what it is worth to the market, and when to walk away.
04
Surveyors and solicitors families here have used
A short list with plain notes on cost and speed.
05
First call on homes before they list
Buyers on my list hear about new homes a week before they go online.
06
(08) Valuation and contact
What is your home worth?
(555) 010-0142The visit
Forty-five minutes at your home and a written price within two days. Free, with no obligation to list.
Write instead
mara@example.comWhen I pick up
Weekdays 9:00 to 18:00. Saturdays I am out at viewings, so leave a message and I call back by evening.