Most families need to sell in order to buy — and most property frustrations begin precisely there. Our work is to coordinate the two operations so the transition is never an upheaval.
Selling and buying at the same time means, in practice, managing two processes with different calendars, different financing and different emotions. Without coordination, the move is lived between the anxiety of losing the right house and the fear of being left with nowhere to stay. With method, the transition fits into a plan.
We study the current house and define the profile of the next — together.
We decide whether it makes sense to sell first, buy first or make one conditional on the other.
We coordinate bridging loans, mortgage transfer and available capital.
Interim housing solutions where needed — never living out of suitcases.
It almost always happens like this: an agency is hired to sell, and the next house is searched for in parallel, alone. The dates never speak to each other. When the right house appears, yours has not yet sold — by the time it sells, the house is gone. The frustration is born of a lack of coordination, not a lack of opportunities.
We treat the sale and the purchase as parts of a single plan. The same brief, the same timeline, the same financial understanding. This allows for rare decisions: for example, making the sale conditional on the acquisition (or vice versa) within the contract itself.
Where your patrimonial position allows it, we arrange a bridging loan with the bank so the purchase can happen before the sale. Where it does not, we organise the reverse sequence with transition solutions (a short rental, staying with family within defined timeframes, or furnished interim housing).
There is no universal answer. It depends on liquidity, on the profile of the current property, on the target market and on urgency. In general:
In parallel with the sale, we conduct the search for the next house — including off-market properties that never reach the portals. See Buy a house. We only visit what makes sense, so that the family's time is respected.
In specific cases — above all between families at opposite stages of life — a property exchange can resolve both ends of the problem at once. When it makes sense, we explore that path before any other.
There is no universal answer — it depends on the liquidity available, on your current property and on the market where you are searching. Selling first protects your financial position; buying first avoids the double move but requires bridging finance or capital. In the first conversation we design the safest sequence for your case, before any public decision.
It is temporary financing that allows you to buy the next house before the current one is sold, settled with the proceeds of the sale. Not every profile can support one — we make that assessment with the credit intermediary at the very start of the process.
It is one of the scenarios we plan for from the outset: deadline clauses in the contracts, coordination between the two negotiations and, where necessary, transition solutions defined in advance. The difference between an upheaval and a calm move lies in the prior design, not in luck.
Yes. In stable markets, it is common to sign a promissory purchase agreement conditional on the sale of the current property (and vice versa), with deadlines and penalties carefully drawn up. It is one of the areas where we add most value for families in transition.
See also the Owner's Glossary.
To see whether the two sets of figures meet, use the sell-to-buy simulator.
Before putting your house on the market or visiting the first one, book a conversation. In an hour we can design the safest sequence for your case.