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Your Edinburgh seller and moving pack

A printable checklist for selling your home and preparing an onward move within Edinburgh.

Combines a seller checklist with your saved next-home streets, viewing questions and optional purchase-cost illustrations. It does not assess an individual home. Use Print / Save as PDF in your browser; no PDF service or account is needed.

Anyone with a shared link can see the streets and figures in it, so leave out anything confidential. Opening a pack does not change your saved shortlist. Privacy · Edit your shortlist.

One purchase scenario for this pack

Optional: these figures are not prices or liabilities for each street. Leave an amount blank to omit that estimate.

Purchase price (£)Effective date All buyers qualify for first-time buyer relief Additional dwelling supplement (ADS) applies

One shared-repair illustration

The optional shared-repairs illustration is for flats and shared buildings. Skip it for a home without shared repair liabilities.

Total bill (£)Number of liable flats (2–200)Type of repair cost

Qualifying structural / roof costs only: the statutory 1.5-times floor-area test may apply. Title deeds take priority.

Optional floor areas (comma-separated, same units)

Preparing your pack…

Printable preparation document

Your pack

Review your street checks and any estimates below before sharing or saving as PDF.

Edinburgh Estate AgentSeller and moving preparation pack

Not a survey, valuation, legal or tax advice. Street flags are area context, not findings about the home. Missing flags are not an all-clear. Confirm the exact address, Home Report, title deeds, notices and buyer circumstances with your solicitor and surveyor.

Your selling and moving preparation checklist

Suggested sequence, not a fixed-length timetable. Discuss the order and dependencies with your solicitor. Ticks are only on this open page; they are not stored or included in a shared link. Do not enter confidential information.

1. Before marketing

The official first-steps guidance recommends speaking to a solicitor, checking the title documents and making guarantees and warranties available.

Discuss your sale and onward purchase with your solicitor. Ask which dates are provisional and what could affect the sequence.
Gather title information, guarantees, warranties and paperwork for alterations needing planning or building-control consent.
Ask your lender about the amount needed to repay the mortgage and put selling and buying costs on separate budget lines.

2. Prepare the Home Report

Most Scottish homes need a Home Report. The seller completes the questionnaire; a chartered surveyor prepares the single survey and energy report. Exemptions are explained in the official guidance.

Arrange the Home Report before marketing unless your solicitor confirms an exemption. Read all three parts.
Check the questionnaire against your records rather than guessing an answer about repairs, alterations or notices.
Plan to supply a requested Home Report within nine days, subject to the official exceptions. The guidance says failure can lead to a £500 fine.
If the property comes off the market for more than 28 days, ask what needs updating before re-marketing. This is not an automatic expiry after 28 days on the market.

3. Plan the Edinburgh-to-Edinburgh move

The next steps below are our practical preparation prompts, not a prescribed conveyancing timetable or a guarantee that two transactions can settle together.

Save possible next streets in your shortlist. This pack reuses those street checks below; they do not assess an individual home.
Compare your next street’s parking, transport and other living-here checks, then confirm the exact property separately.
Ask your solicitor how sale proceeds, the onward deposit and the date of entry can be coordinated. Ask about the consequences if one transaction is delayed.
Get advice about LBTT and any Additional Dwelling Supplement if the purchase and sale do not line up. Do not assume a calculator decides eligibility or repayment rights.

4. Agree the contract

mygov.scot explains that a qualified acceptance sets out the seller’s conditions. Solicitors negotiate through missives; a concluding missive is a binding contract.

Ask your solicitor to explain the conditions, unresolved points and proposed entry date before you agree.
Check when each transaction becomes binding. Do not treat an informal agreement or suggested date as a concluded contract.
Keep the sale and purchase question lists separate. Use the offers and missives guide for background, not individual legal advice.

5. Prepare for settlement

The official settlement guidance explains the disposition transferring ownership, the solicitor’s mortgage repayment arrangements, and signing and arranging keys just before settlement.

Follow your solicitor’s arrangements for signing the disposition and repaying any mortgage.
Confirm the key handover and access arrangements with the professionals handling each transaction.
Our moving-day suggestion: prepare meter readings, service-change requests and a list of practical tasks. Confirm the council’s parking permit rules for the new home.

Official seller sources

Checked 7 November 2026. mygov.scot: before selling and Home Report · mygov.scot: missives · mygov.scot: conveyancing and settlement. General guidance, not a Home Report, legal advice or confirmation of a sale date.

Guides to keep alongside the pack

Buying a house or flat · Conveyancing costs · Home Report validity · Flat title deeds and common areas.

Sources, dates & limitations

Core data retrieved 6 November 2026; area-layer processing 6 November 2026; neighbourhood prices 2023. Recorded dataset dates and full limitations · Sources and licences. Street-specific source links appear beside the questions.

LBTT rules checked 6 November 2026: Revenue Scotland residential LBTT, first-time buyer relief and ADS. Ordinary single-home purchases only; no historic/transitional contracts, linked transactions, other reliefs or repayments. Confirm the return and rounding with your solicitor.

Repair rules checked 6 November 2026: Tenements (Scotland) Act 2004 section 4 and Schedule 1. Deeds can override the scheme; the floor-area test is not a rule for every bill. Missing areas give a provisional equal-share illustration only. Full calculator caveats.

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