Deceased Estate Clearance
We offer a complete end-to-end Property Clearance service for deceased estates. Our goal is to take away as much stress as possible for you. We will manage the most challenging and time consuming tasks associated with the clearance of a deceased estate property.
We can help with your loved one’s deceased estate
The passing of a family member goes hand-in-hand with sorrow and grief, and is made worse by the burden of organising the possessions in their home and selling their estate. Our services are designed to lighten your load, managing every major task associated with property clearance and giving you back the time you need to grieve. These are the main tasks we complete as part of our deceased estate house clearances:
We carefully work through every room in the home, collating, organising, and cataloguing the items if required. We take care of every single item, leaving nothing behind.
We list and sell each item through our selling channels that will achieve the best price for each individual item removed from the home.
For items that are not cost-effective to sell, we donate them to charity, re-use or recycle then dispose of the item as a last resort.
We prepare the property for sale by deep cleaning, completing any property maintenance, painting, landscaping, and renovating entire rooms.
We arrange local estate agents from our list of trusted contacts, to help you sell the property to gain a maximum financial return through selling the home.
How we manage your family member’s belongings
Working compassionately and respecting the legacy of those who have passed are two of the most important aspects of our services. We treat every single one of your loved one’s possessions with the utmost respect, and make an informed decision whether it’s best to sell or donate them. We only throw away items as a last resort, to help protect our planet’s environment.
This is our process for managing your family member’s belongings:
- Before we begin, we ask that you remove any personal belongings you’d like to keep or those specified in a will. If that’s not possible, our team can identify these items for you, set them aside, and arrange secure delivery to you or a nominated family member.
- We systematically sort through each room, cataloguing contents and assessing the best sales method for each item. Together, we determine which items are worth selling, suitable for donation, or need to be responsibly disposed of. We sell valuables through the most effective channels and donate appropriate items to trusted charities via our Pass It Forward Program.
- For items you choose to keep, we handle all packing and organise delivery through our network of reliable local and interstate couriers, ensuring safe and timely transport.
We understand how emotionally and physically demanding this process can be. That’s why we tailor our deceased estate clearance services to your specific situation, providing a compassionate, stress-free approach every step of the way.
Why use our deceased estate clearance services?
We will manage the distressing process of organising your family member’s home for sale
Give you back the time you need to grieve with your family
Manage every single item in the deceased estate property, with nothing left behind.
For items that are being sold, we will get the best financial return for you
Donate items that are being let go, with a chance of them being worthy and appreciated by someone again in the community
Meticulous deceased estate cleaning, making the property ready for the sales market, or for another resident
We are respectful of the grief that comes with deceased estate clearance, and the legacy of those who have passed
Provide you with a personalised estate clearance service, based on your unique needs
We will manage the property for you if you are living interstate, or in another country
When handling a loved one’s estate, we also offer compassionate executor support to help with legal duties
How our deceased estate house clearances works
- Phone or in-person consultation about your family member’s estate, to familiarise ourselves with your situation.
- Develop a customised, in-depth service outline and quote.
- Clear the property, selling cost-effective items, and donating or disposing of the rest.
- Provide a breakdown of sales, and make arrangements to transfer the final amount to you.
- Organise local real estate agents to help you sell the property.
The challenges of managing a deceased estate, and how we help to overcome them
Organising a family member’s estate is an immense project that requires careful planning and hard work. Here are some common obstacles that you may face, and how we help you to overcome them.
Organising and selling an estate is complex, which contain a variety of time-consuming avenues and potentially expensive tasks. The executor of the will is legally obliged to complete the process, which can make the project feel overwhelming to the point of being debilitating, when you are not sure where to even start.
Our goal is to ease the pressure by creating a comprehensive plan that covers the most challenging tasks, including clearing the property, organising the assets found within, and preparing the property for sale. By taking charge, we can restart projects that have ground to a halt, sometimes for years.
After accumulating so much over the years, deciding what to do with your family member’s belongings can be troublesome. When you’re faced with an ever-mounting pile of things, it’s easy to become overwhelmed and want to give up.
Thankfully, we are able to organise your family member’s belongings from an impartial perspective, able to identify which are cost-effective to sell, which should be donated to become useful to someone again, or which should be thrown away. Our neutral standpoint allows us to complete the process much more quickly—you can be involved as much as you would like, or leave the whole process to us. For practical guidance, see our advice on possession planning and managing belongings.
After years of experience selling items across various channels, we’ve become experts at getting the best possible price for them. In today’s market, we know the most profitable places to sell furniture, jewellery, vehicles, and every other asset that belongs to the estate.
When the house is cleared of assets, the next major task is to prepare it for sale. This often requires a lot of work, including deep cleaning, general maintenance issues, landscaping, and even renovating entire rooms, which can become painfully time consuming.
With our team of specialist contractors, we complete this entire process as part of our deceased estate clearance service, and even arrange local estate agents for you to help sell the property.
Deceased Estate House Clearance FAQs
Valuable and personal items like photos are usually removed by yourself before we start clearing the property, but if we find anything else—jewellery, antiques, photos, or even cash—we return them to you. Every item in the home belongs to the client and we respect that. We take this part of our role very seriously.
We offer much more than typical deceased estate clearing services, who may only take items that are easy to sell, and leave the rest for you to deal with. Our goal is to manage and complete the entire process for you, giving back your precious time.
As part of our services, we meticulously go through every room in the property, collating and organising the items found within. We then catalogue them (if requested), and decide whether each item is cost-effective to sell, should be donated, or should be thrown away.
Once the property is clear, we prepare it for sale by deep clearing, completing maintenance, landscaping, and renovating (if required).
We take care of every single item, including deceased estate furniture, fine art, jewellery, silverware, collectables such as dolls, stamps, and coins or vast collections. Our experience with selling items and our extensive network of contacts allows us to achieve a sound market price for every single item, taking a little pressure away from you.
Family disagreements are common when dealing with an estate, and can be challenging to navigate. To put everyone at ease, we develop a comprehensive service outline that explains everything we do for you. This creates a solid foundation that helps your family members to feel reassured about the whole process we are undertaking.
Our services vary based on the property, and your objectives. In most cases, our fees are between 0.5% and 1% of the property value. This cost gives you peace of mind knowing that the situation is being handled with care, respect, and integrity of the highest standard
We understand that some homes are not as organised as others, especially after a lifetime of collecting things. Our team will methodically and respectfully work through your loved one’s property, no matter how cluttered it may seem.
We have cleared hoarders homes, derelict homes, and biohazardous homes in various stages. We work with professionals who can visit the home before we enter to undertake chemical, rodent or general bio spray.
We don’t run auctions, but if some of your family member’s items will sell best at auction, we can arrange for them to be sold there. After years selling various types of items, we know which selling channels to use to get the best financial return, whether auctions, online stores, or through our vast network of buyers.