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Mobility Friendly Homes
At Reid+Dean we are pleased to announce an estate agency service that specialises in accessible and adapted property. If you are looking for a home where easy access is important to you then our Mobility Friendly Homes service may meet your requirements. If you are looking to buy or sell such a property, then Reid+Dean are definitely the agents who can help you.
What is a Mobility Friendly Home?
To qualify as a Mobility Friendly Home a property must fall into one of the following categories:
- Accessible
- Off-street or unrestricted on-street parking within 25 metres
- No steps between the point where a car could be parked and the entrance to the property (although there may be a slope).
- Level access to at least one entrance to the property. The entrance may incorporate an access ramp or a small threshold or a maximum of one step which can be readily ramped.
- Level access to all main living floor rooms.
- A WC on the same level as the entrance to the property or lift access to a WC on another floor.
- Adapted
- The property contains fixed equipment or adaptations designed to meet the needs of someone with a physical or other disability, such as a visual impairment.
- Accessible and Adapted
- The property meets the access criteria and, in addition, has one or more adaptations or items of equipment designed to meet the needs of someone with a physical or other impairment.
There are many millions of people in the country who consider themselves disabled. That is a huge number of people with homes to sell and very few of those come to the open market mainly due to the fact that people do not know how to where to sell or let them. Reid+Dean are part of a network developing this new specialist agency service. When selling adapted homes most agencies totally ignore the presence of ramps, handrails, lifts or special equipment when producing their sales details. On some occasions they will not even take on a property until such features are removed. What a waste!
This is a simple concept which we are delighted to provide in Eastbourne and the surrounding area, that will be really helpful to people who must find moving home extraordinarily difficult.
Contact our office for further information or log on to www.mobilityfriendlyhomes.co.uk