Glossary
Glossary of clearance and probate terms
The words and phrases that appear most often across this site, counted from our own pages and explained in plain English. Closely related forms — plurals and verb endings — are merged into a single entry.
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| clearance | unigram | 7,161 | Emptying a property of its contents, sorting what is kept, sold, donated, recycled or disposed of. |
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| property | unigram | 5,685 | The house, flat or other premises being cleared or administered as part of an estate. |
| probate | unigram | 4,261 | The legal process of proving a will and getting authority to deal with someone's estate. |
| item | unigram | 3,500 | A single object in the property — furniture, effects, valuables or general household goods. |
| estate | unigram | 3,360 | Everything a person owned at death: property, money, possessions and debts. |
| executor | unigram | 2,010 | The person named in a will who is responsible for administering the estate. |
| house | unigram | 1,985 | A residential property; in this context usually the home being cleared. |
| professional | unigram | 1,902 | Carried out by trained, insured people working to a documented standard. |
| london | unigram | 1,881 | The service area — Greater London boroughs and their postcode districts. |
| valuation | unigram | 1,573 | An assessment of what contents or a property are worth, often for probate or tax. |
| service | unigram | 1,538 | A defined piece of work offered, such as a probate clearance or deep clean. |
| value | unigram | 1,495 | What an item or estate is worth, usually judged at open market prices. |
| legal | unigram | 1,451 | Relating to the law and the duties that bind executors and clearance firms. |
| process | unigram | 1,370 | The ordered steps a clearance or probate matter moves through. |
| insurance | unigram | 1,350 | Cover protecting a property, its contents or the clearance work itself. |
| home | unigram | 1,301 | The place someone lived; often the main asset in an estate. |
| family | unigram | 1,237 | Relatives involved in decisions about a property and its contents. |
| probate clearance | bigram | 1,113 | Clearing a property whose contents form part of an estate going through probate. |
| house clearance | bigram | 1,079 | Emptying a residential property of all its contents. |
| content | unigram | 1,015 | The possessions inside a property, taken together. |
| cost | unigram | 983 | The price of the work, driven by volume, access and disposal. |
| asset | unigram | 875 | Anything of value in an estate, from a property to a share certificate. |
| furniture | unigram | 850 | Large household items — the bulk of most clearance volume. |
| team | unigram | 840 | The trained crew who attend and carry out the clearance. |
| document | unigram | 832 | Paperwork found or produced during a clearance, from deeds to waste notes. |
Frequencies are counted from the editorial pages of this site, with markup and common stop words removed. They show where our writing puts its emphasis — they are not search volumes.
About the author
Mariusz Baran
Founder & Owner
Mariusz Baran is the founder and owner of Probate Clearance London, We Clear Everything London Ltd and House and Office Clearance Ltd. He has extensive hands-on experience in probate, bereavement and general property clearance across Greater London.
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