North East House Buyers
5.0/ 5 · 6 reviews
Unit 106 - Design Works Annexe, Design Works Business Centre, William St, Felling, Gateshead NE10 0JP, UK
- Phone
- 0191 462 0160
- Website
- northeasthousebuyers.co.uk
Real Estate Agency · Gateshead
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Real estate agencies
Businesses recorded in the directory under the real estate agencies category. Compiled from published business data — inclusion is not an endorsement.
- Waste taken to licensed transfer stations
- Careful, discreet crews
- Itemised inventory for probate
- Free no-obligation assessment
- London-wide, 7 days by arrangement
- Businesses listed
- 1
- Average published score
- 5 / 5
- Reviews counted
- 6
- With phone / website
- 1 / 1
Listings (1)
Ordered by published review score, then by review volume. Inclusion is not an endorsement and no listing is paid for.
About real estate agencies
Real estate agencies: what this page covers
This page collects the 1 business recorded in the directory under the real estate agencies category. Categories come from the source data rather than from any judgement of ours, which means a few entries sit in a category that reads oddly at first glance; the profile page for each one shows what the business actually publishes about itself so you can decide whether it fits what you need.
Across the 1 listing shown here the average published score is 5 out of 5, drawn from 6 reviews in total.
Who is listed under real estate agencies
Businesses indexed here include North East House Buyers. Each name links to a profile page carrying the address on record, the category, the review figures, the phone number and website where published, and any company registration details that could be matched to a public registry record.
All the entries in this grouping are recorded in Gateshead. Coverage areas usually extend well beyond the address on record, so a firm listed in a neighbouring town may still be the right call for the property you are dealing with.
How to read a listing before you call
Every listing on this page shows the same fields, which makes them easy to compare side by side: the trading name, the town or city recorded against the business, the category it was found under, the review score and review count captured when the data was collected, a phone number where one was published, and the website domain where the business runs one. Where a registered company name, company number, VAT number or registered office address was found, those appear on the individual profile page along with the registry that holds the record. Where nothing was found, the field is simply left out rather than filled with a guess.
Treat the scores as a starting point rather than a verdict. A five-star average built on a single review tells you far less than a 4.7 built on eighty, and neither figure says anything about how a firm will handle a bereaved family's property. Use the numbers to shortlist, then judge on the conversation: whether the firm asks about access and stairs, whether it offers to attend the property before quoting, and whether it will put the price in writing.
Questions worth asking any clearance firm
Ask whether the company holds a waste carrier registration and whether it will give you the waste transfer notes afterwards. That paperwork matters to executors, because responsibility for the estate's waste does not end when the van drives away. Ask what happens to items that might have value, whether anything is offset against the price, and how that offset is evidenced. Ask who actually attends: some firms subcontract, and the crew on the day may not be the people you spoke to.
Insurance is the other question people forget. Goods in transit cover, public liability cover and employers' liability cover are all relevant when strangers are carrying furniture down a communal staircase. A firm that answers those questions plainly, without deflecting, is usually a firm that has been asked them before. If a quotation arrives with no breakdown, no access assumptions and no mention of what is excluded, ask for one that has them.
Probate clearances need a paper trail
A probate or bereavement clearance is not the same job as an end-of-tenancy clean-out, even when the van and the crew look identical. The executor or administrator is accountable for the contents of the estate, which means documents, jewellery, cash, share certificates, war medals and photographs all need finding and separating before anything is loaded. A firm that understands probate will search systematically — drawers, pockets, mattresses, lofts, the backs of wardrobes and the insides of books — and hand you what it finds rather than deciding for you what matters.
Anything that might carry value should be itemised so the estate can consider it, and nothing should go to disposal without the executor's approval. Where contents need a formal figure for the estate account, that is a valuation job and belongs with a valuer rather than a clearance crew, though many firms will work alongside one. Keeping the two roles separate protects the executor if the account is ever queried.
Timing, access and what drives the price
Volume is only part of what a clearance costs. Access usually matters more: a ground-floor flat with a van space outside is a different job from a third-floor conversion with no lift, a shared entrance and a controlled parking zone that needs a permit or bay suspension arranged days in advance. Stairs, narrow doorways, restricted loading hours, red routes and estate access rules all change the crew size and the number of trips, and any of them can double the hours a property takes.
Disposal costs are the other half of the arithmetic. Licensed disposal is charged by weight and by material, and some items — fridges, mattresses, paint, tyres, electricals — carry their own handling rules. Items suitable for reuse or donation reduce that cost, which is why firms with charity and reuse partnerships often quote more competitively. Ask for the assumptions behind the quotation so you can see which of these applies to the property you are dealing with.
About this data
The listings here were compiled from published business data: trading names, addresses, phone numbers, websites, categories and review figures, together with company registration details where a public registry record could be matched to the business. Confidence in that match is recorded honestly on each profile — high, medium, low, or simply absent — and matches that could not be confirmed are marked as unconfirmed rather than presented as verified.
Inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement, a recommendation or a statement about the quality of any firm's work, and no listed business has paid for its entry. Details change: companies close, move, rebrand and change hands, and review scores move constantly. Always confirm current details directly with the business before instructing it, and tell us if you spot something out of date so the record can be corrected.
Using this category sensibly
A score band or a category is a filter, not a shortlist. Two or three firms from this page, each asked the same questions about insurance, waste carrier registration, itemising and timings, will tell you far more than the star ratings do. Written quotations that set out the same assumptions can then be compared honestly against one another.
We are a London probate clearance company ourselves, and this directory is published because executors kept asking us for names outside our own coverage area. If the property is in Greater London or just inside the M25 we would be glad to quote for it; if it is not, use the listings here as a starting point and hold whoever you call to the same standards set out above.
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