Buying in the UK from India comes down to one question: who do you trust on the ground?

Remote buying fails at the verification step

Anyone can send you a portal link. What you cannot do from Mumbai or Delhi is stand in the property, hear the traffic, see the damp patch behind the wardrobe, or read the room in a negotiation. Photographs are marketing. Video calls show what the person holding the phone chooses to show.

The UK process also assumes presence: viewings at short notice, surveyors to instruct, solicitors who post documents, completion days with keys to collect. Without someone accountable on the ground, each step becomes a favour asked of a relative or a leap of faith with a stranger.

What Salet does for remote buyers

• Represents only you. We hold no listings and take nothing from sellers. Our fee comes from you, so our advice answers to you.
• Views and verifies in person. Every shortlisted property is walked, photographed and reported honestly, including the reasons to say no.
• Analyses like an institution. Comparable sales, street-level pricing, leasehold and title flags, realistic running costs.
• Negotiates and progresses. Offer strategy, survey interpretation, solicitor chasing, completion handled.
• Signposts the cross-border practicalities. The identity and source-of-funds documentation UK lawyers will ask of you, and introductions to currency and mortgage specialists. We advise on property; we do not give financial or tax advice.
• Stays after completion. Management oversight and vacant property care are being introduced, so the asset is looked after when you are not here.

One point of contact, in your evening hours

You deal with the founder directly, on WhatsApp and on calls scheduled around the time difference. One person accountable from first call to keys, and afterwards.