As of 13 August 2026, AI can only partly sell an inherited property.

What to actually do

1. Hand it to a person

   The route this page recommends

   Someone with a licence or accountable authority has to sign this before it counts.

2. Use a tool built for this

   Second choice

3. Do it yourself

   The distant third

   A chat interface, chat-fluent skill, and roughly 2 hours until you can act on the result.

   How to actually do it

   1. Open the will, any grant of probate or other estate authority, the Land Registry title information, mortgage letters and property correspondence, and make a list of the documents you actually hold.
   2. Ask a chatbot to turn those documents and facts into the checklist and missing-information table in the prompt, removing names, addresses, account numbers and other unnecessary personal data first.
   3. Open GOV.UK and check the chatbot's basic statements about probate, executors, selling property and reporting estate matters, recording the relevant official pages beside each statement.
   4. Send the drafted questions and the document list to a solicitor or conveyancer who handles probate property sales, asking them to confirm who has authority to sell and what must happen before marketing.
   5. Ask a local estate agent for a market appraisal only after the solicitor or conveyancer confirms that the property can be marketed, and compare their proposed fees and sale terms yourself.
   6. Give the conveyancer the final property, title, probate and sale information, and use the chatbot only to organise correspondence and explain unfamiliar wording without accepting its legal or tax interpretation.

   Prompt

   I am an executor or beneficiary dealing with the sale of an inherited property in England or Wales. Help me organise the process, but do not give legal, tax or financial conclusions and do not present assumptions as facts. Use only the information I provide and clearly label anything missing, uncertain or requiring confirmation.
   
   Facts and documents available:
   - Country and property location: [England, Wales or other UK jurisdiction]
   - My role and the names of the executors: [details]
   - Whether probate or the relevant estate authority has been obtained: [details]
   - What the will or intestacy position says about the property: [details]
   - Property address and ownership information: [details]
   - Mortgage, charges, tenants or other occupiers: [details]
   - Known beneficiaries and any disagreement: [details]
   - Estate agent or conveyancer already appointed: [details]
   - Relevant letters, forms or extracts from official documents: [paste text or describe files]
   
   Produce:
   1. A dated, ordered checklist from confirming authority to sell through completion and distributing the proceeds.
   2. A list of missing documents and facts, grouped into probate, title, property, tax and sale administration.
   3. A table showing which questions should go to the conveyancer, solicitor, estate agent, HMRC or another official source.
   4. A short, neutral email to a UK conveyancer asking them to confirm whether the estate is ready to market and what could prevent exchange or completion.
   5. A separate list of statements you cannot verify and must not rely on without professional confirmation.
   
   Do not choose an estate agent, set a price, calculate tax, interpret the will, decide who owns the property, or tell me that I can proceed. Remind me that this is not professional advice and that a solicitor or conveyancer must confirm the legal position before I market or sell the property. Do not request or repeat unnecessary personal data.

   Open it prefilled in ChatGPT or Claude, or copy it into Gemini, which takes no prefill link.