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Extending Garden - Adverse Possession
I have extended my garden by about 3-4 meters and have used and maintained this ground for the last 10 years (fence and shed on it). The ground belongs to a much larger area that has not been maintained since I moved into the house 10 years ago. Although it is registered as belonging to someone. Does anyone know how easy…
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Property Documents
I received a letter today from my mortgage company with all of the documents relating to my house. According to the covering letter the Land Registry now hold the information electronically so the bank do not need to keep the paper copies. Does anybody have any (polite) suggestions of what I should do with these? Is it…
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Stamp duty and home exchange
Hi I would appreciate your opinion about stamp duty in Home exchange situation. I am buying a new property priced at £ 295 000 and this is in home exchange. Builder is buying mine for £ 175 000. The difference is about £ 120 000. What will be my situation regarding stamp duty - will it be 3% or on the difference. Averi
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Buying the Mother In-Laws Council House
Is it possible to buy my Mother In-Law's House? She has lived there for quite some time, & it was a council house, now its a housing association House, & she is entitled to about 50% Discount. I live in an area where house prices a far higher then normal in terms of average wages, & I am unable to fund a mortgage for…
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FTB: How Much Should We Offer
We are looking to bid on a ground floor flat which has asking price of 199,950. Owner originally accepted an offer of 196k in January, but buyer pulled out because of some rising damp. Owner took it off market, and put it back on a month ago. Damp proofers say it will take 1,300 to put right. Owner is keen to move, and we…
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25 viewings is the game up?
We've had the property on the market with sole agent in London with a 'For Sale' board for 12 weeks. We'd had 25 viewings and 3 offers ( 2 are still on the table ). The highest is 20k shy of the asking price (290k) and still 5k short of our budget needed for the next property. We're in no rush to sell, but do you reckon…
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Housing market continues to slow....
Back to our favourtie topic - HOUSE PRICES ! According to the latest reports .. House price inflation has continued to slow dropping from 7% to 5% in May 05, this as last years mad house bidding frenzy moves out of the indices... We are fast approaching the critical point when year on year house price inflation turns…
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cheaper legal costs
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My success selling online
After attempting to sell my home for 4 months via a local estate agent I thought id try selling privately over the web. Used www.getterbetterhome.co.uk as they charged £79 for a listing with lots of photos and advertising on all the usual sites (propertyfinder, telegraph etc..) received information from 4 people in the…
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Property price at stamp duty threshold
The property I am hoping to buy is around £125k and the agent is asking the interested parties for final offers on the property. As this is the stamp duty threshold, are there any ways to basically pay a slightly higher amount, but avoid stamp duty?
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2 houses - CGT?
I'm not sure whether this or the Cutting Tax section is more appropriate, but here we go. My granny owns a house. In the next few days she is buying a flat, as well as the house. She will move into the flat, and then sell the house. I know that you don't pay capital gains tax on your primary residence. But because she will…
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unsupported breasts!
Ha! Got your attention. ;) We have heard from friends that surveyors are picking up on houses where chimney breasts have been removed, and are not supported by RSJ's. Our chimney breast was removed before we bought this house.. our original survey (25 years ago) said nothing about it, so we didn't have any work done. Are…
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buying a new build - can we sell our deposit
we are currently in the middle of buying a new build house (which so far has taken two years). We have paid a 5% deposit. Because it's taken so long to build (!!) the house is now worth £20k more than we are paying for it. If we wanted to buy another house now can we sell our deposit for more than we put down?? does that…
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What is it with the 'Sticks' when it comes to online property?
We're selling our maisonette in London and moving out of town, but are currenty incredibly frustrated as it seems that Estate Agents (and private vendors for that matter) haven't got a clue about how to market a property online. This makes our search for the next move arduous as it means we have to visit these places and…
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Inside Track
Does anyone have any experience of Inside Track. Recived a flyer through the post yesterday claiming they can teach you how to successfully invest in property. They offer a free 2 hour workshop on how to purchase property at 30% below market value, beating the estate agents, purchsing with minimum cash deposit ++ Their…
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Scam?
I post on another board where there are many people trying to sell their houses, several of which have mentioned a scam they are aware of / have been victim to (one woman just posted at the weekend that this has happened to her). Basically they accept an offer from someone who says their brother / uncle / whoever is going…
