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Fiancee's Mortgage, My Deposit....
Hi, after a bit of advice.... We are buying a house with the mortgage in my girlfriends name , as i already have a house in mine. I am paying the deposit and will be paying half of the bills every month. We are going to get an agreement drawn up to save any possible grief in the future, as to who gets what if we split. Do…
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HELP! with sole agency agreements
help - we are 'for sale' & we have an agent in place with a sole agency agreement. to be honest - they havn't been doing much.... when i was outside the other day an elderly guy was looking at our cottage and as i had just done a viewing that the estate agent had arranged (and the place was tidy!) - i showed him round. he…
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Wooden houses
Has anyone here got any experience with wooden houses as they seem to be a big thing at the moment and I would like to know more about them before I get my own house sorted? Anyone got any comments or suggestions?
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Property Auctions for Scottish Residential Properties
Are there any specifically for Scotland ? The rest of the country seems to be pretty well covered from what I can see. Can anyone provide any details or web-links ?
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Buying a new house before youve sold the old one...
Hi, for a few reasons that i wont trouble you with my wife and i are moving house and buying a house before we have sold the one we are in at the moment. It is more than likely that we will be in the new one and the old one still wont be sold or possibly even under offer. My question is - because we would have 2 houses -…
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Forgotten what happens next....
Hello, I have accepted the offer and instructed a solicitor - now what? Who pays for the survey these days?
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Council Tax??
Just a quickie Am about to exchange tomorrow on a property that has not depended on the sale of our current house which we intend to live in until we have sold. Does anyone know if you still have to pay council tax if you are not living in the property?? Thanks in advance.
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Independant advisor fee's????
My daughter is buying her first house, she has been accepted for a mortgage on the condidtion that the damp proof work is carried out before the money is released. Anyway, she has used the financial advisor that is based at the Estate agents who was selling the property. He has been a great help to her but when she called…
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Cracks, subsidence - selling house - what to do now?
Hi all, I need to know what to do now. Our house is a 2 bed mid terrace. There are diagonal cracks in the plaster in the kitchen wall. These cracks have been in the wall since we bought the house ( i know we should have had them checked out when we bought but we didn't know any better - very stupid FTBs). The cracks…
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House purchase....whats next
Hello, I have a number of query's for you all. 1. I've purchased a property for £115000, lenders valuation came back with a £1000 retention, but valuing the property at £116000 ! Why have they done that? 2. I have asked owner about boiler and gas fire's etc, if they are all in working order and have heard nothing back from…
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Renting Out Our House ???
HI I NEED SOME HELP. we are going to be renting our house out through an agent as we are going to be moving out of the area hopefully long term. We have a mortgage for £70k on the property worth about £180k . we will need £20k on top to help us set up our venture. Should get around £600 ... £650 per month less fees. we…
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Selling House - Soicitors Fees
I'm in the process of buying a new house and part exchnging mine with the developer. This is my first house sale as when I bought this house I was a FTB. I've just had a quote from the solicitor on how much the conveyacing costs will be and this is what confuses me: According to the quote, they're going to charge me approx…
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Flat Pack Homes in Glasgow
‘Garden suburb’ to get flat-pack homes Swedish furniture manufacturer Ikea is to provide flat-pack homes for a regeneration scheme planned in Glasgow. Glasgow City Council has named development consortium New City Vision as the group who will regenerate 124 acres in the west of the city, dubbed as Scotland's first "garden…
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Daily Mail - Centre pages - 14/9/05
djohn2002uk may yawn again, but I think this is a very interesting article, and makes a refreshing change from the usual mantras of :- "Buy now before you miss the boat" - "Buy now and your property will rise 50% in 3 months" and "Rent is dead money"…
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Property Auctions
Are there any free sources available out there that detail property auctions (particularly in London)? Many thanks in advance
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Purchasing A Council Property
We currently live in a three bedroomed semi and are looking to downsize via an exchange. I'm quite fussy about where I want to move to and the long term plan is to purchase the property we move to. I have found a nice flat which had a sales value of £87,000 which with the discount would make it extremely affordable.…
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Areas of concern from valuation report HELP!
We are trying to buy a house and have had an offer accepted at 200K on 224950 on 2 conditions 1) complete by end of month (offered accepted 5th Sept) and 2) property staying on market for 'back up' buyers to view only (estate agent has taken it off website and it making it clear that a sale is proceeding). Our problem is…
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House Buying/Co Ownership
Destperate for some good advice................ :confused: I am a 29 year old single girl who works as Audio Typist in the local hospital. I only earn £11,419 per annum but with all the talk lately about buying houses and what a waste it is to rent i have been thinking alot lately about whether i should look into buying. I…
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Trevor McDonald's Tonight programme - Reposession, Reposession, Reposession.
Did anybody see the programme last night ? ITV 8pm between Corries Has the mainstream media finally woken up to the UK's debt crisis and the biggest property bubble ever ? Anybody see it, what are your views on the matter or the programme ?
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Draft Contract Timescales - Please Advise!
We completed a house a few weeks ago now, and the draft contracts still have not been sent to our Solicitor so no searches have been started. The owner passed away and the sale is being handled by 3 daugters, 1 in this country, the other 2 in the USA. All our surveys have been done and we are expecting our motgage offer in…
