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Our Offer accepted but we have no buyer yet !
I put my property on the market 5 weeks ago - but no offers yet. However, I have found a house that is perfect. Have viewed 3 times and had a few lengthy conversations with the vendor. He is building a new property fairly close by which won't be ready until March 2007. He has turned an offer down already as the proposed…
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Auctioneers - charges
Does anyone know what percentage an auctioneer would take for selling house or land. Thanks
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Thinking Of Moving To Lanzarote - What Advice Can You Give Me Please
Posted this earlier under 'moving to Spain' thread but only had one reply which was extremely useful. I'm sure there must be loads of info so have started a different thread. For a couple of years we've been thinking about moving to Lanzarote but not given it a lot of serious thought. We love the place - been there lots of…
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Saving on fees/downsizing/reducing mortgage and outgoings
We currently have an interest-only mortgage in my husbands name. We want to sell our foreign property (fully paid for but taking its time to sell so this may necessitate a smaller repayment mortgage until such time as the sale goes through), pay off the UK mortgage and have the deeds logged in our joint names. Also we are…
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Buy to let on 1st house
Some advice please. We wish to purchase our first house and rent it out. We currently live in a house that is part of my job, so we do not want to live in the new house but wish to get our foot on the ladder. Looking at buy to let mortgages they assume that you are buying a second property and ask for 20-25% deposit. Can…
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Dispute / complaint question.
Say I brought a property, to which there were no declared disputes, yet, after I'd moved in, I then found out that there had been complaints, all logged with the environment health, police, etc whatever. So, I then wanted to take legal action against the seller, but I didnt know where she lived? Is there anything I could…
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Faults with house,buyer's sols. denying liability
hi all, moved in 3 weeks ago to house(property is in Scotland),informed the solicitor within 4 days (you have 5 days to raise any problems) about the following problems: 1. electrical cupboard is a deathtrap,wires dangling everywhere,old boxes not removed/covered etc. 2. 3 of the windows do not operate properly,and are a…
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Damp found in survey, what do I do? (long post)
We are trying to buy a 1890's end terrace for £320k. The building survey came back OK with nothing substantial to worry about. However, it did say this; "It is apparent remedial damp proofing works have been carried out in the past (there being evidence of injection holes externally), however it has not been wholly…
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Selling empty house should I 'dress' it or leave it empty?
Hi all, I'm going to put my house on the market soon but it isn't where I live so it is currently standing completely empty? Obviously I would like the best price for it so wondered should I do a bit of dresing up or should I just leave it empty so buyers can use their own imagination. I have very limited funds so would…
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When Do you get to view property
Two weeks ago I had a day off work .I went to the estate agent and asked about veiwing a house .They said all viewings had to be done during the day ,no evening viewing and no weekend viewing .There where no offers on the property I was interested in .It was arranged I could view the house Last Monday at 5.30pm .So I had…
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Gazumping....
....does this still go on? it's just happened to a colleague - she was trying to buy a small house at £7 K under the asking price, then on the day before they were supposed to exchange, the vendor suddenly annonced that they'd had a better offer from someone else. She's still trying to get the house, becasue sh'es ready…
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putting in an offer for a reposession!
Hi guys, just found a really nice house which has been reposessed and want to put in an offer.....do i put it in now or wait for the notice to go in the paper (with the highest offer)and then offer????? just dont want to lose it either way if i put in the asking price now...it will then go in the paper with that offer and…
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World cup slowing housing market
My place has been on the market for the past 4 weeks, and the viewings have already dried up. I have spoken to the estate agent, and they have said they are really quiet at the moment due to the football (and the good weather) and its nothing to worry about. Is anyone else finding this, or is this estate agent feeding me a…
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Buyer threatening to pull out
My blt buyer emailed me today, berating me for the time my solicitor is taking, its been 2 weeks since he got mort approval. He has threatened to pull out if I am not quicker. I told him to let me know if he wanted to pull out now, as I would remarket asap.....8 hours later nothing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Thinking about buying in seaham
hello Thinking about buying in Seaham as an investmnet. I think that the June addition of location, Location may have had an article on it, does anybody have it, what does it say or can anybody offer advice on buying in this area. Thanks Elaine
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Property to renovate
hello I am looking for a property to renovate, does anybody know how to get access to information on properties for sale that meet this criteria I did sign up for renovate alerts, which gave information, but after a few months it got expensive to subscribe, as you pay per month per region. Any help would be appreciated.…
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Re-direction of mail
We are completion in the next week so I’ve just set up Royal Mail's re-direction service, but just in case a letter slips through and gets delivered to the old address, would you leave your forwarding address for the new buyers? I just a little wary of supplying this address to them - what if they weren't happy with…
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settlement in extension
The survey done on the house which I am selling recommended a structural report on a crack between the main building (old cottage) and an extension - the crack was there when I moved in a number of years ago and, as far as I am aware is no worse. There are absolutely no cracks inside the house. Would it help me sell the…
