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Avoiding Capital Gains Tax??
Hi all new user here! Having just bought my first house at the age of 25 which is a bit of a wreck! I am planning on doing it up and then selling it making a profit, and moving onto another to do the same. As each house I renovate will be my main residence will I be except from capital gains tax? Taking into account that…
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Who bought the whole street?
whats this mean?http://www.nethouseprices.com/index.php?con=sold_prices_street_detail&locality=&town=MOTHERWELL&street=BIRRENS+ROAD&year=&house_style=&land=&house_age=&house_type=&order=&postcode=&search_radius=&land=&cCode=SC&eastingToSearch=&northingToSearch=&start_limit=0&curPage=1 has some organisation bought the whole…
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moveandsave.co.uk - anyone used them?
Hi I am just about to put a property on the market and have seen an estage agent called moveandsave.co.uk - they only charge £149+vat for selling your house which would be much less than using one of the chains of estate agents. They seem ok but I wondered if any of you have experience of using them? I'd appreciate any…
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How long to completion did it take you?
Well what I thought would happen has!!!! We have had an ongoing saga since March when we got our offer on our house.Our buyers hadn't sold yet, but did within 2 weeks and we found the house we loved straight away and had our offer accepted middle of April. Our vendors at the time said they would move to their property in…
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How much for Asbestos Removal
THe 1930's house we are loking to buy has a small kitchen lard about the size of a phonebox. We were planning to knock this out to make the small kitchen bigger, but had been advised that the lard has Asbestos lining on the walls that would need to be removed. Anyone have anything similar done, and an idea of costings to…
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How much for new Damp Proof Course.
We have a three bed 1930's semi house we are looking at buying and have been advised that the house needs new Damp Proof Course. Can anyone give me a rough idea what kind of figure we may be talking about here?
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Timing worries
We've just had an offer accepted on our first time buy and things seem to be going too fast. The problem is, we were only able to get a 95% mortgage and have no savings. I thought that the best thing to do would be to extend an existing graduate loan but when I rang them up they said that they wouldn't be able to until I'd…
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Rent Plus
A new scheme i have joined with my housing association,Notting Hill, Rentplus. Every month i pay extra £45 and i agree to do minor repairs to my property. This saves the housing associton money on contractors to carry out repair work. For this after a year if i havent called out the repair team only for major repairs like…
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Old house sale details
Hi Guys Does anyone know how to get hold of old rightmove web pages house adverts, ive tried searching in google hoping to find a cahed page but havnt had any luck
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Should I sack the EA?
The EA I chose came out on Monday to take pictures of our house. The house went on to the main website propertynews.com with a picture of the front of the house but no other pictures and no description of the property. It is Thursday night and this is still the case. I am very concerned for 2 reasons: - The EA phoned on…
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stamp duty question - please help!
hi, would somebody(ies) be so kind as to help me with this; it's really concerning me. my solicitor is going to fill out the SDLT form on our behalf. she has given me some notes, which all solicitors are obliged to do, explaining what stamp duty is, and the threshold at which it is paid; the bog standard stuff which i do…
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House Survey undervalues house by £20k What Now!
Sorry for the long post, but I would appriciate if people could take the time to read this and advise where we go from here. We have found a lovely 1920's house that needs total monderisation. The original owners have going into a nursing home and the family are selling the now vacant house. The house was originally valued…
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estate agent contracts praying on elderly
Our neighbour whose husband has recently died wishes to sell her house to move somewhere smaller.weve just learnt she signed up with a local estate agent who gave her the top estimate way above what we think the house will sell for.in fact she had 3 quotes ranging from 320k to their estimate of 595k.She also signed their…
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Joint mortgage with mother - tax implications of sale?
I hope this is the right place - feel free to move or suggest a repost. In 2000 I bought my flat. I wasn't earning enough to be granted a mortgage in my own right even though I could afford the mortgage so my mum took out the mortgage jointly with me so the bank would consider her salary as well and therefore lend us the…
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Completion at different times
Bare with me on this. My friend & Girlfriend are selling the house that they own to buy their own properties. Still as a couple but not living in the house together, he is with his parents but pays half the mortgage. They have sold the house STC & found properties of their own. My friend is porting the current mortgage…
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Sealed Bids - OIRO
As first-time buyers my boyfriend and I recently saw a house which was on the market as OIRO 155k. 155k was right at the top of our budget, but the area was so good that we went to look around. To cut a long, anxious story short, we offered the asking price and were informaed that ten offers had been made in it's first…
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conveyancing-warehouse.com or Estate Agents solicitors for £300 more?
Just wondered if anyone can recommend the above? Were they quick? Basically, were selling our home and buying our new home both with the same estate agent and have the option of using "theyre" solicitors for a total fee of: £2492.20 (Includes stamp Duty) Or conveyancing-warehouse.com can do it for £2,201.13. Is it worth…
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OS and submitting extension plans
Hope this is the right board...apologies if not. We want to build an extension and have done all the building plans ourselves. We want to submit the plans, but can't yet as we need to have a plan of the area within 100m of our house at a scale of 1:1250. Our house was only built 6 months ago, so OS maps of the area don't…
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Conveyancing Fee's
Hi We are helping my mother in law to buy a little retirement flat , and was a little suprised with the cost of the conveyancing. Although the standard fee is £395 + vat when you add on the additional costs like admin costs, local authority searches, enviromental searches etc the total cost of the quote is £1450. Does this…
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utterly disillusioned
im in my late twenties and live in the south west. i earn £16k a year which is about average where i live. i work with computers and am good at my job. i cant find a house or flat for less than £120k. ive come to the conclusion ill never be able to afford anywhere. is anyone else bitter about living in a day and age where…
