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How Long Should I Wait
I had an offer accepted on a house on the 11/08/2006. My own property is due to complete on 20/10/2006. I am currently living elsewhere so my sale doesn't really affect my purchase. The vendor of my new house still hasn't found a suitable property. I had a letter of my solicitor saying that no paper work had been exchanged…
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knocking down the price?
Dear all, My OH and I are buying our first home, a one bedroomed flat in Surrey. There's no chain as we are ftbs and the owner has already moved out. We had our offer accepted last May, but the lease needed to be extended, so it's taking really really long. We are thinking on knocking down the price due to this, as it's…
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btl
hi any suggestions about any lender who is ready to lend money for btl at less then 15% thanks
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Fixtures and fittings list
Just has this through from vendor, bit surprised at some of the things they suddennly want money for that when they showed us the house they said they would include, and we based our offer on, although stupidly didnt state that at the time of offering. They arent things that are stated in the details so they are not…
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www.helpineedboxes.co.uk - Any others? How Many Boxes do I need?
Has anyone used the above site? Can anyone recommend a similiar one which is equally as good/Cheaper? I know I could probably get boxes from supermarkets/shops etc but I simply dont have the time.
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Ground Rent 'bill'
Just received an invoice for Ground rent incuding 'arrears' totalling £10 (it's £2 per year!) from a company I've never heard of (Carter Jonas) and is outside the area, Shrewsbury rather than Manchester. The ground rent collection has changed hands a few times, and each time they've collected yearly for a few years, then…
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Survey Problem??
Hi. We have just had a survey done which was on our property, instructed by our Buyers lenders. While the surveyor was round, i was following him around the house. With this in mind he was telling me what he was finding. We havent heard anything from our buyers yet, but that is unlikely as the surveyor only came a few days…
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Pub talk about expensive new houses in local town.
I went out mountaineous biking tonight with a load of people from work who live in the local town. It's a market town about 15 miles from Bristol, quite attractive, but a bit backwards. House prices have been going a bit mad there; tiny mid 90s 2 bed terrace houses down the road were on the market for £147K last year.…
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A Property Question - Leases
Hey folks, I've been looking around this great site for a few months now, and this is my first post.:T I have a quick question on leases.... I have about 83 years remaining on my property, so am in 2 minds of keeping it/selling it, I've been advised by an estate agent that once the lease goes below 80 years it's difficult…
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Raising a house deposit on ebay...
I've just been sent this by a broker friend homer_J. I'm not sure what I think, if its genuine its tragic, if its a hoax its a bit sick - the question is, should we trust enough to bid? http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Help-me-buy-a-home_W0QQitemZ120035509050QQihZ002QQcategoryZ93847QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem Would appreciate any thoughts!…
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Greedy vendors at offers over
hi - our house is under offer at the moment, and we found a fantastic property that we wanted, and put in an offer last week. The house is on at offers over £335K, and as we're in Scotland we put in an offer of £355K, with a view to going up to £380K - the property is advertised as 6 beds but 3 are tiny, 3 are in the…
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demolition of semi to create access
we currently own a allotment approx 60 x 20 with no access a semi detached house as come up for sale for 90k worth 150k needing 30k to renovate it. i am looking to offer 115k on wednesday with a garden 40 x 10. as knocking this down would create a access, can you see any problem with this or is it just worth just doing up…
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Seller won't move on price after survey.....but I've had no quotes yet!!!
Hi all @ MSE I had an anwserphone message from my EA today. She explained that the vendors are not prepared to move on the asking price as they feel the property was under valued!! The problem is that I haven't sent anybody round yet to get quotes for the likely cost of urgent repairs stated in the survey. I'm quite…
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Accepted offer on purchase house, mine not sold yet!!
I recently put in an offer on a house which has been accepted, however, my house has not been sold yet. I need to sell my house in order to purchase the new one. The vendor is aware of this and states she is in no hurry to move out as she is looking for a property to rent. My question is this: I am VERY keen to purchase…
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unbelievable landlord behaviour
Couldn't believe this but true. OH's firm had a young worker from overseas. She found accomodation and the firm took out the AST. Worker goes on holiday for two weeks and comes back to flat to find the landlord has let someone else live in the flat for the 2 weeks she was away! She got back today to find a dirty bathroom,…
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advice please
Hi all Need a bit of advice? We recently viewed a property which is up for sale privately at 265k. We liked the house (3 bed detached on a main rd)but is not worth anything like that amount. We put in an offer for 248k and whilst it was not instantly accepted,nor was it rejected. The Vendor has stated that he would help us…
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capital gains tax on selling property
Anyone help with advice on tax on a second property? Basically we have a second property which we brought for £52,500 5 years ago, we have coverted it into 3 flats and it is now worth £300,000. We have been initially told that capital gain tax would be applied to most the profits on it at 40%, the precentage decreasing…
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Deposit for house I am currently buying
Im just going through the house buying process. Had the survey done on my new property, and everything is being processed quite speedily through the solicitors. However, I asked the estate agent if the vendor would be willing to take the house off the market, now that he knows we are committed to buying. He has agreed, but…
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Joseph Rowntree Report States Mortgage costs for first time buyers reached 1990 peak
see report http://www.jrf.org.uk/knowledge/findings/housing/1933.asp it also states that we need to build 220,000 new homes a year between now and 2021....were currently building 150,000.....therefore if we carry on as we are then in 15 years time we'll have an under supply of over 1 million homes!!!!!! which way will…
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council RTB??
hi, thinking of maybe buying my council house under the RTB scheme, has anybody any experience of this , pitfalls and how long the process will take etc? thanks
