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Typical Edinburgh estate agency fees?
Hello all Was wondering if anyone has any idea of what Edinburgh agents might be charging? I have read the advice in the stickies above, but as most Edinburgh property viewings seem to be by open-house with little involvement by the agent, I am wondering if perhaps they have a lower fee than elsewhere. (Probably wishful…
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The best way to move... packing etc
Hey everyone, hope your all ok, and I appologise now if there is a more relevant place for this post to go. Ive never moved house before, well my family did when i was 10 so i wasnt involved much, and also, I have when i was at uni and now lived in rented, but until now only had a room and a few extra bits to move. Now we…
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Simultaneous Exchange/Completion... Erk!
Well, the completion date is set for this Friday, but we've been forced into a simultaneous exchange and completion as our buyers have no deposit (in fact, they are borrowing 102%). As we have equity in our house and our buyers have no savings to their name, our solicitor said that he simply could not allow us to exchange…
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stamp duty...why is it? and not like this?
with stamp duty..its in levels.. from houses from £0 to £125,000 = 0 % £125,001- £250,000 = 1% Over £250,000- £500,000 3% Over £500,000 4% why isn't it like our tax system.. e.g, if the house is 150,000 ..= 150,000-125,000 = 25,000 therefore 25,000 x 1% = £250 and so on.. what do u think?
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can you find out what year a house was built from an address?
anywhere online?
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buying and selling what to do
Okay guys the buying and selling lark is all new to me, we live in our first house since 89 so have acrued some equity. We now need to move to a bigger house, a 3 bedroom semi from a 2 up 2 down mid terraced. I have had house valued early this year however I am going to get some update valuation, although I dont expect…
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Joint mortgage with brother for sister to rent
Hi I'm just looking for a little bit of advice, hope someone can help. My sister was recently re-housed 50 miles away with her 3 children after problems with her boyfriend. None of them have settled there and she has no money to move. She's put her name down to be transferrred closer to other family, but being on DSS she's…
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Hoop Iron
Hi :j Hope someone can help me, I am currently buying a house and mortgage company has said they wont lend on house unless i have a valid hoop iron certificate. I cant seem to find anything about this or what it is. Can someone please help/enlighten me? :confused:
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Help if possible please
Hi I am a first time buyer, to cut a long story short(i hope) my boyfriend and i currently earn about 29,000 a year between (sad I know!) he also gets 100 a month from his dad, I currently live in rented property and he lives at his parents due to space and saving money, we have 20,000 deposit and can get a bit more if…
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The race to be in for Christmas!
Hi everyone who has had an offer accepted recently (late September and October), Just thought I will post this thread as a bit of a 'support' group for those hoping to get into their new place for Christmas! My story can be seen in my sig and currently, we are waiting for all the searches to finish before we can talk…
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Which survey?
Sorry to ask another survey question but we are in the process of hopefully buying a repossession which was built in the 1970's. We had decided to just have the valuation which is taking place this Friday but we are now having doubts as to whether we should change this to a homebuyers report. The reason we didnt choose…
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Survey Report
Surveyor went out to a property we have put a bid on today. Just wondering how we will receive the report / result back? Will the surveying company sent it to the mortgage provider, the mortgage broker or us? How will we hear the results?
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What will happen?
I am going through the house buying process, I thought we were nearly at the point of exchange, but now our solicitor has written to us with a copy letter she has sent to the people we are buying from's solicitors, asking them for information. Basically there are a couple of parts of walls that have been taken down within…
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Huge problem...PLEASE HELP!
Hi everyone, I really hope you can help with my problem. Tomorrow I would have had to go in to the agency I will be renting though from Novermber. They asked me to get a guarantor (now, I'm not sure if this is because I will be applying for housing benefit or not). I asked my mother if she could be the guarantor and she…
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Anyone used "www.conveyancing-quote.com"
Got a quote online with this company, and its considerably cheaper than any solicitors Ive spoken to locally. Is there a catch here? Has anyone been with them, or know anyone thats used them? http://www.conveyancing-quote.com/
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Renting out my house
At the minute this is a hypothetical question, but I'd be interested in the answer. I currently own my own house, but am considering moving to a different country to get a job. I would like to keep my house, as I may return one day (that is if I can afford it). I was thinking of renting my house out while I was away, and…
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Some good news....
I spoke with the local housing association who are going to offer us the shared ownership in a house we viewed last week. I'd been worrying as my OH has a couple of defaults on his credit file but was sure that his name would need to be on the mortgage as I believed the property was being offered to us under the keyworker…
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How do you work out what to offer
I have seen a house that I would like to put an offer on. From the other houses on the road it seems a little bit over the asking price of the other houses but it has a bigger garden. The house is really outdated though. Really old kitchen, bathroom, old fitted cabinets in bedrooms. No double glazing. Everything would have…
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Free Home Staging Advice
If you have a property in the London area on the market and would like some help with staging it for sale then Silver River Television would love to hear from you. We're looking for properties to be included on the second series of Interior Rivalry featuring Ann Maurice (The House Doctor) and would hope to boost your sale…
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Huge rant, not our debt!!
Hi there - not sure what I'm hoping to gain by writing this, but having a rant sure makes me feel better! A brief background: My partner and I bought our first house in July this year. It all went through reasonably smoothly, a few hiccups with the survey but all was sorted to our satisfaction. The house is an ex council…
