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good to see things back up and running
I'm no expert but I'm guessing this was a pretty sophisticated attack for the site to be down for so long. Do you think it could have been some angry HPC fanatics who were upset about not being to able to discuss their favourite topic. :confused:
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Shared equity scheme
Hi guys, after reading the thread about falling house proces i am slightly freaking out. I am just about to buy a property on a shared equity scheme, off plans with affordable housing scheme. Basically the market value of the property is 92.5 k and i will have a 67% stake in this property with a mortgage of £61K, no dep…
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Breach of lease charges
Does anyone know if there is a limit to the charges handed out by leasehold companies. I have built an extension, told the company about it, but am now informed i told them too late! I am now expected to pay £1000 plus vat plus 'any further costs incurred' by the company gaining advice from other sources...i.e. more…
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Damp in a house, good or bad?
Hi everyone We've just had our survey back on a house that we are hoping to buy. The surveyer has noticed that there is damp in the house. When we viewed the house the vendor told us that the house had been had damp proof course put in. We're in a bit of a pickle now because my partners parents are telling us to pull out…
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Council Right to Buy
Hello Folks, I would like to pick your brains please. We have just been offered our flat under the CRTB scheme. The market price the council have given is £90'660 with our discount its £52'660. Bargain Right this is where you folks could advise. What we want to do is ... Raise as much money as we can via the equity to put…
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No completion certificate from conversion
Hi all, i hoped that i might be able to get some advice from some who are more experienced than me in buying houses... I'm a first time buyer in the middle of arranging a completion on a property. It turns out that the prpoerty was converted into flats in 1999 and a completion certificate was applied for, but never…
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2nd Viewings
Just wondering what your views are of second viewings? Do they generally (always?) lead to offers? Personally, I've always made up my mind from the first visit and have only requested a second viewing if DH wasn't with me for the first so he'd not seen it at all. But the decision to offer was pretty much made on the first…
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Why do people say there is/will be shortage of house?
I can't find shortage of house :confused: AFAIK, nobody in this country lives on streets! Everyone has somewhere to stay [rented/owned etc.] There are still plenty of places with FOR SALE and TO LET boards. I'm on rent - and changed home few times. I never faced "shortage" of properties. Well, sometimes there can be…
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First Time Letting my property
Hi, I am looking for some advise here, any help is appreciated. I have had a change in my job that requires me to relocate for minimum of 1 year and I need to move fairly quickly. I thought it best to rent my property out (3 bed house) and rent where I relocate to. My current mortgage is with Coop and they have been pretty…
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where has the "27% DROP in number of Mortgage approvals" thread been moved to
Can't see it in the house price discussion thread ?? :confused:
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Jeremy Vine today discussing selling house without EA
This part of the discussion starts at 1pm on Radio 2 Would be great if some of you who had done this contributed to the programme...if only to put voices to user names:D
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BBC - Rising prices good for majority? Wrong, wrong wrong.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7059718.stm I'm sure most MSE'ers already have the good sense to know this :beer:
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Western New York Property
Has anyone bought any property in Western New York through a company called Brennan Property Investments. I am looking at buying a property (very cheap with massive yields), but was wondering if anyone has had any dealing with this company . (good or bad). They look good and i have done my research about the property…
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Play it safe or Go for broke??
We're planning on moving next year and have a bit of a dilemma. We have a joint income of £38000 and have seen some beautiful houses at around £200000. We'll have saved £10000 and should get at least £10000 from our current house so would need to borrow £180000. Do any high street lenders with decent rates lend at this…
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Portishead - should I sell or should I go ??
Mrs. Nollag lived in Portishead, outside Bristol, for many moons before we married and moved to London. She has kept her flat there, and is renting it out, even though we both know we could get higher rental yields in other parts of the country. The reason for her doing this is that she is holding out hope for the railway…
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Selling house without Estate Agent!!
Is this a good idea?????? in a few weeks i'm going to sell my house hoping to save the 1.5% fee (only 1 estate agent where i live so fee is fixed) I was thinking of putting up posters in window of shopa and making a myspace page HAs this worked for anyone else is it even a good idea?? Any advice gratefully received thanks
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Estate Agents...........Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr....
I am in my lovely new house, althought i am still arguing with the estate agent over fee's to cut a long story short, i was messed around with my buyer, first on the day of exchange he said he wanted 5 grand knocked off the price, secondly after that got sorted then the next day of exchange the buyer didnt have enough…
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Hips getting done today
Hi, Just wondered what the energy effiecency guy which actually do for the Hips today at my house, will he be in the loft and stuff like that. Cheers Lee
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What to do!?!
Went to view a house last night. 3 bed semi in Liverpool. Needs no work, apart from a lick of paint. It was up for 128k, they reduced it to 124,995 to be under stamp duty limit... I like it... Not really got a deposit.... What could I do? Offer a lot lower, get them to pay deposit in some way!?!?
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Moving out of rented accomodation. Check out fee???
My girlfriend and I are moving out of our rented flat next month, and we have been told that there is a check out fee of £70.00 that will be taken out of our deposit, once we have left. Surely this isn't right. How can they justify this charge, and will I get anywhere by asking them to justify/get rid of it?? Any help, as…
