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Letting Agency Contract Terms
I'm renting a new house in November, and just received the pre-tenancy documention including the rental contract. It repeatedly states that the landlord or their agents may enter the property by "giving 24 hours notice (where possible)" for various e.g. repairs, showing new tenants round, inspections etc. I know that this…
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How to Avoid Property Tax
Hi All, Just a quick question, does anybody know if the following book is any good? How to Avoid Property Tax: http://www.amazon.co.uk/How-Avoid-Property-Carl-Bayley/dp/1904608558/ref=sr_1_1/202-3658469-8910200?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1191404053&sr=1-1 Does it give you any information in the book that you cannot find elsewhere…
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How much to offer?
We would like to put an offer in on this house: http://www.pattinson.co.uk/Public/content/Buy/Estate-Agents/Property-For-Sale/66764.htm How much should an initial offer be? I had heard 10% below, so £225k. Does that sound right? Because this house is larger than many others it's hard to compare sold prices. TIA
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Cameron's FTB stamp duty exemption policy
:mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: Mr P & I start uni the year they introduce tuition fees get a company car year they introduce company car tax buy our first house 6 months before abolition of stamp duty for FTBs is proposed. !!!!!! I have a vein here somewhere, why not just BLEED ME DRY and have be done with it. Silly man.
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Help! Builder started new house, can't sell old house, how to own both short term?
Hi, I've paid a booking fee (not deposit & no contract signed) on a new build. Current house has been on the market for 6 months with no bids/offers. I have good equity in current house. How can I keep the new build without putting myself in financial trouble prior to selling current house. I've thought about renting or a…
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HELP!-What do you do if Seller keeps information from you
Need advice- don't what to do- really appreciate any help Bought flat couple of months ago, everything going well, then out of the blue i am told that there is a leak from my flat affecting the flat below (i can see no evidence of a leak). Apparently, the previous owner knew all about it and it was agreed they'd sort it-…
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how many viewings did you get after the first newspaper advert
mine is in on Thursday, just wondering whether i will see an increase. mine has been on market about 10 days, had several viewings with strange excuses, best of which "the flat is too far from my family" who live 1 mile away, did they expect the flat to move to their area.
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First time buyer / 'victim' / cannon fodder? :)
Hi there, New on these here boards, and plan on sticking around - you guys seem as sound as the pound(s) you save! :) lol. Now, I was wondering if anyone could give some advice/their opinion on my situation. I am a single, 22 year old chappy with a fulltime job earning £17500 a year (or £1100 a month net) looking at the…
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Estate Agent terms - Questions
Had 3 agents round to value a flat. I am thinking of instructing one of them who appears to be realistic about the price (not the highest valuation), and keen to sell it. And he is talking about a joint agency fee of 2%. This is the same commision figure as some sole agency agreements I have been offered, so I suspect it…
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What to do between exchange and completion PLUS Insurance on BTL
We are expecting to exchange contracts on another house end of this week. Still need to agree a completion date. I'm reckoning we need a minimum of 2 weeks between exchange and completion in order to ensure everything goes smoothly. Anyone disagree with this? The question is, what do we need to do between exchange and…
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Lease
Hi, i was wondering if anyone could help. My girlfriend has signed a lease on a room that she no longer wants last thursday. Are there such things as cooling off periods in these circumstances?, the door has no lock!! and the room is dirty. Is there anyway out of this or will it come down to negotiation or running off ;)
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Everyone is entitled to their 15 minutes of property development fame.
I heard some people gossiping at work about a bedsit today. They were laughing about the size and shower room being described as a bathroom. Later on I realised why - I saw an advert for two flats on a notice board. One boasted a "kitchen/living room/bedroom" area and was on at £99K and another at £125K. I've just found…
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securing new house
Have mortgage free house for sale (400k) and have found our dream retirement appartment (250k) both in UK, no occupier, any way can we secure? until our sale goes through,been looking at equity release/mortgage or lump sum deposit.Any positive suggestions appreciated :confused:
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Invest it or not
My wife and I are purchasing a new home and will have approx £30k in equity which we could either put into the property and have lower mortgage repayments.Alternatively we could take the 30k and make it work for us.However we would obviously have higher mortgage repayments which with some financial tweaking here and there…
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Buy to let 40% loss at auction
Property Week This is a repeat story about new build buy to lets. I think the ?Telegraph? found a similar picture a couple of months ago. Apologies if it's been posted already & I missed it. I did look back four pages to check the headlines but I may have been looking in the wrong place.
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Renting problem
Hello all, I was just wondering if anyone on here would be able to help me, I have recently (3 weeks ago) moved into a property that we are renting however since we have moved in we have had a series of disasters Let me start with the state of the house as we moved in, we were told before moving in that the garden to the…
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Crazy situation
We put in an offer in May which was accepted, what with one thing and another, chain and top breaking, then chain at new top breaking our situation is this. 5 months from offer still no house, we did get call last week from solicitor that completion was to be this Friday, and then today we find out top of chain has pulled…
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Major Works ex council Properties
Please Please Please can anyone help me with this subject???!!!! I'm at my wits end its driving me mad!!!! I bought my flat 3 years ago the flat was ex council but i bought from the leaseholder, at the time my solicitor said there were NO Major Works planned, then 2 months ago i'm hit with a 26k bill for planned major…
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Contract help (renting)
Hi, this probably isn't the right website but I thought I'd ask anyway. I've just signed a contract for renting a flat. The landlord sent me 2 photos of 2 bedrooms and said they were the ones left. They looked fine and I said I'd be happy with either so I signed the contract and posted it back. Today I was in touch with…
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should I swap agents?
In the spring we had several local agents round to value. The ones I liked best were agent A who seemed keen, was offering a 1% deal as they were new in the area, and agent B, who seemed very professional but wanted 1.5%. Some time went by while we prepared the house for sale. Then went back to agent A and asked if the 1%…
