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Anyway of securing house before I sell mine?
Hi, I have found a house which I really like, I had my first offer rejected but now the house house been reduced to the same price as our offer. Problem is their estate agents do not accept offers unless the person who has offered has sold. I have a couple of people who want to buy mine but they are in the same boat as me…
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How did you choose the area you live? (Paranoid about moving to a bad area)
Simple question really. Why did you choose the location you live at? My reason for asking is I shudder when I read thread about people who have bought a place only to have been targeted by chav scum types or noisey neighbours. My stomach goes in knotts at the thought of it and I really feel sorry for people who have this…
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Wanting to buy house from landlord - advice
I was just wondering if anyone could offer some advice as to the legal hoo-haas over buying the house that I currently rent from my landlord. I was rather muddledly told about capital gains tax and think that this could be a major factor as the house was left to my landlord when his father died over 25 years ago. The house…
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Property Management Companies....
Hi, Im new to this, so firstly my apologies if there if a thread already lurking around on here. My boyfriend and I have bought our first flat, it is managed by a company called Solitaire. We get bills twice yearly for approx £700 each time. The previous owners told us they used to contest the amount and get a reduction,…
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Renting credit checks
Hello, I am after a bit of advice, we are currently renting a house through a private landlord. We have seen a house that we would like to rent but it is through an rental agency who do credit checks etc. The problem with this is that I declared myself bankrupt seven years ago, since then I have not sorted out my credit…
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Re: sold prices on upmystreet... obtaining more info
I'm looking at some recently added sold priced in my area on upmystreeet.com but it only describes the properties as "freehold/leashold/flat/mainsonette/terrace etc etc" and doesn't say number of bedrooms etc. Any way I can find out this info, ideally I'd like to know the same info it was marketted with. (The reason for my…
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Thinking about buying a new home...should we?
Hi Everyone, I hope nobody minds me posting this but I've nowhere else to go. We would like a balanced review of our situation. I have seen many mortgage advisers, brokers and spoke to as many people as possible but pretty much got the same answers "only you can decide if you can afford it or not, nobody can predict the…
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Stamp duty threshold being raised today...
What do you think? What are the chances? I have a sneaky suspicion that they will raise the threshold as an incentive for FTB's.
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Online tools find cheaper deals than an independent whole of market broker
Hello all :) I've been doing some research using online mortgage comparison tools and the results have been pretty good, ftb type properties in my area are within my reach (please don't bog this thread down with hpc posts, I know, I know). So, I call a local independent whole of market broker to make sure, and the monthly…
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What the hell is this all about?
£120 for a credit search when wanting to rent? :eek: Is this a windup? :confused: I can give them credit reports from all 3 agencies and it will cost me £6! Surely this isn't legal? When else do you pay for someone to do a credit search on you? Never, thats when! Am I missing a trick here? :undecided
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Urgent help/advice needed.
I hope somebody can advice me on this. In October 2006 I had a second property that I had bought 8 years earlier so that my disabled sister in law and my mother in law would have somewhere to live, the reasons for the need to do this are not important. My mother in law died the previous July, and my sister in law went into…
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Subsidence or settlement ?
My mother has a Victorian terraced house which she is considering selling. For as long as I can remember a couple of rooms at the back of the house are at a slight angle (there is a distinct slant, almost as if walking uphill). There are no cracks in the walls and no obvious signs that any movement is continuing. A few…
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Has anyone seen an impartial review of the house price situation?
Given that just about EVERYBODY has a vested interest in house prices, has anyone read an unbiased, balance view of the housing market at present? Seems that articles in broadsheet papers are flooded with comments from hardcore pesimists (who clearly don't have houses at the moment) or those (who clearly have bought…
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Lease extentsion renewal
Hi We are looking to extend our lease and need to reduce costs where ever possible. Our freeholder does not wish to resolve the cost between ourselves dispite the fact it is a converted house with only one other flat that extended last year for £6K (78 years). We live in sydenham, london We are thinking of writing th…
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Valuers and valuatons
If a Valuer is to have any credibility, should s/he ignore money supply and interest rates and value houses for what they are worth? (a lot less than current prices maybe). GG
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NHBC Warranty Question
Hi All, I'm not sure if this is the right place for this question but here goes. I moved in to a new build in November of last year and on Saturday I noticed a tile on the roof had broken and a piece was on the lawn. Would this be covered ad part of the NHBC warranty? Thanks is advance Webmister22
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Wimpey Snagging
We recently bought a new build an encountered numerous problems with snagging (260 so far), wimpeys have been rubbish and not interested in resolving. They have resolved 4 in 4 weeks todate. Any one else had problems or have any ideas how to go about resolving? :mad:
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partner moving in - am I in trouble?
hi i have been renting this place for 4 months now and my wife(who was living and working in a different city-now leaving her job to be together) is planning to move in with me by the end of this month. when i mentioned this to my LA, they are keen finding out a date and on doing a credit search on her, which is £120. Do i…
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Advice Re: Hip Pack
I am due to instruct an Estate Agent to market my property. I am in the process of sorting my own HIP pack. I have seen an online company conveyancingbrokers.co.uk There price for a freehold property (located in Chesterfield) is £264 inc vat. This is over £100 cheaper than the estate agent. Has anybody used this company or…
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finding out property status & ownership ?
Iwas wondering if there was a way to find out what status a property was eg, private, rented, owner occupied etc...... I am currently preparing evidence for a court case against an ex landlord/agency, i would like to know if ( as i have had a tip off) if the owner/landlord of the house has actually declared it as being let…
