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sell house then rent?
We have our house up for sale at 170000, its a 3 bed roomed house in a village and seems reasonably priced for the area. We are willing to drop the price but we havnt had much interest, what i was thinking of doing was if i do sell rent another house short term and try and save, and hopefully in about 12 months the prices…
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Top letting sites
Hi all, just a quick one to pick your brains. Does any one know of any good sites which feature private letting services similar to Gumtree? Reading Berkshire is my desired area but any suggestions will help. Thanks in advance.
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Negotiating with Builders what should I do now !!!
I am currently in a great position as I have sold my house and looking to a buy a new build. Me and my partner have been looking for months and finally found our dream home. The house that we have seen is a brand new semi detatched 4 bed house in a great location. The house at the moment is a stop plot and has been…
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Are we in a good position?
We've just pulled out of buying a house one day before exchange. (I know we are horrible people). We've sold our house for nearly the asking price £147,000. (3 bed semi). It leaves us with £60,000 deposit towards our next house. We basically got scared at the last minute and with the current market didn't want to be paying…
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Are you in the building Trade - is work falling?
I would be grateful for anyone working in housebuilding right now. My OH does not think things are that bad. I would be grateful for anyone in the building trade to let me know of their own experiences of work right now i.e are you still finding work or have you been paid off, reduced rates etc. Many thanks in advance
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HELP-advice about pulling out after exchange
Hello everyone, I hope that someone can offer us a little guidance. Here's the problem: We bought a new home, off plan in Feb 2008 from a small developer. We then exchanged contracts at the start of March. The house is due to be completed in a few weeks, but we have not been given a d yet. My wife has recenty beed…
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Question regarding house type
Greetings all, Have a question which might seem stupid to some, but here goes... I bought a town house in a new development about a year ago (the terrace consist of 3 houses, mine is one of the end ones). When looking in house prices sites, my house appears as "terraced". the other end terraced house appears as…
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FTB and Renting Advice
Hello everyone, Looking for a bit of advice on two things. Firstly, my lease for the flat im in runs out on 1st July. Ive been in here since last june and I have been paying £450pm ( 2x 6 month leases ) I was thinking of staying here a while longer, but the letting agent has informed me that the rent will shoot up to £525…
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cooling off period with estate agency contract?
I signed a contract with an estate agent on Thursday for him to market my house for sale for a period of no shorter than 16 weeks and have changed agents to do this after having no luck. The problem is that a neighbor has also instructed the same agent to market her house, which is identical to ours, and the neighbor has…
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a positive note¬
Just a wee note to those of you selling!! do not give up hope!! My house had been on market for 6 months. Dcided to rent it out and take it off the market, 2 days after deciding this had offer at just under asking price!! Snapped their hand off!! Now just keeping fingers crossed for it all to go through nice and easy…
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Is this house over valued?
Please can somebody give me some feedback on this house? I think it is over valued for that price, no parking, a nightmare to find parking,no double glazing, ancient extractor with pull down cord in kitchen window, never saw anything like that before. etc. The location is good and daughter likes periodic features even that…
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Just wondering, can a seller...
Can a seller who is intent to sell his house refuse to sell to someone through an estate agent without good reason even if the buyer has enough money and offers higher than others?
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Losing Momentum
Hi everyone I put in an offer for a house at the end of January. I offered £5k under the asking price which was eventually accepted and duly applied for a mortgage. After loads of problems with the getting the survey done, the lender losing documents and basically using every stalling tactic they could think of, I got my…
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Adverse Buy to let
Hi there, does anyone here know of any companies that do adverse, or near prime, buy to let mortgages, I have 4 satisfied defaults, that are nearly 5 years old, and will drop off within a year and a bit, I have a 25% deposit, and I have my own mortgage, which is paid always on time, in fact the rest of my credit file is…
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Selling a small bit of my land
Hi all hope that this is in the right place to post.... The people that own the house that runs at the end of out property have built an extention, yesterday they asked if they could buy a small strip of our land at the end of our garden, this will enable then to access the rear of their property much easier. My question…
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Bloor Homes
I have finally sold my house, and am looking for a new one. I have seen a Bloor homes house, the showhouse which is available. They have said it was £210,000, comes with fixtures but not furniture. When i said to the lady in the shop how much could we get off, she said they would probably give us 5% off, which would drop…
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Renting flat to buy house?
A friend of mine and his wife have had their flat for sale for over 12 months, its a 1 bed room flat, he has reduced the price but still no luck, he his now desperate to get out as he has a son whos over 2 and they need the space. He has found a house which they like which is 163000 pounds and he can get a mortgage for…
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Advise Please on sale of flat
My 1 bed falt has been up for sale for 6 weeks now and is priced at 126,995, i live in the south east and bought the flat 2 years ago for 119,995. We have only had 1 viewing about 3 weeks ago and the person offered us 120,000. I have turned down this offer. We only put 5% deposit down on the flat and we would like to move…
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Pulling out of New build home
Thinking of pulling out of new bryant house as my home isnt selling. we have signed the missives and paid £8500 deposit. Have been told if we pull out we will lose the £8500 which is bad enough but we also have to pay for the RESALE of house. Does anyone know what this means? or have any experience of this. Any help would…
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Title Deeds Required For Hips and Solicitor Question
Hi, My parents are selling there house and the estate agent has arranged for the Hips to be done. The company has written to my parents asking them to forwards the deeds to the house or for permission to obtain them from the bank. Of course my Dad is very wary, and doesn't want to part with the deeds, and when we spoke to…
