House buying, renting & selling

Discussion List

• Is It Worth Trying To Negotiate On The Rental Price???

  Hi everyone Hope someone will be able to help with this. I live in a council property at the moment but for various reasons ( its a long story) am looking to move into private rented accomodation!!! I work full time but don't earn a great deal and I just wondered if it was worth trying to negotiate with prospective…

• Mortgage and Property through Halifax

  I have a mortgage agreement with Halfiax and i have agreed a price on a property with Halifax. I am getting a phone call to start the process later today. However, since i have to wait, i was wondering a couple of things... 1. The valuation has already been technically done for the sale, should this bit go quicker / do i…

• Council tax rebate

  Hi all, we are in the process of emigrating and hope to relocate just after Christmas. We are in the process of selling our house and I was just wondering is it possible to claim anything back of our council tax and other bills please? Any advice most welcome, thanks.

• Tenancy deposit schemes

  Can anyone please offer any advice on any of the deposit schemes. Is it a case of one particular scheme be suited to a landlords needs and are there any pro's and cons to each of them. I have only the one BTL and will be depositing £750. Any help/advice greatly appreciated.

• Tax help needed - asset transfer

  Hi, thanks for looking in. Seven years ago I bought a property in Greece on behalf of a non Euro relative, the property is still in my name. This was done because he (the relative) insisted Greek law would not allow non EU members to by property in Greece without loads of admin. Although this sounds like rubbish since…

• Tenant will not sign corgi inspection cert!

  Just wondering what my legal standpoint is here! I have complied with the law getting a plumber to do an inspection but my tenant is completely scattered brained and has not arranged to sign the cert. After a lot of polite requests to comply, she has not and I wonder where I stand legally on this?

• Bond & Deposits

  Please can you advise how bonds work with private landlords, we are claiming LHA? I rang 'rent wise' today, they are sending form to me, it takes 3 weeks to process and get my references and the LL has been reasonable to let us move on our agreed date in 2 weeks, how do bonds work though as they've requested deposit of…

• valuhips.co.uk any views on this company

  Hi i ordered my Energy Performance Certificate from this company (http://www.valuhips.co.uk) on Sunday and no one has called me to arrange for my rented house to be assesed. I am going to sort this mess out tomorow as i had to take a day off work for this.:mad: Has anyone else used this company???

• do you think the media is helping with the housing situation??

  hey, me and my partner have just purchased our first home...it was on the market for £106,000 and we paid £94,000 its a 2 bed town house with 3 car parking spaces and garden in a nice cul-de-sac location. I am very happy with our purchase i think we paid a fair price for it, as we haven't overstretched ourselves with the…

• estate agents offering part exchange?

  We got a letter in the post today from one of the estate agents that we signed up with to look for propety. Im having problems selling my property (in a completly different part of the country to where we are moving to). their letter spoke of a 'part exchange scheme'. Im going to ring them tomorrow, but for the time being,…

• What to do next?

  My husband-to-be has just been made redundant today. We're getting married next week :mad: We're just about to exchange contracts on our new house - we have to move out of our rented flat. We don't have any choice but to carry on with our purchase because we'll be homeless in a few weeks if we don't. The mortgage…

• Buying Freehold: Do I need a Solicitor?

  We have been in the same property for 23 years, and after recently going through part of the process of selling (the buyer gazundered us at the last moment so we withdrew from the market) we realise how complicated being leasehold has become since we last moved. We ended up having to pay out £300 to get retrospective…

• Flood risk

  Hi everyone I'm currently renting, but hoping to buy some time in the next couple of years. At the moment I'm just keeping an eye on the market in the town where I live and watching what happens to the prices of the sort of house I might want to buy one day. My town had quite a lot of flooding last year, and of course I…

• My Choice Homebuy

  This is my third attempt to buy a house after two vendors have pulled out after my survey has been done. I have now been accepted on to the my choice home buy scheme which is run by my local housing association. I have had a offer accepted on a two bed house, I have found out today that my vendor also trying to use the…

• Where do I stan - ending Tenancy Agreement

  Myself and my partner found a flat that we very much love, although it was not in a state of disrepair as such it could really do with refurbishing. Unfortunately due to our landlord we now no longer wish to live at the flat with him as a landlord. I'd like some advice on where we stand. We put in an offer of discounted…

• Nationwide......

  Has anyone heard of this???????? We are buying a new house and so it has to be surveyed from plan. We have arranged our mortgage with the Nationwide. The surveyor called us yesterday to say that he agrees the house is valued at the price the builders have asked for, but he has been told by Nationwide, to treat it as if we…

• A question about Housing Associations

  I've never thought about HA's up until now, I've always rented privately, but the thread on the state of some private accomodation is spot on! Especially the fact that I will NOT decorate a private let as it's only benefiting the LL who will turf you out to get a higher rent. Now I'd like to move in with my bf, but he has…

• Landlord has debts - will this affect my credit rating ?

  Hi, Newbie here, advice needed ! Ive recently moved into a room in a house which also has another girl living there. She used to live with the owner, now he has moved into a friends house so he is renting out the rooms seperatly. Ive paid £350 deposit and pay rent monthly which includes all bills. I have no written…

• Being held off on exchange for newbuild home

  Hi My offer on a newbuild flat was accepted months ago (around June), I got my mortgage and retained a solicitor. I've paid the reservation fee and had to wait months while the exchange date was moved several times even tho the flats had been completed for months. Eventually a new exchange date was agreed only to be moved…

• Heartbreak home

  http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1034228/Heartbreak-home-One-womans-blow-blow-account-like-trying-sell-house-credit-crunch.html