House buying, renting & selling

Discussion List

• Selling Half a House Help

  I posted earlier this morning in regards to an inheritance tax question. I have one more burning question and difficulty. My partner and her sister are due to inherit a house from their mother. My partner wants to sell as soon as possible for financial and emotional reasons. Her sister wants to rent for a couple of years…

• Search for property by price drop

  I've just noticed on Globrix that you can now search for property to buy/rent by price change. I'm pretty sure this wasn't there a couple of weeks ago so it must be a new feature. I'm searching for a 2 bed flat in London at the mo and it seems you can now search by price 'change'...like I would search in Whitechapel for…

• Landlord illegally letting flat to us - advice needed please!

  Hello! I have been aware for some time that the owner of the flat we rent is breaking his lease by letting the property out to us. Someone from the company who owns the lease has been round and told us that we must move out as we have no rights to live in the property. I contacted the company who own the lease to have a…

• Str?

  Hi, I've been a bit of a lurker up until now. Wondering if someone could help explain what "STR" means? I've looked up the FAQ and it's not in the abbreviations list and I can't think what it means. Wikipedia says its "Special Theory of Relativity" but I'm guessing it's not that! Many Thanks! K

• sov harbour eastbourne

  hi does anyone have any info on living there as looking at a property at the moment and need some feedback thanks julie.

• Ownhome interview questions

  Hi I have got a telephone interview for the Ownhome/places for people scheme. I'm just wondering what sort of questions they are going to ask and if there is anything I need to have to hand during the call. I'd really appreciate it if someone who has been through this could let me know what to expect. Thanks so much

• Advice please on renting.

  Ok, I am going to view a house next Monday, found it on gumtree, no agency, looks nice............. in another city, abt 50 miles from me. Ok, first of all, landlord, (who is VERY young) said it's a 6 month tenancy, then will run month too month( I am actually on this kind of tenancy already) but what I woukld like to…

• Inheritance Tax Confusion - Home

  I am writing as my partner is in a new situation which I am clueless to help her with. Basically her mother has very little time left and has made a will which mostly consists of leaving her property to my partner and her sister equally. There are minor bank accounts which has been distributed to charity, grandchild etc.…

• Help surveyor North Yorkshire

  Hello. Can anyone help me find a surveyor? I have found a house in Saltburn by the Sea that I wish to purchase. I wont be needing a mortgage, but since its a Victorian house I need to get a survey. Same family have lived there for 60 years so I know it needs a lot of work.

• no rentbook?

  me and my parter moved into a property recently, signed the tennancy agreement, handed bond over etc. the only thing is we were not supplied with a rentbook. landlord has been calling at the property every month and collects cash no problem. what about this rent book though? surely we should have one? landlord is only…

• Where do I stand? Bought Off Plan Last Year. Due Completion in 1 Year

  Hi Guys, I bought an apartment in my local area last year, which is part of a major regeneration of the town centre) and it is due for completion this time next year. Myself and a number of others had to put down 10% (£15K) of the price as the deposit in Nov of 2007 but now I'm concerned that the apartment wont be worth…

• Slightly shellshocked..........

  We currently live in a HA flat (really nice) that wasn't let through the council but directly when they built some "expensive lets" and advertised tham a few years back. Because we need to move back to Bromley/Chislehurst area to be nearer the family, for the first time ever, I thought private lets would be the way to go -…

• Problem with estate agents - need advice

  Hello First of all forgive me if I'm posting this incorrectly or in the wrong place as this is my first post despite being a fan of this websites forums for quite a while. Myself and my partner are looking for a property. We are first time cash buyers (very very lucky) and wondered if anyone could give us any advice about…

• i hope they drop 50% even 20%!!!!!!!!

  My house is currently on the market for 155,000, i have dropped mine over 15000 pound but no one else seems to be dropping the prices of their houses, and they have been on the market for about 10 months. I was hoping for these big drops but they just havent happened, i bought my house in 1999 for 70,000 pound and to be…

• Trust of Land Act

  I need to find out about Trust of Land Act and the best way of dealing with one which an ex partner has placed on a good friends property.

• British culture of owning property??

  I often read on here (and see on telly and in papers) that one of the 'problems' in this country with regard to house prices is that we're all obsessed about owning property and that other european countries dont have this 'problem' because they are happier to rent and have different rental legislation which is more…

• Am I stupid to sell my house and rent for a year or so

  Hello, Me and my wife have just had a child and my wife wants to go back to work full time in a years time.We have decided to move a bit closer to her work to make things easier with childcare. We cannot afford to buy in the place we are moving too as it is more expensive than the area we live in now. So we have decided to…

• Why would they ask?

  I have just been asked by my LA to be if it would be OK if the LL provides only a fridge with no freezer compartment and no freezer. When we originally viewed the flat, I was under the impression that they were going to provide a tall fridge-freezer. This then changed to a small under-counter fridge with freezer…

• Buying a house for cash

  I am in a position where I can buy a house without a mortgage. I have seen a property I want to buy but strange as it may sound, am not sure how to buy it. For example do I need to get a home buyers report before I make an offer, is the property valued at the right price for the area etc. I have to do all the donkey work…

• Repossession of our Rented Flat - HELP!!!!!

  Hi all, hope someone can help. We have rented a flat since Feb 09, paying our rent on time (we were even asked by the landlady to bring payment date forward to accomodate her). Recently we've been getting loads of letters for the landlady from Northern Rock at our address. And yesterday we found a notice for repossession…