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Buying garden land?
Hello, Having lost out on our dream house :( , we are seriously considering whether to try and buy a plot of land and self-building... there isn't a lot of properties that are in our budget in the area but occasionally people buy the larger expensive houses and sell part of their garden. Thing is, we have never come across…
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Fitted Kitchens Essex Area
Hi Can anybody provide any suggestions of people they have used and pleased with their service(design-Installation). Has anybody any experience of a company called Essex Boilers? Thanks in advance
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How does it work? want to buy 2nd house
Now that we have a little one on the way we need to sell our house and buy one that's more child friendly. We bought our first house in May las year for £86K with us putting a £22K deposit down, the house we're looking to go for is £80K. I have no idea of the logistics of the situation, I've tried googling and it's all…
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Can we make an offer by email?
Hi from a FTB Can we make an offer by email or does it have to be in person? Also we have over 75% deposit, do we have to wait until we have an MIP or can we make an offer then arrange a mortgage because we are in the process of setting up bank accounts to get an offset? Any help would be grateful Thanks
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Stereotyping us?
Hi I am a 22 year old woman and my partner is 21. I work as a Med Secretary in West London and he is a Duty Manager at Iceland. We can both afford to rent a place alone but wish to live together. On veiwing a couple of flats, i have noticed we always get very sarcy comments or silly answers to our questions. E.g I asked…
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Selling without an Estate Agent
My Grandad is selling his home and the current Estate Agent is utterly useless and lazy. And as it stands we [the family] are doing far more work than him. Considering he is expecting almost 8k for doing basically naff all this is pretty poor. How hard would it be to market this home ourselves? And also which property…
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anyone live near a gravel pit?
I've found a house I want to buy, it has a south facing garden with lovely field views, but there are proposals for the field view to be turned into a huge gravel extraction site. Although consultations are ongoing and nothing has been decided locals are furious that screening trees have already been planted around the…
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Home Valuation - issue
Recently we put our home up for sale after having 3 valuations. We ended up going with the middle valuation, we had lots of interest very quickly and it sold 4 days later at 2k below the asking price. We have since found a home we love and a survey has been done on our home and the house we found. We found out Thursday…
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How do you find out who owns the land
I am looking to buy some land in my area. There sems to be lots of overgrown fields etc, but I cannot find out who owns these pieces of land. Have tried contacting local farmers etc but they can shed no light on who is the owner. Any suggestions how to find out?????
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does anyone live in the hebrides?
in particular the isle of lewis? looking for somewhere remote with good local services and this has popped up in my search. just wondering if anyones got any advice before i go full throttle and cut myself off from the world :) a move wont happen for a couple of years but im scouting out potential places now so that when…
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recomend a convayer
hi i am looking for a online convayer and would like if recomend ones that they have used if poss with a fixed cost none of my freinds of family have moved in the last 5 years so cant ask them. Thanks
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Can I make an offer on a house if my house hasn't had one?
Hi guys. I have seen a house I like and would like to make an offer on it. Can I put an offer on it if my house hasn't received one yet? I have no deposit to put down as I will be using the equity in my current home for this. How does the buying and selling process work for something like this? Sorry if sounding dull, it's…
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Seeking Possesion Notice Advice PLS.
Hi All. I was wondering if anyone knowledgeable could advise me regarding a Seeking Possession Notice i have received from the council? Two weeks ago i came home from work to find a seeking possession notice hand delivered pushed thru my letterbox from the Council. Apparently a resident who lives in the same block as i do…
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survey query
Hi, We have just had an offer accepted on a lovely house and are very excited.:j As there was a lot of interest in this house I feel we were very lucky to get our offer accepted and so want to make sure it all goes through ok. To show how keen we are I want to get the survey booked asap. Should I wait until we receive the…
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Need to move home....but which home???
Hi, my wife and I are recently married, both mid 20's, and want to move into a larger home. No kids yet but they will come in next few years. We'd like to create as much of a financial fortress as possible, before they arrive. I'm fulltime employed, oh works part time and parttime student. Combined income approx £50k pa.…
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Help! I need advise, might have to pull out
Hi We sold our house in end Jan to a FTB who really want our house and were patient in the 2 months it took us to find our next house. We found this 2 weeks ago and the people who we are buying from also need to find and to date have viewed but found nothing yet. I have just been told that my role is at risk of redundancy,…
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Has anyone heard of 2 Freeholds on 1 property?
I live in the upstairs flat of a maisonette. The yrs remaining on the lease is down to less than 60, so wanted to renew lease or purchase freehold. I have just found freeholder (he was absentee) but have just realised that there are 2 Freeholds the one building! I thought that the freehold related to the land that the…
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Selling land
Hi, I am selling some of my house land to my neighbour, it's only a small bit and is to be used as garden non buisness, do I have to pay any income tax? I have read somewhere as it's for garden use only I don't have to pay anything? thanks for your advice Julian
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Buying From a Private Seller
Hi I have recently accepted an offer on my house but have been struggling to find the right house to buy in the area I want to move to. I therefore wrote a speculative letter and dropped it through the door of houses in the roads I would like to find a house. I received a message yesterday from one of the houses saying…
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How to work out if house priced correctly?
Hi all, Like the look of a house and would like to go and view but was wondering if there is any way in working out how accurate the valuation is when the house was built by and still occupied by the seller and therefore never been sold before.
