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Selling a house with no deeds?
Hi Found this reply to a similar question (probate property to sell, no deeds found anywhere) and just wanted to check that it was right (can't check LR site on a Sunday for some reason) My late mother's house was bought by her in 2005 so going on the reply below, there are no deeds anyway but that doesn't matter? Would…
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Including parents' names on deeds?
Hi all, I am about to buy my ex partner out of his share of our house, and to do this I need to pay about £40k, which my parents' are going to help me out with. However, is it right for them to gift me the money and just have my own name on the deeds or for them to be included on the deeds as having a registered interest.…
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Help with part exchange
This is my first post on here, I have been reading for awhile but have never posted. I was wondering if anybody had any advice. I am part exchanging my property for a new build with Taylor Wimpey and are due to complete on Friday 1st. A requirement of completion was to have a gas safety certificate. This is where the bad…
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How do I get from a joint mortgage to a single mortgage??
Hi, I am in a joint mortgage with a partner at present (only 9 months into the mortgage) we are in the process of spliting up and I'm not too sure where I stand regards to taking over the mortgage in my own name or what my ex-partner is due (if anything) in money back? Can anyone help or pass on any advice?? Many thanks
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Council Tax - Band Review Pending
A house we've seen is currently B but has a band review pending on the VOA site (it's had a loft conversion since it was last sold). Is there anyway of finding out what the band is likely to become?
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Buying to build Conservatory/extension: Property has detached garage
Help, need advise to proceed or not? I am buying an end terrace hosue with a detached garage (7 by 2.5 meters). The detached garage is about 6 meters behind the property accessible to the side of the property. We eventually will want to extend by 3 meters rear of the property either a full extension (ideally) or…
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Holding deposit - smoker?
Hi, Quick question, a friend of mine is a smoker. Has (signed) authorised a holding deposit (1 week's rent) to be debited after having an offer accepted but has just seen a summary of a proposed AST which says no smoking allowed. If he pulls out now because he is a smoker is he liable to still have his holding deposit…
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First viewing tomorrow- any hints?
I'm really nervous about the viewing we have tomorrow, we are having an 'open day' that the ea is taking care of next week, but they called yesterday to say that this woman is 'desperate' to see the house before then so she is coming round in the morning. As this is the first time we have sold a house we are clueless as…
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Buying a second buy to let house
I rent out a house worth about £100,000 with a mortgage of about £45,000. I wanted to know if I could use this equity in this house as a deposit to buy another house under buy to let? Thanks.
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Rental property issues
resolved thanks for all of your input
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How much is it reasonable to contribute if living with boyfriend?
I am thinking of possibly moving into live with my boyfriend who owns his own flat. He has no mortgage (generous parents!). He said he wouldn't charge me rent if I did...but what is fair for me to pay? Should I offer to pay half the bills? Or pay a monthly sum? Buy food? My boyfriend currently has a lodger who pays him…
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Assured Shorthold tenancy break clause advice required
Hi there, my wife and I have a private AST for 12 months, due to expire Dec 4th 2011. We have recently been told about another property in our area that is bigger, however we have been looking through our contract and it states that, to end the contract early, we have to ... a) Pay all reasonable costs for reletting the…
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offer accepted via EA1, now marketed by EA2
However, not as clear a case as it seemed at first glance! Back in December we were well into our selling process & our EA introduced us to a property that we loved & promptly put an offer in (in the hope that we could combine our completion dates). We have a letter indicating the vendors acceptance. However, nothing came…
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Adding clauses to standard AST contract
I want to add a no smoking clause and one requiring the (new) carpets to be cleaned and flea treated at the end of a tenancy as I have agreed to their dog. I am using a RLA standard contract but i dont appear to be able to add clauses. Is it acceptable to attach a further sheet of paper to the contract, and get it signed…
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Reservation fee loss
Hi, just wondering if anyone can help... We reserved a new build property just under 2 weeks ago for a £500 fee. We have since decided that this isn't the property for us, and withdrew from the reservation. We were expecting to have £100 witheld by the builders for 'admin expenses', however we have been informed by the…
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Should I give them a deadline
We are in a situation where we had a buyer pull out so we lowered the price in order to get another buyer fast so we could still go ahead with our purchase property. The buyer assured us he could complete quickly. However his solicitor seems to be useless. Looking on their website they seem to be a local company who…
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Cost of Building On Plot
We live in Aberdeenshire, have a house which I reckon is worth about 190K with a mortgage of £28K left. I would like to buy a plot to build a house and hopefully go mortgage free. What would the approx building costs for an average 3 bedroom house? Not a huge issue if we can't clear the mortgage but it would be nice!
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The Average UK Home
Hi, Bit of fun for those who like to property surf! One of the threads recently mentioned someone looking to buy a house for £600k, and it was assumed that this was a higher end property. Which made me realise how much location impacts what is 'normal'! So I thought it would be interesting to compare what you get for your…
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just about to exchange contracts then haybrooks say higher someone has put bid in
Hi I hope someone can helps my friend. He put in an offfer on a house 2 months ago it was excepted. There is no chain as the house was owned by the bank as someone did a runner. ( not paying the mortage). Anyway he was just about to exchange contracts then Haybrooks have just phoned him to say someone has put a higher…
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Transferring funds to solicitors
Hi, We are due to complete in a couple of weeks. I need to transfer some funds to my solicitors before completion. The amount is over 20k. I have my solicitors bank details. What is the best way to do this? Do you have to use CHAPS or can I just transfer it using my online banking? Thanks everyone.
