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Covenant requiring permission to extend property
Hi folks, We have accepted an offer on our house and are nearing exchange (hopefully next week!). There is a conservatory that was built during the early 1990s that when we purchased the property in 2007 no mention was made of by our solicitor in his enquiries on our behalf. Now we are selling, our buyers' solicitor has…
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Burger vans and planning rules
Good morning all I was just wondering if anyone knows about rules for keeping burger/ice cream vans. I was talking to a friend at the weekend who lives in a rural area in a National Park and her neighbour runs a burger/ice cream etc van business. There are around 8 vans and a couple of caravans parked at his house and they…
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Buying my parents House & Evaluation
Hi, I want to buy my parents house which is worth around 500K, we had a major leak due to a burst pipe and there is around 100K worth of damage. Can I buy the house for under the market value ie. 100K-250K? .. what are the implications of CGT and how much stamp duty will I have to pay? A
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Repo Notices - Where are they?
Reading the other thread about the necessity for a public notice on selling a repo property, I realised that although I know all about this practice I've never actually seen one. Are there any particular publications they normally appear in? Anyone know where to look in London especially? Just curious.
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Estate Agents telling fibs?
I'm a first time buyer, so sorry if i'm being a bit thick here. There's a house that we like that we are going to be putting an offer in for. I went into the estate agents to ask about it, and they said that an offer has been made £7.5k under the asking price (they've told someone else the same as well), but the property…
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predicted epc
Were in the process of buying an 8 year old house , price has been agreed and now waiting for usual paperwork from vendor solicitors including the EPC. We noted how effiicient it was in the EA particulars but am now just wondering if the original Builders EPC was used, a Predicted EPC , rather than one produced by the…
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Joint Mortgage - only one signature on the contract
Our house is currently on the market with an estate agent, but on the contract only MY signature appears (my hubby was at work when the estate agent visited). (A previous EA that we'd used INSISTED that BOTH signatures were required, but this one didn't ask). There is now a discrepancy where the EA are trying to claim…
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Multiple (neighbours?) aerials on end terrace house
I recently viewed an end terrace house, I noticed it had multiple aerials (4) on the end wall, I assume these are all the aerials for the terrace (4 houses), I can't think why there would be so many otherwise. If I bought this house, would I be able to remove these aerials, or does it depend on what it says on the deeds…
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What to do
me and my ex partner split up 2 years ago while both joint owning a property with 28000 pound extra as a unsecured loan from northern rock when we split i had to shoulder most of the debt around 9000 which included credit cards and loans , as we both didnt want to live in the house we rented the property out to cover some…
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Interesting Opportunity
Just wanted to gauge some feedback on what you guys think of an opportunity that is available at the moment. I have no plans to do this in the immediate future but its tempting in say 6 months time when things settle down a little with my Fiancee's job. We bought our house 7 months ago for 110k. It was a bit of a wreck…
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New House/Flat Sharing & Buddy Ups Thread
Hey there all, I am a 'not so newbie' to MSE site (have been using it for years now and always singing its praises to anyone & everyone who will listen to me) but I am brand new to this forum. A thought struck me whilst reading the useful bits of info on here that there doesn't seem to be a thread dedicated to people who…
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Site that lists quality of an area? Average income, house prices, crime etc.
I saw a site that did this years ago and I forgot the name, all my searches came up with nothing (no idea how to phrase it...) Anyone have any ideas? For example if I input "kent" it'd say average income is x, crime is y etc etc
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First Time Buyer- How Much Would You Offer?
I'm a first-time buyer, so while I've been doing the required research I have little practical experience of dealing with estate agents. I may be interested in this property, which has come on the market this week at an asking price of £185K, which is a little above my budget. If all the surveys etc work out as planned,…
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Homelet
Looking to start renting a flat have got the paperwork filled in but I have a ccj and poor credit history but my girlfriend has very good credit history would this stop us getting accepted ???? Had a ccj in sept 2007 but it got discharged sept 2008
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would this be on the F&F list ?
check out picture 9 - so you think it's for sale with the house or would you have to pay extra?
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Is 145k a good deal?
Ok so we have put an offer in for a property and it has just been accepted. The offer was 20k more then the listed price(123k). I feel we have been too generous and now im not sure what to do. The detached 3bed dormer bungalow downstairs has one bedroom, bathroom, kitchen, hallway and living/dining room. upstairs there are…
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Any takers for a £1M garage?
Stumbled on this today: http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/new-homes/property-18033804.html If that's the garage I wanna see the rest of the mansion :cool:
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Buyers, what have you seen?
We all know that EA's house particulars are economical with the truth, OK, full of lies and that EA's photos are either rubbish, manipulated or doctored. The thing is, we buyers go to view houses and what what meets us when we get there is often, shall we say unexpected (in the real sense of the word unexpected not in the…
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Urgent Advice Needed - Property To Let Out with First Direct Mortgage
Hi Forum, I have a property (3bed semi - leasehold) in Manchester and is mortgaged with First Direct (normal mortgage - not buy to let). I have had the property for about 4 years and wish to rent it out very soon. I have family (myself at weekend) living in the property and the buildings insurance is about to expire…
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EPC rant
Perhaps this should go on the Praises, Vents and Warnings board. Just had the EPC assessor round, who informed me that all the halogen bulbs I recently bought which were in the low energy section of the DIY stores, with lots of energy saving marketing blurb on the packaging, are to be counted as ordinary bulbs. They are…
