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Work needs doing. Who pays, seller or buyer?
I sold my house subject to contract at a price well under what I wanted for it (on the market at £144500, sold £127000). The buyer wouldn't increase their first offer and the house had been on the market and empty for 6 months so I reluctantly agreed. Now a survey has been done and some damp was found. Repair costs…
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My Own Property + a Joint Property
Good Afternoon Everyone This is my first post after being a avid reader of some posts, but hoping i can be given some advice. I purchased my own home (a quarter home) in January 2010. I was with my girlfriend at the time of purchase however we had not even considered moving in with each other. My girlfriend has now been…
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Lease question - conveyancing
Hi - I'm trying to sell my top floor flat. I use the attic for storage of and it has been boarded up beofre I mived in. Apparently it says in the lease however that I do not have access to it as it is not mentioned in there at all. My buyer wants to know hether I have permission to use it. I have never asked my freeholder…
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Two properties.. downsizing to one
Hi All I know this has probably been done before and I know it's a complex area.. but have a query I hope you can help with. If you had two properties, one your home and another a rental and wanted to sell both to downsize to a smaller home, what would be the best way to go about doing this to avoid paying lots of tax?…
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Elderly Parents who don't speak very good English.. houssale/purchase on their behalf
Hi all My DH's parents are getting on a bit and would like to sell their two properies and downsize. They do not speak very good English and would like DH to deal with the sale and purchase on their behalf. Would this be possible? Thanks in advance
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Strutural Survey (per mortgage request)
On the detached garage alone. Would you be happy enough if the vendors were to fit the bill and use their own structural engineer who is a member of the RICS?
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Part ex - stress and misery!
Hi We agreed to do a part ex fall back on our current house against a new build, and the builder agreed that he would keep reducing the house until sold and if he had to take a loss he would... Now some 4 and a half weeks into the scheme and only one reduction of 5k he is now saying that after 6 weeks if another person is…
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Buying with my partner: Partnership Agreement?
Hi All, I'm buying a house with my partner. I am putting significantly more into the deposit than he is - I'm obviously happy to do this, but we want to have an agreement that states that if we break up and have to sell the property that I will get out my deposit and the proportion of the mortgage I've paid (and he will…
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Advice needed re letting agent
I have let my property out for the last two years to the same tenant, however neither the tenant or I have been satisfied with the service the LA have provided, eg charging me £100 to renew the lease but failing to tell me that the tenant had refused to sign it as they wanted £150 from them, letting the GSC lapse and then…
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Sold our house but can't find another
We've sold our house after a fabulously quick 2 weeks but are without a suitable option to buy. We're at the lower end of a high priced area and nothing seems to be coming on the market anytime quick. We're booked into see everything out there at the weekend but don't feel hopefully with any of them. I don't want to do…
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Selling house - neighbour dispute
Hi, I'm hoping for some defininte advice / information... Am about to put my property on the market. I originally bought it about 4 years ago in 2007. The person I bought the property off declared that she had a couple of neighbour disputes regarding noise resulting in environmental health asking him to keep it down (in…
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TRYING to sell property in Bulgaria
Hi all, I am one of the thousands that bought a few years ago in Bulgaria and now needs to sell. I am fully aware that I will be taking a big hit on price and have accepted that. The trouble is that I am really struggling to find any estate agents that sell there without demanding things like listing fees upfront etc. Has…
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Places to find private landlords?
So I've spent over 5 months looking for somewhere and still to no avail, around here there is nothing at the moment. I've been using rightmove, findaproperty, checking shop windows, checking the local paper and still nothing. Does anyone know any other websites etc? I'm getting really desperate now as baby due end of July.
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Renting/letting questions
Hi We are in the process of letting our house, have our 1st viewer later. We were told by the EA to put available now although really its not till 14th May (if needs must I could move in with my MIL) When we get someone who wants it, we then have to find somewhere to rent ourselves so time it all up together, its also a…
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to buy or to rent???
Hi I am 44 years old and my partner is 41 we both have our own houses we live in hers and rent mine we were going to wait till market gets better and then sell both houses and buy one together but have been asked the question why don't we sell up pay off mortgages and keep lump sum cash of about 60 grand at present prices…
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Council Tax in new house
i was just wondering, if i purchased a house and did not live there for a few months. would i be asked to pay council tax or anything else apart from mortgage ? Also what are the rules around this.
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"Tenants in Common"- does it work?
Hello everyone, my first post. My wife and I are jointly buying our house. We have been approached by a firm of solicitors to set up "tenants in common" on the basis that this would enable us to avoid having to sell the house in future to meet care home costs. To be precise I believe we can safeguard 50% of the house value…
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Tenancy Agreements
Ok me and boyfriend are looking into moving into our first flat together. Now i was frauded and at the moment because of it have a default on my credit file. Im just worried this will affect us getting the property. In terms of tenancy agreements is there one where he could be the first person on it and me written down as…
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newly rented property, landlords responsibility for state of property
hi Will keep it brief. I have just undertook new tenancy for 6 months max as had to relocate for other commitments. Property viewed and fit bill, it was failrly cheap in comparision and in good location. Signed contract/lease/tenancy on friday and paid 6 months lease. After gpoing back to property for only the second time…
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House move advice
Hello, I wondered if I might seek some advice please? I changed jobs to a much better one two years ago and love my new place which is a secure job with pension. The downside is that I commute by train which isn't that reliable and very pricey. We've decided to make a move that takes me 20 miles closer and within a 20 mile…
