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Selling - would you agree to cost guarantee?
Hi, I have been asked by a prospect buyer to agree to a 'cost guarantee'. Which I've been told is if any of the party withdraw they will need to cover reasonable cost of the other party. I don't have a problem with it in principle as I'm a fairly committed seller. But it does cover buyers more than myself as they are…
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Who does the price renogtiating after a survey?
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Council flat help !!!!!
Hi About two years ago me and my wife have council flat. But shes left me and shes went back to Poland. Contract is still on our name we have divorce now. Dont know what to do i want to keep flat but is true that, if i tell them that i am living my own now, they can take off it from me? Sorry for my english but i really…
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How long have you been searching for a home?
Saw a property that I thought ticked all the boxes, but the garden won't get any sun in the evening when I get home from work or even from 4 O'clock onwards as it dips behind the house.:cool: Its a new build and a real bargain but I'm not sure I'm prepared to compromise. Getting really fed up with searching now as there…
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Rental Income and Allowances
My husband and I moved in together after our wedding (my house) and we now rent out his flat. He has found a good tenant who intends to be there for a few years. Rental Income about £5,500 - taxable about £3,500 I am shortly going to finish working full time and will not use my full tax allowances so (I think) we want to…
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Is it gazumping??
We are homemovers and found our dream house recently. Although we haven't sold ours yet, we put in an offer that was accepted subject to sale of our property. A week later and I've just had a call to say that a buyer in rented has put in an offer. The estate agent's exact words were 'so the property is now under offer'. I…
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Leafleting a street with 2 properties already being marketed?
We've had an offer on our house which will be accepted, but we've found nothing we want to buy despite looking for a few months. So, following Az's example, we've decided to try leafleting. Leaflets are printing right now and I have a 'hit list' of about fifty houses BUT a few houses we want to leaflet are right next door…
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House purchase - which lawyers
Getting my first house, however quotes from conveyancing people vary a lot and the estate agent is recommending someone local. Does anyone have any recommendations for one to use? Also is price the best indicator of who to use or is it all much of a muchness? MSE recommends Abode and Conveyancing warehouse. Does anyone…
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Cost of subterranean build?
Came across an interesting property, the Mrs Funky is interested in Basically, it has full PP to convert the existing Church building to residential use and to create an adjoining sub ground living area with a sunken garden (access through the church or down steps The building will come 50mm out of the ground, so therefore…
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Help!!! Solicitors refuse to phone each other
Please help!!! I am trying to sell my flat and for the past two weeks the solicitors have been sending the same enquiries back and forth. My soliciot states that they have sent through answers to all enquiries but the buyers solicitor says four enquiries are still outstanding. For the past two weeks I have been asking the…
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Short Term Let
Just want to be sure of my facts before I go in all guns blazing. We have a PhD student coming to work with us for three months from another European country. He has to pay his own expenses and does not have a lot of money. My employer has an in-house lettings agency who have previously organised accommodation for people…
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Buying repossesed property. Please help!
I am trying to buy a repossesed property, but have been 'on hold' for over a month and a half, because the previous owner was supposed to pay the council a discount. The house was taken off him and put on the market. Apparently, the bank that took the property off him didn't realise that this discount needs to be paid and…
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Small holding single farm payment query
How do single farm payments work? I assumed you just transfered them when you sold ... "The land is registered with DEFRA for the Single Farm Payment, which is reserved to the vendor for 2011. Entitlements can be transferred to the purchaser at Market Value for 2012 should the purchasers elect to take them at the time of…
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House valuation less than offer price
Hi, first time poster here, so apologies for errors! I wonder if somebody could offer some sensible advice for me with regards to an apartment purchase. I recently put an offer in on an apartment I really liked, it was accepted but the valuation came back £7.5k less than what I offered. The estate agent was shocked by this…
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Transfer to solicitor
Hi all, We are buying a house and our solicitor said he's expecting the exchange to be done in next week. So we are now preparing to do transfer of deposit to the solicitor. And we have this rather odd question:p....do people get receipt for the payment made to solicitor? Or is the records on our bank statements enough to…
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Wrong board, please ignore!
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Selling or Renting dilemna
I am hoping some of you might be able to cast some light on our current dilemma; I’ll try to add as much info as possible). My husband and I currently own an end-of-terrace house in a leafy Glasgow suburb. We purchased the house for £150k mid-2007, and still owe our lender £105k (approx 79% LTV) over the next 15.5 years…
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Playing the offers game...
So my OH and I have found "the" house. I've been browsing the market for a while before we got started and yesterday we went to view it. We've gone through our figures a few times and whereas we have had a mortgage offer of up to £215k (including our deposit) we initially decided to look up to the £200k mark. After much…
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Exchange and Completion
Hi Guys Bit of a long post. We had an our offer accepted in January and things have been slowly moving towards a completion date. The house is a divorce home with the Wife still living in the house, but having to sell as they can not afford to buy out thier ex's share. From what we can gather she is not too keen to move…
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Succession rules in Italy
Good morning, I am new on the web site and I hope there is someone who can help me...I am not sure if the topic suits the usual discussions on this forum. Anyway I try, since I need actually an important advice...So, my father who is Italian – I am English – told me that no property would have been transmitted to me after…
