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How to make joint sole agents work harder? Urgent, help pls!
My company is considering selecting 2 estate agencies as our joint sale agents. We hope to take advantage of their customer database. They will cooperate to do the marketing campaign for our company and share the commission on the 60:30 basis with the larger proportion for the one who introduces customer. However, the…
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Understanding EA's
We are thinking of selling our house and upsizing. At present we are just searching online to see what is about in our price range. We are looking to spend about £250K to £260K. Looking on a local agents website, we come across a house priced as 'guide price £295K with no upward chain'. From the pictures, the house needs…
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Joint and Several Liability - any way round it?
I was in a joint tenancy from August 2010 up until 5th August 2011 with 3 other tenants, jointly and severally liable on a joint tenancy. One tenant did not pay his rent since February. The letting agency did nothing about this until the last month or so of the tenancy. Two different people also ended their tenancy there…
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Conveyancer or Solicitor
The house is in both my and my ex's name, its on the market and have a serious buyer, cross fingers. Through lots of negotiation my ex and myself have agreed that he keeps the other house and I keep the proceeds from the one that is up for sale, the one I am living in at the moment, I make no claim on the other house and…
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Trying to sell my house
Arrrgghhh...... My house has been on the market for just over 6 months, we have had about 4 viewings. A nice man put in an offer, we declined the very low offer, he reoffered more - we accepted. the man has now vanished! his mortgage was declined, so he went looking for another, that was 2 weeks ago and noone has heard…
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2 Months' Rent Up Front - No Bond
Hi, I'm on the verge of signing a rental agreement with an agent (Morfitt Shaw, based in Leeds, could find no reviews of any kind online), but they've just told me that I'll be expected to pay 2 months' rent up front and no bond. I was expecting an arrangement that utilised the deposit scheme so this was surprising, but I…
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Tenancy agreement
Hi help advice needed please. My Daughter who is a student signed a tenancy agreement with 3 other girls back in February 2011 for a property to rent in Sept 2011. The other girls have moved to different Universitys now and found some other people to take over the tenancy. The letting agent said no because they had no…
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Rough Idea of cost of Selling a House???
Hi All I'm posting up on behalf of my motehr who is in the process of trying to sell what was her parents house. The estate agents charge 1.5% which is fine but can anyone give me a rough ball park figure of how much it might cost for the solicitors etc? The house is valued at approx £285,000 if that makes any difference.…
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Financing purchase of second house to renovating and sell
Hi all, I'm after some advise on an idea I'm looking in to regarding developing/renovating a property. Myself and my partner recently built our first home and we've always toyed with the idea of getting in to property development and are in the process of remortgaging our self build mortgage to a standard fixed rate…
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Do you make offers on rented properties too?
I was just wondering whether it was standard practice to make an offer on a rented property like most people do when buying a property.
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Devastated
Hi, I recently viewed a house three times with my partner and decided to put in an offer, it was accepted and we started to sort all of the other stuff out like mortgage, insurance etc. We had paid for surveys as well... However we hadn't exchanged contracts just verbal ones. I recieved a call telling me they had withdrawn…
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Tips for moving to Rugby?
Well, I posted a while back about a dilemma over moving to somewhere that my wife and I could commute to our jobs in Birmingham and London respectively - in particular whether to rent or to buy. At the time we were considering Banbury. In short, we decided to rent - but Banbury is not looking so great for the commute to my…
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How much do you think the riots will effect house prices in Hackney
Hi I'm in the process of buying a two bedroom flat in hackney close to where the riots were last night. How much, if at all, do you think the value will have changed? I'm considering either pulling out altogether or revising my offer. Many thanks Chimp
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property price prediction after economy worries
Hi all, Just looking for some thoughts on this. I had an offer accepted on a house in Basingstoke South East a few weeks before the value of the economy started to slide. I am confident that the house is at least 20k under what other properties have been selling for in simialr areas but do you think we could be looking at…
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house guest over staying welcome
In April we allowed my partner's sister to come and live with us for a couple of months whilst she found her own place. She does pay us a small amount of rent for the room and her share of the bills but we have nothing in writing. Sisters being sisters though they have started to get on each others nerves and the tension…
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Need help with planning law advice
Can anyone point me in the direct of a good planning consultant/solicitor in the midlands. I need help objecting to full planning approval as i'm being fobbed off by planning office. I have no objection to a house being built but the proposed is awful on so many levels.
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selling dads house for care home !
my dad is in hospital and needs to be moved to a care home, they will fund it for 12 weeks, but then he will need to sell his house to fund the rest. He wanted us (his 3 kids) to have the proceeds of the house as our inheritance when he died. Will we get anything at all or will it all go to fund the care home ?:(
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Did I overpay?
If these were the selling prices for a postcode: 2001 - £72,000 2004 - £115,000 2007 - £132,250 2007 - £160,500 2008 - £154,500 & you bought a house for £113,500 that needed about £12,000 work doing would you consider you had a bargain?? I thought I had a bargain but people on this forum keep saying that you should offer…
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Selling house without estate agent
Hi all I have been getting my house ready for the market over the last few weeks and the estate agent we have chosen is due to come out tonight to take photos for the website/brochures etc. However, last night a couple appeared at our door saying they had heard we were selling up and were very interested in buying! They…
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Lease before exchange and completion?
Hi Guys, I have been presented a solution by my estate agents which I wanted to get some opinions on, my house sale has been ready for quite some time and purchase is taking a little longer due to the firm handling probate being utterly useless, ITC in Staffordshire. My estate agents have asked whether I would consider the…
