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Refused tenancy - a minor rant!
Just a little rant on an annoying property search! I am in the process of trying to rent a property in Central London. As you can imagine the prices are not cheap to say the least. I am (luckily) a mortgage free householder, my partner and myself both have senior positions and have a combined income in excess of £100K. We…
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No adress for landlord and unable to get him to do repairs
I hope someone here can help a work collegue - I have never rented so can't advise her but I knew some lovely people here that might have some answers. My colleque has lived in this property for 2 years - and has only ever had an email and mobile phone number no address, she has had some issues over a period of months with…
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Better Offer Problem
Hi we're currently selling our home and have verbally accepted an offer (quite low) about 2 weeks ago. This buyer has neither a mortgage in place or a solicitor instructed and they don't seem to be in a great rush to do so. Today we've been made a better offer on the house through another EA. Will we owe the original EA…
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4 Year Rule in Conservation Area
Hi, My (single dwelling) house is within a conservation area in the London Borough of Brent. I added a rear extension to the house under the 10% Permitted Development rules that applied before 1st October 2008 starting the works in early September. I applied to the Council for a certificate of Lawfulness in August 2008 but…
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Anyone used a Tree Consultant to advise on trees near to a property prior to offer?
The trees are mature at least the height of the chalet bungalow. The willow is about 11m away from the house and the oak about the same or a little further away. There are also 2 large conifers both nearer to the property. Currently in drought here after 3 successive dry winters. I have emailed a couple of tree consultants…
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Should I (and could I) get a mortgage?
Ok, due to an inheritance, this is my situation: I own a small flat in Leeds valued at 70k, and also have just bought my housing assoc maisonette in small town near Leeds valued at 60k, which I will not be able to sell for 5 years. I additionally have 80k capital. The small flat in Leeds I have been using as a pied a terre…
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Charge on property discovered on moving day
I'm hoping someone can advise on a situaution that my brother and his partner find themselves in. They are buying for cash a house funded by the sale of one of their houses and savings. They exchanged contracts on Wednesday 30th and were due to complete and move in the following day (yes, I appreciate this was rash but…
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Selling to a neighbour.......
Hi All, I'm looking for some advice..............here's the story!!! I currently live in a ground floor 2 bed flat - I need to sell this as our family has outgrown the space. There is an "older" lady who lives on the top (2nd) floor who has problems with her knees and I know she definitely would prefer a ground floor flat.…
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leasehold stress
Hi I posted around a month ago to say that my buyer was demanding that I extend the leasehold on my house to 999 years (was 99 years!). We are now in the middle of the process but having no support from the solicitor who is really difficult to gain contact with, never mind get information from! Anyway the local council are…
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New rented flat - dirt, damage issues.
Hi all, hope you are well. I am due to sign a contract and get the keys for a new rented apartment on Wednesday. I viewed the apartment over a month ago when it was still occupied and then viewed it on Tuesday of this week a day after they had vacated the property. On viewing for a second time, there were dirty marked…
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Mutual Support for House-sellers - anyone interested?
We are in the process of sorting out our house to put it on the market in the summer. Of course, we could get everything spot on and sell to the first person who comes to view, the day after the board goes up (or even before). But back in the real world, it is more likely to be miserable, long-drawn out and frustrating. If…
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Land and boundary issues with new house purchase
Hi there, I’m the majority of the way through the house buying process, but have hit a stumbling block with land and boundaries. The vendors, or ‘The Chuckle Brothers’ as they should perhaps be known as, have allocated a large section of land to my plot. In the ‘complex’ there are 2 rows of 3 houses, with my plot being an…
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Outrageous admin fees! Help needed!
I've been reading through the forum a little and couldn't quite find something like what's happening to myself and my partner at the moment. Basically the estate agent myself and my partner are going through to rent a 3 bed house at £900 a month in Basingstoke, have decided to charge us a £540 (inc VAT) admin fee (40% of…
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Should we tell?
Hi Guys We have handed in notice at our current property, and will probably end up doing the viewings. The property has a cesspool which costs between £65.00 -95.00 per month to empty. We were only told about this after we had agreed to take the property, paid the depsosits, and handed in our notice. Our neighbours were…
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Avice on Handling Rapacious Freeholder
I own the lease on a small rental flat that bought 7 years ago. I've had no problems with the freeholder (Avonbraid through henchmen, E&M) until recently when they suddenly starting demanding money for my tenant to enter into "covenant" with them. They're currently asking £99.75 every time I renew the tenancy or get…
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Withdrawing notice to quit
We have been renting a house for 18mths now and have rolled on to a periodic tenancy. When we moved in we were advised our LL was away doing a PHD for 2 or 3 yrs. As we are approaching the 2yrs we asked our agent for an update on her intentions to return - we didn't want to suddenly only have 2 months to find somewhere in…
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Help want to sell my share of inherited property
Hi Basically my mother passed away and me and my 3 siblings have been left a share of her property which is mortgage free. Basically two of us want to sell our share and the other two want to keep the house. The house is valued at around £650,000. My brothers who want to keep the house are offering to buy our share for…
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Ending a AST
Hi Local council has offered me a disabled friendly bungalow out of the blue, wasnt expecting to be even offered anything so soon they told me at least two years on waiting list. I have just signed a new 6month AST tenancy on my present 2 bed property, small detached cottage tye terrace place, beautiful with brilliant…
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1st time buying a flat - and so so sorry for this!!!
Greetings from New York. I have decided I wanted to invest in the UK and buy a property with all my savings, which is a huge huge amount for me, but I figured London is a safe place and I've done lots of research before doing it. I managed to save around $600,000 - and about 2-3 weeks ago I converted that money to £370,000…
