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Selling shared equity home
I'm selling a home which has the Charles church shared equity scheme on it, is it straightforward it does say they may send a valuer out to value the home. They have 15% equity in the house. I paid £120,00 for The house 20k deposit 80k mortgage and the rest was the shared equity. I had the property valued last week and…
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Grade II Listed: to buy or not to buy?
OK, so I've found wonderful house to modernise (in London, on budget at c.£300k). It's a probate sale being handled by executors of a will. Wife and I made a reasonable offer which was accepted. A few days later I established that it was actually Grade II Listed, something was not mentioned by the Estate Agent and I…
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Freehold property (not new build) leasehold garages..?
Hi This is my first post- I hope it's in the right place! The house we wish to buy is a freehold semi-detached property which comes with 2 leasehold garages, detached but accessed through a door in the garden. According to the estate agent and owner, the garages are on a 50 year lease and there is a 'peppercorn' rent of £2…
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landlord wont return deposit
so i moved out after the bombshell of my landlord wanting to sell the house- thanks to the advise on here the landlord agreed to a mutual termination. there was no inventory or pre-move in check on taking out the rental agreement 7 years ago & i moved out reasonably smoothly. had a company come & clear rubbish from the…
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Garden assigned to tenancy
My family and I live in a rented 2 bed bungalow. The kitchen has a door which leads out to a fenced in Garden. This garden isn't assigned to the tenancy, and the landlord is now claiming that it is communal gardens (we live on a site with 52 flats). They are now re-developing and are building 52 new flats and demolishing…
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landlard tenant deposit dispute without a tenancy agreement
we moved out of a rented property after 3yrs 9 months. we had a very good relationship with landlady but she turned very nasty the minute we stepped out. she is claiming malicious and intentional damage to her property and saying we left it completely trashed. regrettably we did not do an inventory with her on leaving but…
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Where are the best places to find garages for sale?
Hi, i've tried Gumtree, Loot, RightMove, Friday ad and some auction sites, are there any other places they routinely come up? Im just looking for extra places..i want the garage for storage of motorcycles. I know they can fetch from as little as a few grand up to tens of thousands, im looking at spending about 7k for a…
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Anyone managed to secure an offer and end up buying when not sold?
Anyone managed to secure an offer and end up buying when originally not sold?
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technical help: property bee
i found out about property bee from here, but with latest firefox 15.0 i can't seem to get it to work ive checked tools - add ons - and it's there but how do i get it to the shortcut bar to load it?
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1st time renting, bit worried about credit checks...any advice pls?
We have just exchangd on the sale of our flat, we sold because we need more room with 2 chilren and are in abit of debt. we are walking away with £10'000 profit which will help a great deal. we are going into rental because of not being able to get a higher morgage. We have found somewhere and are just going through the…
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Getting the kids on the housing ladder.
I have two children who are now young adults.There is very little prospect of them ever being able to buy a suitable property without help. I have no significant savings to assist. But I have equity (I estimate £350,000) in my house and a reletivley small and decreasing mortgage. What can I do to help? I know I could…
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Rent To Buy Advice
Evening all. Just wanted to get a bit of advice in relation to rent to buy schemes. I've done a lot of research on this and feel this is our only way of getting onto the property market. Having a new daughter I want to put roots down and get on the ladder. Essential you rent the property for a portion of the rental value…
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Thoughts and Ideas appreciated regarding buying parents house
Hi there. Right, its a long one, and i hope you will perservere with me as i could really do with some advice. I and my husband currently own our own house. We just had it valued, and we have about £30000 equity in it. We love the house, but unfortunately the catchment area for schools is pretty poor. My parents live in a…
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Do i pay capital gains tax or inheritance tax?
My mum and dad souly brought a house over 20 years ago. Only my mums name is on the house though as ownership. My mum, dad and myself use to live in the property. My grandad had his name put on the house about 15 years, but has never lived in the house. Just over a year ago my grandad took his name off the house and i had…
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Life and building insurance house buying
Hi today i made my application for mortgage the mortgage advisor quoted me £15.96 for life insurance and building insurance for 31 pounds i think these are pretty high please share your thoughts
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Should I reduce my offer to compensate?
Typo typo tupo
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Estate agent has conflicting moving in date - what are my rights?
I have found accommodation to rent and so far I have paid the estate agent fees and the accommodation reservation fee. Before I paid the fee and received a printed receipt, I made it very clear to the estate agent that I required the property by a certain date (not a day later), and I made the estate agent write this date…
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Embarrassing viewings...
When we were trying to sell our house, we made sure we were out of the way so EA could show viewers round. When we got back, we discovered to our horror a decimated bird smeared right across on our kitchen floor. :eek: Our lovely cat had obviously decided to sabotage the viewing, the little sod had never caught anything…
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conveyancing fees - selling only
i posted this in wrong place originally. hope this works now.... Hi, I'm desperate for some sound advice re solicitors/conveyancing fees as this is the first time i am selling only. the estate agent of course would like me to use the one they recommend but i said i wanted to get other quotes following the one i got from…
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Delayed completion
We were in a chain and completed our house sale on the agreed date. There was however problems with the removal firm we hired (they had 2 other jobs on) and we ended up having to use the buyers removal firm to vacate the property, which we paid for. This led to a delay in the actual move. The buyers were wanting to be in…
