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Daily interest amounts (when should I pay my Solicitor)?
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Thinking about thinking about buying...
Hi all My wife and I are thinking about buying for the first time, and would like a bit of advice on whether we're dreaming when we think we could do this within a couple of years. We both have poor credit records, as she was a student when we met and remained so for about the next 4 years. Since we've now both been…
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Conditional offers? How to add safeguards?
I'm new to this whole property buying business and I'm confused about the order in which you do things! 1. Should you get a homebuyer survey BEFORE you start proceedings with the lender but AFTER the vendor has indicated that they accept your offer? 2. How do you add (and enforce) conditions like: - have the vendor remove…
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HELP NEEDED - LA obliged to offer reduction in rent ?
I was wondering if somebody could help me with the predicament I'm currently in with the apartment / flat that I rent. ABOUT THE APARTMENT: The price I pay for the apartment / flat is higher than what would be generally paid in the area (£500), this is because of the space in each room, car park space included and the size…
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Seller wants to take house of market!!
Found a gorgeuos house a few weeks ago and was pipped to the post as someone else put a offer in, which was accepted and sstc. we have trawled our area for houses and just cant find anything we like. Just out of interest i rang EA to see how the sale was going, to be told it had fallen through. My first thought was…
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Real log fire or fitted gas flame log fire? What's the best?
Asking this on behalf of a friend, to get as many views as poss.:) They have a very large two floor Victorian conversion in good road, area etc. Their main lounge is on the ground floor which leads to the garden and has a very nice fireplace with fake coalfire - they can't have a proper fire there as there's no flue. The…
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Good and Bad Letting Agents in London (Islington Specifically)
My girlfriend and I are starting to search for a rental property in the Islington/Dalston/Hackney/Bethnal Green sort of areas. Can anyone recommend any good letting agents to use and probably more usefully, which ones to avoid? Really worried about some agencies, like Foxtons, who charge obscene fees. Thanks for any replies
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Online conveyancing
can anyone recommend a cheap online conveyancer - i know they are slow but im hoping to sell 50% of my flat (its a shared ownership scheme) its already in negative equity so i can afford to pay loads for conveyancing so the cheaper the better really counts here. Im only selling not buying.
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Completing - do you need to be there?
Bit of a stupid Q but I've never bought any property before... When you complete do you need to be there? Physically? If not how quickly do you need to be there, as in it's in a different part of the country so may take time to get there.
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super slow unhelpful solicitors! (house buy/sell process)
Hello all, firstly, excuse the ranting tone that may be evident! OH and i are just at the end of our very last tether and are willing to try any suggestions! The situation is, we have had flat up for sale since january, and have lost both a flat buyer and a house that we loved. We found both again, and am desperately…
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Landlords Buildings Insurance
I have just received my buildings insurance renewal from my Landlord. This is mandatory and is negotiated by them as an overall policy that is shared out on a percentage basis to all the tenants. Now, the building is a mixture of retail units on the ground floor and residential maisonettes on the first floor, all tenants…
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Has anyone managed to swap houses even of different price?
A friend of a friend had a 3 bed and wanted to upsize They found a 5 bed in sale where they were struggling to shift due to the high end market so they swapped and paid on top. So They got the house they wanted and the other people shifted their house and gained a smaller one. Think they might have rented it out in the end…
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Has anyone heard of Invest Connect? Apparently...
...they have access to lots of auction houses and can get property for below market value for buyers before it goes into auction. A lot of the properties are reposessions. I had seen a property some weeks ago that I was interested in online and applied to view it and only just got a call from them saying property is gone…
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PP/Building regs for rear extension
Hi all, We are in the final stages of sorting out a contract for signing/exchange, and there are two issues around a rear extension (brick, ground floor but with pitched roof, built 2010). 1) No evidence that planning permission not required - in terms of floorspace the extension should fall under Permitted Development,…
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My landlord is in massive debt, where do I stand?
Hi, I hope you can help us. Me and my partner moved into our first home together at the end of February. Since then things have been pretty stressful. Originally, the landlords were letting through an agency, but the moment we had signed the contract, they ditched the agency and decided to go private and do it themselves.…
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buying a house keeping the tenant but not the agent
i have just bought an investment property with a longstanding tenant. I'd like to keep the tenant who would also like to stay. i would prefer to deal with the tenancy privately. however, the previous owner had a tenancy agreement with an agent. as i have bought the house does this tenancy agreement apply to me? how can i…
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Help! Can't help back my deposits from Foxtons
Dear all, It's been a week I still haven't got my deposits back from Foxtons since they failed to promise to delivery the flat I was supposed to rent. I asked my agent to give me back my deposits last friday on 31st August, 2012 and she said she passed the instruction to their account team on the same day and the action…
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Attempting to gauge value of dilapidated property.....
We have a very dilapidated house in our village - the thatched roof has caved in and has a whopping great hole where rain apparently runs straight into a bath in the room below :eek: Ever since we bought our house last year this property has been empty and whilst I understand it has previously been tenanted, there has been…
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environmental search fail
In the midst of buying a leasehold flat at the moment. The environmental search has apparently failed as it cant be confirmed that the property is free from contamination and my solicitor has recommended paying a one off fee for insurance. Have other people come across this and what are peoples thoughts please?
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Relaxed planning restrictions law - should we worry?
Hi guys Was listening to radio this morning when lot of people really concerned about the new law which relaxes planning restrictions. Basically from what i understand - this new law will allow homeowners to build extensions and conservatories of up to almost 30ft without permission. We are in the process of buying a…
