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Landlord and Tenant Act 1987 compensation
A relative of mine is a protected tenant; circa 30 years. He received notification from his landlord , a housing trust that the property would be put up for auction giving him less than 2 months notice.All they stated was that a board would be put up and to allow a surveyor in. He complied with this and the property was…
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Does My Landlord (Social Housing) Have to Comply With Freedom if Information Requests
Hello. I live in social housing and my landlord, Wakefield and District Housing, is being tight lipped about certain spending and won't let me know how much is being spent on certain areas. I've tried to find out if I can get them to disclose this via a freedom of information request but they are a registered charity that…
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Indemnity against management company going bust?
Hi all, We are due to complete a sale in about 10 days. The solicitor has just flagged up a problem with our current lease and say it is defective. The problem is the lease makes no provision for what would happen if the management company goes bust. This could affect the purchase of buildings insurance and therefore the…
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Help needed with viewing/offer!!!!!!
Hi, My husband and I are viewing a house today at 2pm. The house is on for £250k, is a 3 bed semi. I thought we were only viewing today as it only came on rightmove yesterday but by chance one of my brother in laws work colleagues mentioned to him that she too is viewing the house on Friday and the only reason that she…
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indemnity insurances for property seller?
selling a straightforward apartment, in a block, no other recent buyers/sellers in the block seem to have encountered this issue. The other party's solicitors asking fees for; Indemnity insurance, as the search they did was 'defective'. Asbestos and fire risk survey fee. Indemnity insurance, as they say that there does not…
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How long to exchange after searches etc?
Hi all, Long time lurker but first time poster. We are FTBs - put offer in end of march, which was accepted same day. Had survey and all searches back a while ago, and no further queries raised. The house is from a deceased estate and we have been waiting for grant of probate to come through before we could exchange. The…
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Home Buyers Report
I have just had an offer accepted on my first house and I am now in the process of trying to arrange a homebuyers report. I know that our mortgage lender will be going to do a survey purely for valuation of the house and that we should still get a separate home buyers report. My mortgage broker has mentioned that I could…
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Inherited house sale...
Morning all, been a long time! Anyway, the basic plot is: Father-in-law passed Nov 2011. Estate left to the current mrs theboylard, which includes the family home. Probate all done and dusted in 7 weeks. Spent a bit of money on the house - new kitchen, decorating throughout, cheap new carpets, new roof (flat roof :( ) We…
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Crazy EA tactics?
After reading Nickmack's thread re: estate agents mind games, an episode came to mind from a few years ago when we last sold and wondered if anyone else had any examples of 'mad' marketing...! We signed up with the local EA, literally two minutes around the corner from the house. They were a typical EA, no crazy gimmicks…
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Previous owners debt now causing us problems
Hi, I have just moved into a property that we bought from a developer, who in turn bought it as a repossession and we are continually getting the repossessed owner's demand letters etc. I have been writing 'No longer lives at this address' etc & returning to senders unopened, but now I've had bailiffs round whilst I've…
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stolen money
First post & I really need some help! I arranged for a Home Report with a firm of surveyors. Survey went fine and got the report ok. Fairly basic looking but you get what you pay for. I noticed a day later that some money was missing from my bedroom. I haven't had any other visitors and there is no-one else here in my…
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Estate agents playing hardball over desposit repayment
I've been given the runaround by an estate agent in regard to receiving my deposit back on a flat I had on a short tenancy (6months). I moved out and handed the keys back on 3rd April which was in the agreed time. The flat was left clean and as far as I am aware there are no issues, and therefore no deductions to my…
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Value for money
Just gauging the water - is a £200k nice three bedroom flat in a nice area good value for money, for a couple with joint income of £60k? Could get just as nice a flat (or even house) in a less nice but not terrible area for maybe £20-30k less, which means we could retire a few years earlier, but we'll be living there for a…
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Renting out our flat...help please :)
Morning, Our apartment has been on the market since January, we went with a local agent as they only charge 1%...but they specialise in rentals. We were in a contract and couldn't put it on the market with anyone else until week 16. We had around 7 viewings with them but I felt as though they weren't trying hard enough to…
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Life cover for mortgage - some questions
Hi all, We applied for life insurance for the mortgage amount. We were quoted £24 a month for 2 adults with no exisiting medical conditions (non smokers and no alcohol). We applied via moneysupermarket and we are being asked to take medical tests. This is for decreasing amount cover. Does the quote sound reasonable? Shall…
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freeholder/leaseholder carried out structural alterations without permission
In a property of several flats in a Victorian conversion - where the leaseholders also have a share of the freehold and have set up a Ltd company to mange the property, of which they are directors - how much does it matter if one of the leaseholders/freeholders failed to get plans for structural alterations approved in…
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Share of Freehold division of costs between two flats
I’ve recently moved into a share of freehold converted flat having owned two freehold houses before. There are just two flats in the building although mine is smaller – one bed as opposed to a three bed maisonette, with a rebuild cost ratio of approximately one third to two thirds for the maisonette. There is nothing in my…
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Conveyancer not being updated by rest of chain
Some of you may already know I'm having problems with my house purchase. I'm a FTB and obviously at the bottom of the chain. The top of the chain are digging their heels in trying to delay completion by 2 months (ourselves, our vendor and vendor's vendor are ready to exchange and complete straight away, and this has been…
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Reducing to Stamp Duty threshold
Just switched estate agent and like previous they're saying price of 132k - which is less than we thought we'd get - is too close yo the SD threshold and that buyers will expect it for 125k. He says options are reduce to 129.5k and expect 125k or reduce to 125k no offers - he believes that will get house sold in a few…
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Existing solar panels.House purchase?
Could someone clarify the position regarding solar panels on a house purchase?As an example---- All I understand is that the existing owner has entered a contract for probably 25yrs,and when the house is sold the new owner takes on the remaining years of the contract.This presumably affects the purchase price,unless you…
