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Anyone familiar with Tattenham Corner area
Hi, I am in the process of 2nd viewing a property very close to Tattenham corner station (less than a mile away). I did some search online and it seems to be a nice suburban area but would be great to have some input (positive and negative) from people who live nearby or have knowledge about the area. Any comment is highly…
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Marketing Shared ownership House
Hi all, About 5 years ago we bought 60% of a shared ownership house in east London. We are about to try and sell our share and wondered if anyone had any experience/tips on selling a shared ownership property? While in many ways its a nice problem to have, the property has become quite valuable and is most likely now too…
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Reasonable time to look for property
If you've accepted an offer on your property and there is chain ready to move on and it all hinges on you, how long would buyers wait? We're concerned that as we're relocating it may take us a while to find our next home. We have already made 2 trips to our desired county with another planned tomorrow. If we don't find…
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Buying property with adjoining field
Hi All, I've had an offer accepted on a property. In the information from the solicitor there are 2 titles, one for the property and one for the adjoining small field. We are buying both for the agreed price. Does anyone know how the purchase price would be split between the property and field? It occurred to me that if we…
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Help to buy newbuild - costs other than mortage...
Hi, I was hoping somebody could give me an idea of the costs involved with buying a HTB property. Of course there's the 5% deposit, but what costs can be expected for the actual mortgage, surveys, etc. We were planning on buying a house next year, but I am seeing an alarmingly large number of sources predicting a sharp…
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Thoughts Please..
Hello, I am a FTB and my partner and I have recently found a property that we are currently bidding towards / making offers. The property is advertised up at 175,950. We viewed the property on 03/05/2013. Made an offer on 160,000 on 04/05/2013. This offer was declined. On the same day we offered 165,000. We then heard…
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"cowboy letting agents draw huge increase in complaints" - Scotland
Today's Glasgow Herald has a front page article on the lack of regulation of Letting Agents in Scotland Comments reported from Graeme Brown director of Shelter Scotland:“.... letting agents have been allowed to carry on in an unregulated sector reminiscent of the Wild West, with the flagrant disregard for the law by some…
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Leasehold house - would you buy?
Simple question, I hope. Apart from the issues of having to pay ground rent and possibly service charges, are there any other problems when buying a leasehold house? For instance is it as easy to get a mortgage on this sort of property and would resale be more difficult?
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Advise on rental situation with local estate agents
Hi Everyone, I have had a quick browse through the threads to see if this issue has already been raised, but couldn't find anything. Hopefully there is someone on here who can help with a semi-worrying problem and suggest a way to get out of this situation. Me and My other half found a home that we both thought was…
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Advice on selling home to developers please!
Hi My father wants to sell his house but his garden is very long, and has potential for development. His three neighbours are all willing to sell half their own gardens too. In fact he was approached 3 years ago by a developer who wanted his garden and house for access to a development. He didn't want to move at the time…
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Is Homecheck.co.uk information reliable
Was reading Matrin's top 50 tips for buying a property and one of them is to use homecheck.co.uk to check various aspects of the property before doing a home survery. Homecheck gives three 'worrying' feedback of the property I was checking. 1. Moderate risk of subsidence 2. High risk of Historical industry land 3. High…
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Renting a room with a convector heater - what can I do to keep costs down?
I am thinking of renting a bedroom but I have Economy 7 heating and in the bedrooms there are convector heaters which can be very expensive to run. I'm pretty careful with managing my energy bills because I'm on a low income and I'm worried that a lodger could run up a big bill and am trying to think of a workable…
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Tenant owing rent.
I have a tenant who has been renting a house from me for nine months, he owes 4 months rent. I have given him 2 months notice to quit. Can I apply now to the small claims court for recovery of the outstanding rent or do I have to wait until he moves out?
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Roof check
After buying my house I see some buckets in the loft leading me to doubt if there is any leakage. It very hard to access and unable to see anything as I have never dealt with roof issue in my life. Is there a way to get my roof checked for any leakage or potential problem in next few months which I could get it fixed…
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Cost of clearing a small structure
I've got this WW 2 cattle air bed in the corner of my garden. It is 6 feet all around. What sort of cost am I looking get it removed.
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Private Landlords in Cirencester....where are they?
Hi Guys, Im moving to Cirencester next week and need to find somewhere to live pretty sharpish. Ive tried Rightmove, and found a couple of places, but nothing that seems great. Is there somewhere I can find out about some local private landlords? or can someone else recommend a good site to find a rental property? cheers
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Letting Agent recommendation: Edinburgh?
Moving to Edinburgh in 3 weeks and I haven't sorted my apartment yet :eek: Start job 28th. Can anyone recommend any decent letting agents/websites? My back up plan is to live with family and commute however would prefer to find something ASAP.
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Buying house in Scotland: Brick v.s. Timber Framed?
Hi All, My partner and I have been thinking of owning our first house to start a family quite a while... Recently we started viewing some houses. We found a lovely one but it was built using wood (timber framed?). We are not very sure if houses built from wood materials would be safe and nice to have? (we are first time…
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Reducing Buying Price after Mortgage Offered?!?!
Hi, My fianc! and I have had an offer accepted, got the AIP, had a homebuyers survey which didn't throw up anything too unexpected, so got the mortgage offer and are about ready to exchange. However.... We got a damp proofer and a builder in to quote for work and it transpires that what the survey said was damp which would…
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Neighbour's planning application
My hopes to market our house ?scuppered by new neighbour's so far 8 month planning application: First application refused - appeal made - while awaiting appeal decision, new identical second application made -original first application appeal then refused - second ongoing application now "amended"/radically altered a week…
