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Is Building Regs Compliance Certificate a legal requirement?
Is it a legal requirement to supply a buyer with the Building Regulations Compliance certificate for a boiler that has been fitted? I'm selling my flat and have to exchange contracts by 27th June, otherwise my sale and my purchase will both fall through. My solicitor has asked me to provide the compliance certificate for a…
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making an offer how to?
Wondering if anyone has any advice: We have decided we will go through and possibly put an offer on a property after having another viewing yesterday. The property is on for 114, 950, we have been shown around now by the vendor, she seems lovely, they need to move on quickly as they already have another property to go to,…
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What to offer?
Hi everyone, I'm hoping to purchase my first house soon. It is a 3 bed semi-detached without parking or garage and the asking price is £119,950. I have been informed by reliable sources that a property of its kind in that area would be more likely to be actually worth £105,000 and as such made an offer to that effect this…
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Student Rental HELP!!!!
I am currently a student living in a private rented house. I was in a contract from 1st September 2012- 1st September 2013; however due to a change in circumstances, I wished to vacate the property on the 1st July 2013. The estate agent advised me to find a replacement tenant who would take over my contract for these…
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Is it normally thins slow.
We put in an offer over 6 weeks ago and this was accepted. So far we are still waiting for the vendor solicitors to send a draft contract. We have of course contacted our solicitor and were informed they will follow thins up. The EAs have yet to return our calls. So my question is, does it normally take this long?…
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Valuation Report results and delays?
I am currently in the process of buying a house off my uncle which is a 1950's semi detached but has been totally gutted out within the last 3 years and refurbished with brand new wiring and heating, plastering and doors etc. I have just received the valuation report back though which states two matters affecting value: 1.…
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Unoccupied property insurance
Can anyone recommend any decent brokers or websites whom deal with insuring an empty property? I know this is a niche market so was wondering if anyone had used any insurance companies in the past. Property is likely to be vacant for another 12 months whilst refurbishment work is completed and house is then sold.
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keeping tenants after buying a property
Hi there, I have just completed on a property which has existing tenants whose tenancy is ending in 1 week. The initial tenancy was an agreement through a lettings agency. The tenants have indicated that they would like to stay on but at a reduced rent. We are willing to facilitate this as the agency fee we will save by…
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leaving rented accomodation
I am leaving my rented house soon. When I moved in the house was in a bit of a state after the last people. It said on the inventory that they would paint certain rooms and replace the carpets. I noted down all the marks etc when I moved . Am I obliged to redecorate all the rooms apart from ones they were meant to do. Or…
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few questions on moving date
we are only waiting for confirmation of lease which should be with our solicitor tomorrow, then all enquiries, mortgage offers are sorted, our solicitor is quite far away from us so they would have to post for us to sign any documents, is this the point we have exchanged and second question we have 4 in our chain, so when…
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Dodgy Estate Agents?
My house went on the market late on Thursday and had many viewings on Friday and Saturday morning. The property was listed with a guide price of £220k - £225K. By the end of Saturday the agent rang me to say that they had had loads of offers but the highest was £226k. We were over the moon with that but the agent said that…
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share of freehold and building an extension
Hi, just a quick question. My building is split into three flats. I own a 50% share of freehold, owners of the flat below me own the other half. We havent formed a freehold company or anything. The owners of the downstairs flat have sent me a note saying they are planning an extension to their flat (using their garden…
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Pulling out after offer accepted
I made an offer on a house last week which was then accepted. Now the estate agent of another property that I viewed, which was around the same price but not as good, has come back saying they are dropping their asking price significantly, about 15% lower. Is it good business at this stage to pull out of my purchase? Or at…
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Completion Date???
Hi Just wondering if someone could offer some advice to a first time buyer..... Currently buying a two bed flat and are well underway. We have signed the mortgage deeds and our contracts and given notice on our rented property. This would mean an ideal move out date of 12th July. All was fine until this weekend when I had…
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Help regarding non rent payments
Hi guys! So here it goes! any advice good or bad please! :o Me and my "Friend" moved into a flat last august everything was going great! until...he started injecting himself with steroids and taking steroid pills,the guy became unbelievable he would flip out at me over the smallest of things! one of them been a tin of "34p…
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Leasehold extension on a Maisonette, advice required please!
Hi Everyone Im currently looking into extending the lease on my 1 bedroom Maisonette and could really do with some advice! I own and have lived in my one bedroom maisonette (one of 4) in Greater Manchester for almost 9 years and it has recently come to my attention that the lease has 68.3 years remaining, the impact of…
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Mortgage and Loan
Hi I wonder if anybody can help me and my partner in a messy situation.... My partners ex wife lives in their family house with their child. My partner has his child 50% of the time (2 day rota). When he left 2 year ago he left her with everything including car and all contents of house and went back to live with his mum.…
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How do I enforce a restrictive covenant?
We live next door to a grade 2 listed cottage which has a large front garden. The current owners are selling the bit of garden closest to us as a building plot without planning permission. The cottage and rest of garden is being sold seperately. We will be objecting to the planning permission as building a house there…
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Section 21 not received
Long history won't bore you with it, but I'm fuming. I'm in a rented property, moving to a bought house soon I hope. LL put house up for sale insisted it being sold as investment with tenant. Bridgfords marketed it as vacant profession. House sold. I found out today that bridgfords told LL all offers they received were…
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Will I EVER be able to buy a house?
Hi, I'd quite like to move out of my mothers house in the next couple of years, the problem is my job pays £15,000 and where I live houses are quite expensive (Warwickshire). My question is with a salary of £15,000 would I ever be able to get a mortgage for a house? Obviously I'll never be able to buy a house outright,…
