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Is this land mine now?
Hi. My house boarders a field and I've been maintaining an extra 6 feet or so depth by 50 feet length for over 18 years. I've trimmed the trees, levelled and seeded the ground and fenced it off. Some of my neighbours have also done some work on extra bits into the field but no one else has fenced it off. I'm about to put…
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House trashed by tenants
Hi I am hoping for some advice specific to my situation and my legal rights. I am a private landlord in Scotland and rented my flat out to a group of people for the last three years. For the first two there were no problems, they paid on time and I did annual inspections where all was well. The last inspection I did was…
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Capital Gains Tax on property given to me for free as a gift
My mother and father purchased a local authority three bedroom leasehold flat under the right to buy scheme many years ago. The overall cost was not too much so were able to buy it without a mortgage. My father passed away some years back. My mother then gave me the property in 2006 as a gift and came to live with me and…
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Completion ruined due to lender 'glitch'
Just wanted to rant as I'm really upset. Exchanged Monday night, completion set for today. All set and solicitor requested drawdown of mortgage for day before completion to be safe. By mid-morning today no funds had been sent. At lunchtime I get a message from solicitor saying that the lender has revoked the mortgage…
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house maintenance during selling process
Hello all, this is my first post but have been reading lots of threads on here for a few weeks. I am in the process of selling my house. I had an offer almost 6 weeks ago, which was about 10% below the asking price. I was happy to accept that because there is some work required on the property (it's a 210 year old house).…
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Stamp Duty Help on part ownership
Hi, Looking at purchasing a 50% share on a property of £280,000 so would be purchasing £140,000. Very confused over stamp duty. Aware the threshold is £250,000 and the property is over that but as the amount I am purchasing is under will it be applicable?? Just trying to find out if it is based on the property value or the…
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Emoov
Hi, looking to sell my house but don't want to pay the 1% fee that most estate agents charge. Just wondering if anyone has heard of emoov and if they're reliable/any good? Kind of worried it is a scam but there are quite a few positive reviews about them over the Internet
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Unregistered title
Hi, We are in the process of buying a Victorian house which the current owner has lived in for about 20 years. The process was started about 4 weeks ago, but on Wednesday we found out that our solicitor still has not received anything from the seller's solicitor. When this was chased up it turns out it is because it is an…
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private renting guarantor
Trying to rent privately, found a landlord that will accept dss, but now need a guarantor that earns £25000 a year, unfortunately don't know people that well off. Any suggestions ?
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Chacel repair liability - what if church registers interest by Oct 2013?
Hi there, We are in the process of buying a property (a flat) and the seller has confirmed that there is a potential chancel repair liability. We have spoken to solicitor and he suggested that we need not worry as there is an insurance that covers us. Now my question is, right now the property has potential liability; but…
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Selling land to a builder, help needed please.
Sorry if this gets complicated but it has confused me just writing this down! I have a long narrow garden that is too much for me and I have had 2 offers to buy the bottom end from 2 opposing builders. Builder 1 has a development that is next to our garden and wishes to buy mine and the land belonging to my other neighbour…
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How to approach the owner of a house which is not on the market
Hi all We have viewed a house last weekend and made an offer which was turned down (vendor would like £5K more). In the meanwhile I noticed another house 2 doors away, which I really liked, though it is a bit run down. I got an online office copy from Land Registry for the property and now have a name of the registered…
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Probate/vendor issue 6 months on! Help please!
Hi everyone, I really hope someone can give me some advice as I really need somehelp. My husband and I are first time buyers. We put an offer in on a 2bedroom house at the end of Jan 2013 (after months of searching). It wasaccepted! We then advised our bank and appointed our solicitor. We were told thevendors of the house…
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First time seller, not getting any viewings
Hi everyone I am pulling my hair out here over why people are not choosing to view our house. Our house was a new build when we bought it in 2006 and is a small 3 bed end town house (1 double bedroom and 2 single bedrooms). We had it valued by three estate agents in May, two valued the house at £130,000 and one at…
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Can I obtain searches myself ??
Friend of mine is buying a new property and the paper work is currently ongoing thru solicitors. She has been notified she should get the folling searches carried out Local Authority Search Drainage search Environmental search and The plan search The solicitors want to charge £100 for each search so £400 in all. She…
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Coventry Building Society Mortgage Offer
We've gone for a CBS mortgage a few weeks ago, and the mortgage valuation was done last tuesday. How long does it normally take before the offer comes out? We've given them everything that they wanted - we are waiting on the offer before we can exchange and its one of the last things holding us up?
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Do you send post on to previous Owner/tenant?
I got my new (to me) house last week and have the forwarding address for the previous people, who were tenants. Would you forward their post on to them, or do I just send it back Not at this address? Or bin it? Or . . .?
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Renting partly furnished
I am in the process of trying to rent out my apartment partly furnished and was just wondering if anyone could give me a few tips on what to do and what not to do?! Firstly, I think I will be using a letting agent to deal with finding someone for me but I will probably deal with the tenants directly as I cant afford to be…
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Some advise needed please...
We have rented a house through an agent (never rented before) and have paid 6 months rent up front as we don't have any history to check on here as we have been out of the UK for a couple of years. We have signed an agreement for 12 months, 6mths upfront then monthly thereafter and we are only a couple of months in and we…
