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LL selling house - please can you advise
Our LL put our house on the market approximately 4 months ago now. We knew it would happen, but weren't expecting it so quickly but that's just one of those things. It was going ok, it's a pain a times as we have young and children and work, but blitz when we have to! I had an issue with the estate agent which I sorted out…
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Buying a bit of garden from a neighbour
Hi all, We may have the opportunity to buy a piece of garden which backs on to ours but I have no idea how much to value it at and would like to have some form of an idea. I'm sure the answer is piece of string, but if anyone has done this would be interested to hear how you approached arriving at a value, and the greater…
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Management Problems
Hi, I have just received a letter from the management company that runs the block of 6 flats that I live in. The letter states that it is a 'Final Request For Payment - Overdue Fee's' for my yearly communal charge and that a £21 late payment fee has been added! I called them to say that I hadn't received the first letter…
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what sort of survey on a new build?
hi all so i reserved my house at lunch time!:beer: it's already built so there's something physical to survey at least. i'm just wondering - those of you who bought new, did you pay for a homebuyers report or did you just have a valuation done? Charl x
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Quandary!..Should I sell my house or rent it out?
Hi - could do with some advice of opinions please as I'm getting myself in a muddle over my current situation... Without going into all the gory details my current situation is that I have a mortgage & secured second loan on my house both of which have suspended possession orders registered in favour of the lenders. I…
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Average cost of moving - fees & surveys etc
Maybe a post elsewhere so sorry if already been asked but can anyone advise some kind of average cost of moving ie solicitors fees, survey, stamp duty, basically all admin costs & tax etc?? Is this possible? The property we want to buy is around £155,000??
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Buyers or time wasters?!
Hi there, it has been 7 years since we last sold & brought our last properties. This is our third home & we are currently looking at our fourth home. We know buying & selling is a stressful & an uncertain process bit like how long is a bit of string BUT how common is it for buyers to make multiple offers at once on…
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Student let - summer months query
Hello, I'm looking for a little advice prior to my daughter signing a tenancy agreement. She is a student and her, along with some of her friends need to move out of halls into privately rented accommodation. The tenancy agreement states: XXX per calendar month (subject nevertheless as hereinafter provided) payable on the…
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Solicitors costs, refund??
I was wondering.. I paid out several hundred pounds to our solicitors for the purchase of a new house. (I'd already paid the selling fees) The sale fell through when after a month or so our buyers pulled out, over that month the only contact from the solicitors was a letter i received which was the new house owners…
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Buying a house for my mum to live in, best way to go about this?
My mum is 'cash poor' but owns her own home outright. Its too big for her and she needs to downsize to release some cash to live on. She gets basic state pension and a small private one. She pulled out of a sale last summer as it all got too much for her. The estate agent was trying to bump up the price continually for…
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Can estate agents charge the buyer?
Hi everyone. A friend of mine is trying to buy a house from a North London Estate agent but has not viewed it as yet. However the agent has already contacted him and told him that he will have to pay the estate agent a 1 percent fee. Reason given is that the house is being sold by tender and the estate agent is the sole…
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tenant moving in/rent and deposit.
I have a tenant moving in to a property next Friday. They have sold their house and have to be out by next Fri at 1pm. May I ask you good people how the rent can be paid before they move in, as I am loathe to let the keys out of my grasp until there is at least a months rent in my bank account. We are not talking a couple…
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Moving house with Bad Credit - Help!!
We currently have a Santander mortgage on a property, but are looking to upscale with no change in the mortgage, just transfer it. Unfortunately I am in a repayment plan with 3 creditors which has caused my credit rating to plummet. Unfortunately Santander will not even give us an idea of whether we could transfer the…
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Check my completion statement maths?
We complete next Thursday. Solicitor can't send us completion statement yet as she's waiting for the redemption statement from HSBC for the mortgage on the house we're selling. I've said we need the statement by Tuesday, as we have to transfer money to her! I'm having kittens that it'll turn up and I'll have done my maths…
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FTB help with stamp duty
Hi Guys, After loads of reading on the forum, I've finally made an account... but it's in my time of need. I'd previously read that stamp duty was payable 30 days after completion... and that some people don't pay, incur a fine, and pay it within 6 months.... but that's 'okay'. Myself and my other half are trying to buy…
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House share
I have a 50% share in a property worth 109,000 the property is on the market at present i need to free up funds now is there anyway of doing this ?
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What shall I do now????
Ok house has been on market since last August at the price the agents told me would be appropriate (I didn't pick that figure!). After 8 weeks though I myself reduced it by £5k as I didn't want to push it and not be in the market for a sale. Anyhoo, I had nearly 12 weeks of very poor service from Virgin Money who I would…
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Partner Moving Into My House - Legalities
Just looking for some advice from the MSE worldlywise on this… My partner and I have been together around a year. We each own our own house but my partner is going to sell her house and come and live with me. There’s obviously several important matters that need to be agreed, such as how to share all the costs– mortgage,…
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Opinions on house
Hi We're trying to sell our house, it's been on the market for 2months and it's not had any viewings, I know it's a poor time of year, bit would still appreciate opinions to see if there's anything we could improve on? Here it is on RM I think we might have overpriced it, but we got the same price from different agents so…
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How long do searches take?
I'm interested in knowing - how long from searches being requested did it take for them to come back?
