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Which section 21 should be served
Hi All, My mum has tenants in her property who are on a periodic tenancy. They have lived in the property for 3 years of which 2.5 of those have been on a AST and the last 6mths periodic. They do not have a deposit and my mum now wishes for them to vacate. Which section 21 should she serve on them? Thank you in advance.
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Solicitor & Discharge of Planning Regs
We are in what should be the final stages of selling our flat in a large London development. In fact we were due to complete on Friday. Over the last two weeks our buyers solicitor said she could not recommend our buyers proceed until further queries regarding planning issues were addressed. There was a lot of…
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How long does written acceptance of offer take?
Hi, I am in the process of buying my first house and put in an offer on fixed price property 12 days ago. It was accepted the following day, but my solicitor is waiting on a written acceptance from the sellers solicitor. I had a mortgage in principle, however that's now been agreed and the offer documents are with me and…
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Query exchange contract delay!
Hi, I was wondering if any one had any similar experiences or knowledge in this field as me and my partner are seriously at our wits end! I will try not to bore you too much with the background so I will keep it to a minimum. We are first time buyers, we had an offer accepted on a property last August. For various reasons…
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Transferring house I own to my daughter who lives in it.
Six years ago, when my daughter became pregnant, my wife and I bought a house for her and her now husband to live in. We did this by raising a mortgage on our own property and using some of our savings. We therefore own her house outright. My daughter pays the value of the mortgage to me each month and we use this to pay…
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Buying a leasehold flat, have concerns about the conditions, need advice?
The conditions I'm concerned about are: * Not to make any alterations or additions of a non-structural nature to the interior of the premises without the previous written consent of the landlord and the management company. Does this mean that I can't replace the kitchen or install a fitted wardrobe without first seeking…
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Not allowed to put a offer on a property?
Hi have you ever had a Estate Agent say your not allowed to offer on a property unless both the husband and wife has viewed the property? My wife is going to view somewhere whilst I am out of the country and the agent said if my wife likes she is not allowed to offer on it until I view it as well? Is that right?
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SELLING: Property Information Form.
hello. Opinions please. selling our current home. fixtures and fittings form filled out. property information form says that it isn't mandatory to fill it out but not doing so can delay matters and if any questions are then asked they of course have to be truthful. I have also filled in this form. now theres no problem at…
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Resales vs new builds - shared ownership
My wife and I are interested in a resale property...it's a 2 bed maisonette at a 50% share (one other flat downstairs) Maybe I'm being naive but how can the service charges go up drastically each year when there's no communal area etc to maintain? We have looked at new builds through the s/o scheme with different housing…
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leaving rented - painting?
Hi when leaving rented after 3 years, are you required to touch up flaking paint on skirting boards/doors? can deposit be used to claim paintwork costs?
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It's not a freehold flat!!
New here so apologies if this is well-worn ground. On our second mortgage application for a maisonette. We are buying the freehold of the whole building but occupying the upper three floors - the basement is owned on a long lease. There is no separate lease for the maisonette. First tried Chelsea/Yorkshire directly. Admin…
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Proceeds of house sale
Hi, I'm a bit unsure of what is the best course of action with the proceeds of my house sale. My wife and I have sold our property and will be in receipt of approx £380k. This money is earmaked for the purchase of another property in the near future - 4/5 weeks. I bank with Halifax, my wife with Barclays. We have a joint…
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How close to asking price to offer?
I viewed a flat today that was on the market for 200k. My budget is 180k and that is the maximum. I decided I won't put any offer on the flat I saw as it wasn't in a good decorative order and I didn't get a good general feeling about it. I doubt 180k would be accepted had I offered anyway. Is it unrealistic to look at 200k…
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Purchasing process
Hi guys, I am in the process of buying a flat in London off-plan and the building completion date is due for end of April. Do I understand well that once the building is complete there is some official check carried out and only then we receive the notice of completion, ie the notification that our solicitor should pay…
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HELP: Tricked to sell house
Hi Super forum. There are two houses: * House 1 = He lives in and is joint holder * House 2 = He was transferring from family to his name & wife's name His wife has tricked him into transferring his house into her name alone. My relative can't read or write English so he just signed the papers. The solicitor did not ask or…
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Renting and CGT
Hello! I'm not sure where this forum is based, but I'm going to assume the UK as times are GMT... which hopefully means someone can help me with HMRC. I've just bought a flat in London and have it tenanted for the next 18 months while I'm away working elsewhere. I expect I will return to London at some point in the future…
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Consent to Mortgage - Have I just shot myself in the foot?
Long story short - me and my partner have been together 7 years, found it difficult to get a mortgage for one reason or another. I am not on the mortgage, as I have been an agency working for a couple of years and just moved into a fixed term contract - not exactly brilliant for mortgage purposes. So my partner and his mum…
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Shared ownership staircasing - disputing a valuation
Hi all, Not sure if anyone has any experience in this, but I'm thinking about staircasing my property to 100% and have had a valuation done. The valuation is £105,000 more than the value 2 years ago(!), but saying that, property prices in my area (Kensington and Chelsea) seem to be a bit random. No similar flats have sold…
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Renting with family?
Ok so we've just had our (first) house purchase fall through and are licking our wounds and regrouping. We're not yet ready to go back into the fray and won't be for some considerable time, but we do want to move - at the moment we have a 2 bed city centre flat and a toddler so we would like to live somewhere with a…
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Valuation discrepancy - please help!
In March 2012, my wife and I bought our house (which had been advertised for sale at £179,950) for £178,000 (several others were interested, and we had to get close to the asking price). Our mortgage was provided by HSBC. It was valued at precisely this amount by the person HSBC instructed to carry out the valuation,…
