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Offer to Exchange - What's the quickest?
Hi So what are everyone's experiences, what's the quickest between offer and exchange? My current buyers have been mucking me around for months and I've found another buyer but I myself have a 3 week deadline for my onward purchase. Background: No chain, currently vacant flat, new buyer is buy to let with a good mortgage…
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New Taylor Wimpey Home Scotland
Hi, I was just looking for a little bit of advice from anyone who's purchased at Taylor Wimpey new build home. I've paid my plot reservation fee and only after that have seen posts from others saying that they got (e.g.) £10,000/£20,000 off the price of the house, stamp duty paid or extras paid for them by TW. If anyone…
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Dispute with neighbour
I live in a block of 8 flats, rent my flat privately, and unsure if there's a factor for our block. My neighbour upstairs has, due to a burst pipe switched off the water supply to all flats in the block until the pipe has been fixed. According to another neighbour, he has taken a hammer to the bathroom causing a…
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Is 91 years considered a long enough lease for a flat?
I have the choice of two similar flats. One has a 91 year lease at £170k, the other 117 years at £190k, is 91 years unwise considering I will probably want to sell in 5+ years time?
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Estate agency has neglected rental property - can we claim insurance from them
Hi everyone. If you able to advise me on this matter it would be greatly appreciated - thank you!! How do we go about claiming professional indemnity insurance/ public liability insurance against the estate agency that manages my boyfriend's rental property. The estate agency have allowed the property to decline to such a…
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How to Remove Public Footpath
Hello I live in a very rural location with a large garden, which has a public foot path going through it. When I bought it, it didn't really bother me because I'm in the middle of know where and I thought no one would use it any way. I know I can have the foot path removed or moved but no one has used the foot path since I…
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House sale funds to be kept in solicitor's Client account or my own bank account?
I'm in the process of selling my house and also looking for a new house to buy to live in. It'll be a sale & purchase. I am continuously looking for new properties during the process, but if the sale is completed before I find a new house, I will obviously need to rent out and continue my search from there. Once the sale…
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temp address
if you moved somewhere to work, and it was temporary say a year or several months, would you have change your address on ALL things like driving licence, bank, etc... because if they letters got sent to your old permanent house, youd still get even if you not living there.
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GEM Estate Management
Hi GEM estate management run the maintenance contract for my flats. They were chosen by the property developers when first built. The fees have gone up 35% in 2 years which is nice for them as they take an 18% cut on all outlay as commission. Building insurance went up 40% in a year! needless to say I doubt they shopped…
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Help please.
Can someone please advise us. My partner is in the process of buying a house. All the relevant paperwork and searches etc have been completed apart from final contracts being signed and exchanged. My partner is making a cash purchase and the monies have been transferred from my partners account to her solicitors account…
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Completion Certificate confusion
Hi, Any help and advise would be appreciated, as my own solicitor is unsure about how to proceed. I am in the process of buying a house where extensive alterations/additions have recently been done. The vendor has provided all the architect drawings that were submitted to the local council as a full plans application, and…
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CG Tax
I bought a house for £80k in 2001, lived there until 2006 and moved into our current house and rented the first one which is now worth £140k, if we sold the second house, moved back into the first one and sold it, how long would we have to live there to avoid CGT?
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Purchasing a house with Leasehold and Freehold
Hi, we've found out form our solicitors letters that the freehold house we are purchasing had a lease on it. The sellers solicitors have said the owner has acquired the leasehold but we are awaiting the evidence of this. My solicitor says effectively it means we will have a property with a leasehold and freehold on it and…
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Tenancy renewal contract one price, then changed it?
Hello, I received a letter by post for the renewal of the tenancy for the flat I live in. It states the monthly rent of £1195. I was given a month to think whether I wish to continue renting. After deliberating etc, and when the month's notice was about to expire, I called them to start processing the renewal of the…
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Lease extension
Hi a bit of advice please. I am seeking to buy a one bed flat as an investment. The lease is only 71 years so I have aksed the vendor to contact the management company who own the freehold. they have come back with a figure of just over £10,000 to take the lease back to 99 years so an increase of 28 years seems excessive.…
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I have no idea who my tenant is...
Ok.. quite an odd situation; and before I fully explain it I am aware it is strange and there are things i should have checked/done before I got to this stage which I didn't; but without too much judgement or "its your own fault because..." I was hoping to try and get some assistance on this matter please :) I've become…
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What would you do?
Rent for 6 months while we wait for our forever home to come up whilst getting priced out more and more and paying someone else's mortgage or buy a lovely house in a beautiful area to live in for the next 5-10 years as it's not a forever home? We're in the south east and prices are rising quickly. We sold our house and are…
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How soon to renew lease?
I've just moved into a rented house about a month ago. Initially I wasn't sure if it would be big enough for our growing family so I only signed a 6 month tenancy agreement. However my wife and I have both quickly liked it and we would like to stay on. We are keen to extend the tenanacy agreement for the remaining 18months…
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House Purchase - Sellers Certificates Smell a Little Fishy... Advice please
Hi, Hope someone can advise, I have just bought (or buying) a house and have received the Property Info Form from my solicitor and I'm not quite sure on the rules and regs of home buying to understand it fully. Now I have been on google so am learning but thought someone may have come up against this before or can explain…
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Is 1 month leave notice start from Day of notice or Rent Due date?
Hi everybody, Briefly: I was on assured short hold tenancy agreement which expired and rolled into periodic tenancy (I assume). Do you know if 1 month leave notice should count from the day I give the notice or from the next Rent due date? Details: I've paid my this month rent just a week ago and gave 1 month notice today…
