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House prices around the UK
Hi people. I am currently looking around for properties. I am in no rush to buy, but will maybe apply for a mortgage this time next year... I live in the South East where house prices are getting ridiculous...I mean they are seriously taking the pi**. They will apparently rise another 20-30% in the next 5 years. For the…
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Buying kitchen from Wickes
Hello everyone, I'm in the last stages of buying my 2 bed ground floor garden flat in West London. I'm going to renovate my house as soon as I get the key (hopefully within the next couple of weeks) and had an appointment with Wickes Chiswick office last week to design a kitchen. Wickes have 50% off at the moment plus some…
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It's all gone wrong, is this a feasible alternative?
We have sold our house and were planning on buying the next stage up of house that needed some work doing to it, it had more space and would have been a house we could have stayed in until we needed to downsize. Unfortunately the valuation came back with a zero value due to structural movement. So, we are now having to…
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Selling a UK property - tax question
Hi there I'm wondering here if anyone here can help. My husband and I live in Australia but he has a flat in London. We want to sell the UK flat and buy something here instead. We currently own (well, the bank does) a house in Australia. Anyway my husband is a permanent resident for Australia, and is a Non-Resident…
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One Door House
OK, so I have been house hunting for over 3 years now. I went to view one this week and I was actually bowled over that it looked like what it did in the photos. There was no photoshopping or glamour photos, it was as it should have been. It's a 3 bedroomed town house which was put for sale at £100K in Yorkshire. It's been…
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Help with buying parents house
Hi, I am looking for abit of information about buying my parents property, my partner and myself will be first time buyers, my parents have a property they no longer live in and we are looking at buying it. There is no mortgage on the property and the thought process is that they sign the deeds over to Us with the…
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Building bungalow for relative on my land
Hello Just looking for some advice /guidance on possible ways to deal with the following. We have a garden of approx 1 acre and are looking to build a small bungalow (6 x 10 m 60m2) in one corner for the mother in law who has just divorced using her split of the money. She would supply the money to build the shell to water…
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Park lodges and similar-land reg?
Hi all, Im just wondering,, if you were to buy a park home/lodge/call it what you like..would it appear as a property registered on land reg? I suspect i know the answer but just checking, My thoughts are that its a caravan which stands on a rented plot and so there is nothing to register on land reg Its no different to…
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Horror stories please!
I will shortly be acting as a landlord (well, lady!) for my MIL's property, as she has dementia (recently moved her to assisted living, guesstimating a year before she needs residential care). Have POA and I'll be doing everything on her behalf - first time have ever been in this sort of position before. Planning on…
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At what age is 'normal' to buy? How old were you?
Hi, I just wanted to not feel so on my own by asking what age are people buying these days? I am 30 have a 40k deposit and am thinking I should be buying now as opposed to living with the parents.....thoughts? Save More?
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Problems with inherited multi owned rental property
My sister, brother and I were left property by father. My sister has been renting this house (no rentalcontract) for the last 20 years (peppercorn rent) but has now decided to move out and wants the house sold. My brother and I do not want to sell it but are prepared to buy her out. For some reason she does not want to be…
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Does this look serious?
We've been looking round houses the past couple of weeks, we've found a bit of a project house in a nice area nearby that we are quite interested in, however theres something that I don't know if we should be concerned about. We're first time buyers without any family in the area so its a but difficult to know. When we…
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claim against landlord over broken boiler
Hi, Firstly I hope that this is the correct section to submit this thread, If not accept my apology in advance. I would like some advice on a claim against the council (my landlord) regarding a broken boiler I had for 5 months. I will try and explain in as much detail as possible as to what has happened since this all…
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Taking in Lodger(s)
Hi, I was contemplating taking in a lodgers (ie. one family) as I have substantial room in the house and its pointless as the 3 bedrooms are sitting empty when they could be utilised.I work full time so i am not claiming any benefits etc. I have had interest from a family (seem decent and nice folk) who will be paying part…
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Share of freehold - management company
I looked at a garden flat. 1 out of a block of 4. It's a share of freehold, apparently 22% share as it's smaller. Long lease of 999 years, token ground rent £1, no service charge. He told me that there was no management company and on asking him how communal areas, front garden, maintenance issues were dealt with he told…
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Searches when buying a house
Waiting on house completion/contract exchange. My solicitor says he s waiting on vendor's solicitor to get searches. However online info says that buyers solicitor is supposed to get searches. Is the vendor solicitor supposed to get any searches? Also because we have to move in asap. My solicitor suggested forming a…
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unreasonable agent fees?
I'm currently renting a 2 bed flat with a friend on a 1 year tenancy which is due to finish in August. My flatmate is will be moving out soon. I want to stay in the flat, but on my own. We contacted the agent to ask about changing the contract reflect these changes and were told there would be a fee of £340! :eek: This…
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Who is responsible for bleeding radiators
Hi all, I have my house rented out while working overseas and the agent has been in touch to say the tenant has complained that a radiator in the hall isn't getting hot. The radiator in the hall does require bleeding from time to time and I made the agent aware of this from the get go. I sent the agent a link to Tenants…
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Permitted develop for a flat?
I've already done some research that I think confirms you can't build under permitted development in a ground floor flat. However my neighbour thinks he can. Which one of us is correct please?
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Changing a storm porch to an external porch???
I've seen a house I'm interested in buying but a 'must have' for me is an external porch, this house has a porch roof and one porch wall and I was wondering if it would be a 'big job' to fully enclose it? I've never done any alterations to a house before so am a bit naive when it comes to level of work involved/costs etc