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Amenity Land
Hi all, i have the opportunity to purchase a piece of land, roughly an acre in size. The land is amenity land and is not currently fenced in. I'm happy for the local population to continue using the land if they currently are, but i would like to fence the perimeter and put a gate on the land, not locked, but the purpose…
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Help with leasehold
Hi, Im in the process of buying a leasehold property. I want to make alterations to the internal layout of the property. Reading the lease hold these are the sections with regards to changes. 1.6) The expression "structure" means the parts of the Building comprising of the foundations all concrete floor slabs (but not the…
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Letting Agent Renewal Fees
Afternoon, The property we rent tenancy agreement ends this month. It was agreed with the letting agent and landlord that we could move to periodic rental agreement (not signing up for a 6 or 12 month contract) Today we received an invoice for £180 for fees to be put on periodic renting. It says as per our tenancy…
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Freehold Purchase Breach Of Contract
Hi guys, I'm hoping somebody may be able to help me with a bit of a messy contract issue we're experiencing. We purchased our new build house in May 2016. This included a non adjoining garage below a coach house. The contract we signed was for a freehold property with a non adjoining garage. No mention made of any…
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What have you left behind in your old home?
Following on from the other thread about what's the oddest thing you've been left, what have you left behind for your purchasers? We left a small plastic garden shed with extra house bricks from our conservatory build. I think they may have been useful as the purchaser did brick up an external door when they remodelled the…
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Not allowed on the Help to Buy Scheme but moving in with a First time Buyer
Hi Money Saving Experts, I'll get right into my question because .... well I need guidance and advice. Back story A few years ago my dad ( lucky for me or spoilt as you may say) purchased a flat for myself to move into. I was put on the mortgage aswell as my dad. I paid half the mortgage monthly repayments aswell as all…
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selling a rented property
I co own a house with a friend. The mortgage will need to be renegotiated in five years time.We have a really good tenant who unless things change is happy to stay. I want to sell in five years time. Should I offer my share to my friend or to the tenant or do we sell the house on the open market with or without the tenant.…
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Knocking down outhouse with asbestos
I have a link terraced house. There is an outhouse just outside my house, but not attached to my house. It is, however, attached to next door's outhouse. To knock this down, so that a conservatory could be put up, I am guessing that I will need planning permission. Because my outhouse is attached to next door's, does this…
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Renovate and Holiday let our Barn
Hi all, Looking for some very rough advice here before talking to an accountant. We have our own property and some barns which we have just had planning permission to convert one to a holiday let. My question is, is it advisable, or even possible, to set up a company through which we renovate the barns incurring all the…
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Advice Needed - First-Time Buyer
I'm keen to open a LISA so I can save towards a new house but I'm currently trying to get clarification on the following (potential) problem; I currently have "nue-proprietaire" ownership to a property in the south of France. This has been defined on one website as "This is the reversionary interest in property, which…
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House valuation - margin of error?
Hi all, I have a question regarding property valuations as a buyer. We have instructed our solicitor to do a valuation on a new build property we are hoping to buy. They are in the process of doing this, but the FTB nerves are kicking in and I would really like some peace of mind! I was wondering if there is any leeway /…
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Bad situation with removal, and wanted to know about viewings
I am meant to move out Friday and had originally planned for my furniture to be removed yesterday but the cheapest service was a flexible date system of Saturday-Monday with at LEAST 24 hours notice (which is more a consumer rights issue I guess so will post this there too) It has all fallen through and though company has…
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neighbor garage asbestos
Dear all i have moved to a new home for two weeks, I noticed that the neighbor in the garden has an asbestos garage roof, does not seem to be damaged but it's very dirty. There are a lot of birds on the top, i don't know if this can be dangerous from the time the birds eat on the roof, my neighbor is really old man and…
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Estate Agent Advice Please.
We are in quite a slow moving area but want to sell our house at at competitive price, but not a silly price. House is valued at about £210,000, and would sell for about £10k less than that, but we not willing to pay £2-3k in estate agent fees. I haggled with a local estate agent who said they would do everything…
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Advice re birds nest
Hi, Random one but hoping someone can advise. We moved into a new house in December which is a new build. Not long after moving in we noticed we had a birds nest in the corner of our roof where next doors house joins, there house is set slightly back. We are really friendly with the neighbours and nearly every time we see…
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Can I terminate my tenant's tenancy early for having an unauthorised pet?
I am renting a flat to a couple on a 12 month tenancy agreement. When they applied they did not say anything about having a pet and in the tenancy agreement it states that tenants must get permission for any pets from the landlord first. I have been informed by a neighbour that one of the tenants has been seen going in and…
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What's the oddest thing your seller has left in your new home?
I've only moved into our new house a couple of weeks ago and have been trying to properly clean each room as we unpack (it's been a gradual move as we were still renting our flat). I was cleaning the kitchen over the weekend and have found so many things under the oven and some other kitchen units, including loads of small…
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Would you be concerned ?
We are buying a property (FLAT) and its been down valued by £10,000 I am a bit nervous about this. Asking price £170k Bank Valuation £160K What I would like to know is what % of properties do not get the full valuation. is this Normal ? I am NOT trying to buy the property on the cheap but I do not want to pay more than…
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Transfering home ownership from my mother to me
Hi, I'm new to the forum and I know aspects of this have been covered elsewhere but a bit of guidance advice to see if I'm getting this right would be appreciated. My mother and father owned a house together that they purchased in 2000. They were 'tenants in common' I believe. Unfortunately my father passed away in 2001,…
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Bungalow not getting any viewings feedback appreciated
Hi all, we are selling our bungalow and don't seem to be getting any viewings, we have been on the market for four weeks and have only had three.We did get an offer for the full price but they changed their mind Our estate agent suggests a price reduction as other bungalows in our immediate area are cheaper, most of them…
