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Purple Bricks V EA
All, Looking at selling for the first time. What are peoples experiences v EA and PB? Yes PB is cheaper, but is that at the detriment of a lower Purchase Price? Your personal experiences would be good to hear, both good and bad. Cheers
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Right of 1st Refusal - Freeholder selling
Hi In December I purchased a Leasehold flat. Over the weekend I received an email from the Freeholder advising that he had previously advised my vendors that he was intending to sell the Freehold. I have spoken to him and advised that potentially I would be interested but need to take professional advice and asked him to…
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Freehold amenity/service charge on new build property
Hi, just wondering if anyone can be of assistance. We bought our new build house in February. It is on a small private estate and in our contract we agreed to pay a service charge for the maintenance of the open space area. We were under the impression that this area would be transfered to a management company once it had…
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Land purchase council
I moved into my property 2 months ago. It's an ex council property. I have an end terrace house. I was speaking to my neighbour yesterday and he said the person across the road is looking to purchase the bit of land that is immediately to the right of my property for parking. He already has a garage and a trailer Parker on…
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Two offers with two different outcomes?
Ok based on last weekends viewing, I have put two offers for two different properties with different agents. One agent said ok he will forward my offer in writing to vendor and get back asap The second, Haart, they want to see if I qualify for them to put in an offer! So their requesting our passports, driving license,…
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Agency Threatening Me - Section 8
Hi, Long story short - i was in a SHORT TERM CONTRACT for 3 months from NOVEMBER 16 - FEBRUARY 17 (Those months have been paid for, thats all done) - I was made redundant from my then company - so i informed the agency 'my circumstances have changed, can i do a rolling monthly thing, as that would be easier for me, rather…
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Help To Buy Advice Needed
Hi, So as much as I've read about the help to buy equity loan I'm still undecided on what to do and need to make a decision soon. I'm currently looking to get on the property ladder rather than private renting which I'm sure most people will agree with. I need to move from my current address soon and have been looking at…
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Chain - buying / selling
Hi All, Probably a stupid Q....but I've looked at past topics and can't find a recent / definitive answer to my Q. I currently own and live in a flat, which next year we'd like to sell. Most of our money is tied up in our property and whilst we will be continuing to save we are unable to come up with another 10% deposit…
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SDLT Return Form Shared Ownership
I am about to exchange contracts on a shared ownership new build and was looking into the stamp duty process. My solicitor has offered to complete the SDLT return forms for me for an additional fee. I am not obliged to do take him up on that offer though as I will not be taking out a mortgage. I recall reading that if I am…
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Sales particulars
Hi, I hope someone can help. We are currently tenants of a property that our landlady now wishes to sell. We have offered the full asking price and it has been accepted. However, the estate agent wants to re-visit the house in order to take measurements and photos for the sales particulars. He has already visited the house…
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Surveyor is not replying
Hi, I'm in the process of buying my first home. We have no idea what we are doing and are just trying to muddle through it, we've picked a terrible solicitor who is doing hardly anything because we didn't have any recommendations. When it came to getting a survey done we learned our lesson (or so we thought) and went with…
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Access to neighbour: who clears cuttings
Hi I couldn't quite find the right forum for this so please move if inappropriate. Two neighbours (both very unpleasant) want access to the back of their outhouses on our land to clear ivy. We made arrangements to view this today and the area in front of their outhouses on our land is brambles. They insisted we clear this…
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Lost Deeds
Wondering...... The house at the very top of our chain have lost their deeds. We are at the bottom of the chain. We were all hoping for exchange at least by the end of the month. Can anyone tell me anything they know about the implications of them losing their deeds; timewise, costwise etc.
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Htb isa number
This questions prob already been asked a thousand times nut we are filling out our decleration forms for our htb isa & they ask for an isa number .? Is that just my account number?
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Fireproof/retardant roller blinds for rentals?
Hi there, I just had a blinds salesman give a free quote. Run of the mill sales talk. :rotfl::mad: He said to me that to have roller blinds in a rental flat, they must be fire retardant/proof? Is this correct, I should think most blinds sold are? He then went on to quote me about £400 for 2 small windows for the fire…
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Buildings Insurance between Exchange & Completion
Hello everyone, we are, (after a gruelling 12 months of trying to sell, sale falling through, purchases falling through x 2) HOPEFULLY going to exchange next week. Now the solicitor has informed us that we are required to have buildings insurance on our purchase from the date of exchange. I'm just wondering how this works?…
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boundary issue
so we were due to exchange contracts today and complete on Friday. I rang our solicitor this morning to check progress and was told there was a delay. I rang back later this afternoon and turns out there has been an issue with the boundary on our purchasers flat. Apparently the balcony is not showing on the deeds/boundary…
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Mortgage application with address change
Hi All, FTB here with a couple of questions in the hope that someone has experienced similar. I’m currently in the process of buying a house, valuation has come in ok and I’m hoping I’ll get an official offer this week or next. The house I’m buying is in a chain so I’m assuming it’s going to be a couple of months minimum…
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Buying a house with an annexe - lodgers etc
The wife and I are thinking of buying a "4 bedroom" house. The 4th bedroom is actually a converted garage which is physically separate from the rest of the house, so an annexe of sorts. It has its own en suite bathroom, but no kitchen. As well as using it as a guest bedroom, we were thinking of renting it out to lodgers…
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Extended ex LA house- value
We've found an extended Ex-LA house that has been extended to add two extra bedrooms, 1 ensuite and open plan living/dining/kitchen. It's been done to quite a high spec decoration wise. Its on for quite a bit more than the builder purchased it for. My question is as the other ex la houses on the road are still 2 beds or…
