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Question from buyer's solicitor
I've received a question from the buyer's solicitor asking why the price I'm selling is substantially more than what I bought it for. Is this usual?
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House number envy
So will while putting the world to rights last night in the pub with my cronies this daft assertion was made :beer: Single digit house numbers are classier than 2 or 3 digit house numbers :) Now as I am moving from no 4 to no 108 do I need to remove the wheels from my car and place on blocks and keep the fridge at the side…
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Buying sheds?! How expensive?
I want to buy a small shed and the land it is on, how much roughly would the transaction COST in legal fees etc in the UK? Thanks!
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Areas - Prices - Number of houses
hi all, wondered if anyone could assist. i compared 5 areas via right move (exactly same criteria, just changed locations) and the number of houses available for sale is vastly different hornchurch - 130+ loughton - 22+ stratford - 1+ gidea park - 20+ grays - 91+ as stated above the search criteria was exactly the same and…
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Issues with rented house
Hi all, I moved into my rented house on 3rd December 2017. The landlord if a friend of a friend and it wasn’t done through an estate agents. The deposit was paid directly to the landlords son. So far, I have paid the rent of time and kept the house clean and tidy and looked after it (in my opinion), but there are a few…
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Charges against house holding sale up
Dear All Looking to you all for some advice, normally fantastic on here ! I have a house for sale which the buyers agreed to purchase 1st July 2017 - supposedly no chain, cash and trouble free ! We are now nearing the middle of February and stuck on a merrygoround of issue with charges placed against our house by 2 x…
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Selling in Scotland - is an estate agent essential
I will be selling up and moving from Scotland later this year. I have several experiences here and abroad of using estate agents and on most occasions struggled to see where the value for money was coming from (in the US especially, where the estate agent commission was 6%!). I don't want this to be an estate agent rant…
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Making an offer via an online estate agent
I have found a house I want to make an offer on which is being marketed by sellmyhome.co.uk When I spoke to someone there they would not tell me whether the property had had any offers yet or not. It has been on the market since October and not yet been reduced so I have a hunch there may have been some offers which the…
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Removals insurance - why?
I just received a quote from Pickfords for a house removal later in the year (am selling and buying later this year). It included the option of £310 "transit insurance" and I was wondering why one would need to insure against damage or loss in transit? Surely if Pickfords damage or lose my property, they are legally liable…
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House Names
I have recently viewed a property that is perfect for my needs. However, it has an awful flowery sounding name and not a street number. How easy is it to change the name of a property? Do you have to fill out a form at the Land Registry or can you just stick a sign out saying new house name formerly known as old house name…
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LPE1 Form - Query
Hi all I'm currently in the process of selling my leasehold house (nightmare!) We are right at the end and now I've been hit with a £250 bill for the freeholder to fill in the LPE1 form (I've already filled in the TA7 which holds some of the info) Two things here, my parents are actually buying my house and when they do…
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New landlord
Hi - looking for advice I'm moving in with my partner and want to rent out my property. I've lived there for 7 years. I have no intention to sell but will use an agent to let it out and suspect that I'll move back there in my later years ( I'm much younger than my partner and his property will be left to his children) Do I…
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Selling to Rent Advice
In an unexpected twist we are suddenly in a position where we will be selling to move into rental, instigated by cash buyers who want to move quickly and seeing the benefits of making us cash buyers moving forward. I'm just working through the process in my mind and am confused by the timing of signing a rental tenacy and…
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Buying flat leasehold with share of freehold
My husband and I are in the process of buying a beautiful flat. It’s a leasehold property but we will be getting a share of freehold as part of that. We put our offer in back in October, however we are still waiting for the management company (who own the block of flats) to answer our enquiries which includes detail on the…
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Searches re-used?
Hi all I was wondering if anyone has any experience of, or thoughts on, the below before I go any further with it? I may be missing something obvious. I was recently purchasing a house and had gone pretty far through the process, almost to exchange of contracts. My conveyancer had obtained all the searches for which I paid…
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Shared drain "build over agreement" / indemnity
Hi all, We are in the process of selling our house, constructed in 2006. The house forms parts of a small estate of 4 houses and the sewers from these properties join uo and run under our driveway (block paved) and side entrance path before exiting the property and "estate" boundary to public sewer. The buyers solicitor is…
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Japanese Knotweed (again) sorry
Hi, I've been looking for a property to buy and absolutely fell in love with a house. I put an offer in, even though the buyer wanted a £1,200 non-refundable deposit to secure the sale - which I thought was odd. I had an offer accepted and the vendor's solicitor then asked I transfered £1,500 over to him via my solicitor.…
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Solicitor questions
Hello all, I'm now at the next step of buying my first house (who'd of known it would have been this stressful) offer accepted, mortgage accepted. From what I gather all that needs to be done is the conveyancing, searches and a homebuyers survey. Now my dad is helping with my deposit, and the solicitor wants evidence we…
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Shared Ownership strategy on New Build Premiums
I have been looking into shared ownership recently as a potential route as a first time buyer. This got me thinking, will it make financial sense to buy the smallest possible share on a new build until the new home premium dissipates and then staircase? even if you can afford a much larger % at the initial purchase, or…
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Council Tax - living in two properties - no main r
Council Tax - living in two properties - no main residence I own two houses. P house was empty for a short period and I have 'moved in' to the house and informed the Council accordingly. They have written back saying that that there is no record of me informing the Council of House B that I have moved out. The reason that…
