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Land Registry
Does any one have any ideas on the following. Looking at a property to purchase, whilst checking out the neighbouring property I hit a brick wall. The neighbouring house was sold in 2013.Logged in to the Land registry. looked up the property and when I requested the details of ownership £3,a message popped up stating that…
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EA Not Notified Us Buyer Has Changed
Hi, am I right to be annoyed or am I overreacting? After many months of trying to sell our house at the same time as praying the new build we wanted wasn!!!8217;t bought by somebody else we finally accepted an offer 2 and a half weeks ago and thought all was well. We knew the buyer was a young first time buyer with a…
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Subsidence
Hi hope someone can help me. I'm buying a property and the search has revealed there was a subsidence issue due to a tree in 2003. The tree was removed and had superstructure repairs in 2004. Does this mean that the house is good to buy now? What's the chance of it happening again? How will it affect my buildings insurance?
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Completion deadline in offer
Hello everyone. We are moving back to the UK and having sold our house would like to make an offer on a property. Having cash & mortgage in place we will hopefully be in a strong position in that our offer will not be dependent on selling an existing property. Our problem is that we need to guarantee completion within a…
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Buying a home as a part of a sepperation
I would like some advise on buying a property for my X partner as part of our amicable separation. I can not make head nor tail of the legal situation regarding the First time buyer scheme.. I have owned my own home and some rental properties for many years, my partner has lived with me for 7-8 years now but sadly we are…
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Lifetime ISA against mortgage deposit?
Hi All, I'm after some help please on how/when you can access the Lifetime ISA when buying a house, specifically on exchange or completion. Obviously I am a first time buyer, so apologies if any of this is wrong or unrealistic! We (my partner and I) have recently had an offer accepted on a house and I have a LISA. I opened…
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IT contractor partner buying into house
Here is my situation My partner is going to buy into my house by equating the equity I have built up and then we want to take out a joint mortgage on the remaining balance. My current mortgage is my sole name and when I got it out 3 years ago following divorce the loan was based on my earnings which I have sustained in…
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Offers strategy
Hi, We are currently on the hunt for a house in Manchester. We have mainly been looking at Chorlton and Didsbury, but prefer Chorlton. As someone else has posted recently on here, the (nice) houses are going within a week of listing and going to 'best and final' offers. We are FTB, out of contract in our rented house, so…
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Underground tank...
If anyone can shed any light on this I’ll be very grateful. If found out that house that our sellers are buying has had the environmental search come back saying that it has “highlighted for an underground tank” and more information is needed from the local authority that this has been cleared prior to the building being…
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permission for improvement before making offer?
first time buyer wanting to buy a flat with a kitchen needs updating. We will only consider a place that allow us to open a hole in the wall between kitchen and living room (looks like this). Do we enquire about freeholder's permission before making an offer, or make offer now but say it's subject to getting an…
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When to book the Homebuyers survey?
We have sold our house and the work on that is progressing, buyer is a private landlord who will rent to his brother and is very flexible on move date with good lines of communication between us directly which is worked great so far. Today we have had an offer accepted on a property and the EA has said he will only mark…
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Ground instability
Dear all, We are trying to buy our first house in Hemel Hempstead. Our solicitor requested a mining and subsistence report from which we can see that there are very significant soluble rocks in the area and a high potential of localised subsidence occurring naturally. I`ve google it and was mining in that area more than…
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End of chain buying lease
Hi all Piece of string question sorry I have sold my house and moved in with family while my house purchase catches up Yesterday after chasing up my solicitor I was told the chain was not progressing very well but they had no more info. I am in contact directly with the seller so asked what the issue is and he has replied…
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Completion issues
We've been really rushed to complete on our house this week, we are purchasing. We only found out we was going to exchange on the day we did exchange which was yesterday at 11:30am and then completion date is today. I checked with my solicitor that nothing could come in the way of this given the mortgage funds and deposit…
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housemates not paying bills/rent
Hi, I am looking for some advice as am afraid to go to my Landlord. We rent privately through an estate agents. I live with my sister and her partner (who has a child also living with us). Myself and the partner are the main names on the contract for the house (for rent). My sister and her partner split up and my sister…
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Empty commercial property benefits?
I hope this is a suitable place to ask this question because I can't see a section for commercial property on here. I just want to understand a bit more about how commercial property rules benefit the owner, especially when it's empty. I will add that I don't own one. In most places I visit there are many small and large…
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Buying agricultural land
This seemed the closest forum to ask this question... I am looking to buy a small piece of land (about 3 acres) and want to know before I buy it whether I can grow crops on it. The land is advertised as a 'paddock' - is this a formal classification that means anything? There is no mention about it being designated for…
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Vendor keeps pushing price up
Hi, our situation is this: we have seen a house we REALLY want, basically it ticks all boxes. We only want to put our house on the market if the seller accepts our offer subject to contract and takes their house off the market. We can get our house on the market within 2 days and hopefully sell within 6 weeks (only 3 bed…
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Adding Kerb appeal in February?
We put our house on the market last week but there's been much less interest in it than we hoped/expected. It does seem priced about right as far as we're aware. So far, we've had one 'proceedable' viewing (they came, they spent 45 mins, they disappeared with no feedback given), one 'non-proceedable' which was cancelled,…
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3 year fixed term!
If a landlord gives me a 3 year fixed term tenancy can he still evict in 6 months or does he have to wait until the end of the three years?
