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Best way to make offer before selling own home
hI, Many thanks for any suggestions Downsizing, seen bungalow which want - best way to make offer to vendor to obtain bungalow until own home sold? Thanks dave
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s106 - again(UPDATE AND PLEASE HELP!)
A search shows me that this has come up a few times, but my poor daughter is at her wits end! She moved abroad at short notice and is selling (her first time) a shared-ownership flat to a first-time buyer. The flat is on a huge (thousands of properties) mature development by Linden. Despite the shared ownership, it is my…
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Anyone used Conveyancing Marketing Services (CMS) Ltd
Hi Folks I'll be looking to sell a bungalow when the probate process has gone through. It should be a straight forward sell for me. Just wondering if anyone has used this company. Conveyancing Marketing Services (CMS) Ltd. They seem pretty good on price but would be happy to think about others. The property value is around…
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Rental query
I own a rental property and am in a position to buy a second. What I'm hoping to do is enable my wife to quit her job and for her to become the landlady for both properties (which would hopefully save me/us approx. 2k in tax p.a.) In order to do this would I have to transfer my first rental property to my wife (my old…
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Conveyancing Advice please
My solicitor has a number of queries with the vendor's solicitors regarding the extension of the property both upwards and outwards with respect to obtaining planning and building regulation certificates. I suspect the vendors don't have it as otherwise they would have supplied it. Given that the works were done nearly 20…
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Worrying issue on Building Survey
Hi, We had a building survey done, and it spotted some issues with uneven floor in corner of one of the rooms: "There is unevenness and out of level to the floor of the bedroom to the front right corner and evidence of settlement to the floor of the ensuite behind, where there are clear gaps at the junctions between the…
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survey for lease extension
I am in the process of applying for a lease extension. I am curious how long on average it takes for the survey to take (the appointment itself, not the compilation of the survey later). I will be meeting with the surveyor at my flat this Thursday. Also what sort of questions might he ask of me, so I can be prepared with…
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Staircasing : SDLT and Equity release
Hi, I have two separate queries in relation to our stair-casing situation, key details (estimates) are:* We purchased a 35% Share in 2015 (full market value at the time £250,000, Share £87,500). * Current Market Value is £290,000 (our share value £101,000) * We would like to staircase to 100% * our outstanding Mortgage is…
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Capital gains tax on owned property you don't live in
Hi, I owned a property 50:50 with my ex and he has recently bought me out. I understand I need to pay CGT on my half as I haven't lived there (minus 18 months). But then I thought that perhaps I don't need to pay tax as the property wasn't rented out and it wasn't buy to let, I simply had to move out for personal reasons…
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125k First Time Buyer, Where In Norfolk?
I am 32, single male and lived in Norwich all my life. I work at the Norfolk and Norwich hospital and rely on buses as I don't drive (This limits me a lot I know) I looking for my first property to buy (freehold). I have 30k desposit, no debt and can borrow approximately 95k according to my broker at L&C. This should…
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Rightmove sold price pictures
From many years using rightmove I've noticed that when a house is currently for sale and you go to check the sold price, the accompanying pictures (usually from the time the property was last sold) are no longer available and you can only see the current pictures from the latest advert. Thing is, my house is currently for…
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Internal Structural change - but no planning permission
Hi all. We are nearing completion on our first property. But as part of the Survey work, it was picked up that a chimney removal has taken place. But theres no evidence of building permission. The property is probate, therefore the owner cannot answer. Solicitors have requested evidence of planning permission as part of…
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Buying with potential to extend
Apologies for the very generic questions :) We're hoping to buy a house that we can potentially extend in the future and quite a few that I've looked at are already extended downstairs, but the bedroom/bathroom space upstairs is still limited! I've been perusing houses in the area/budget we're looking at and a lot of them…
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Sold House With Driveway Without Drop Kerb
Does anyone have any experience/advice how I can claim back the cost of installing a drop kerb/vehicle crossover, after being sold a house that said it had a driveway, though it didn't have a dropped kerb, which means that the driveway is illegal?........ The estate agents property details, stated there was a driveway and…
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How to get my house's EPC certificate
Hi I want to get hold of the EPC certificate for my house. All I have is the EPC grade which was on the estate agent's description when I bought the house 7 years ago. Is there a way I can access the full certificate? Thanks
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Buy before Sell, but only just.
I am aware that you have 30 days to pay the Stamp Duty on a property purchase and that if it is a 'second home' then there is an additional 3% to pay on the whole purchase amount. I am planning to complete on a purchase of a property before I sell my present home. However, I may complete on the sale of my present home…
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Buy to let stamp duty query
Hi, I recently bought a second home for my wife and kids to live in as we were going to be splitting up. As ever with relationships/complications etc we've now decided not to and so have this 'other' house. I bought the house a month ago for 60k so it was exempt from stamp duty but I'm now considering letting it out. My…
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Can i accept a higher offer, after already accepting?
Basically, my property is up for sale. A potential buyer offered the full asking price, which i accepted. Two weeks later she pulls out (after i've instructed solicitors, and started all the paper work). Then for two months i didn't hear anything (had one other viewing, but nothing came of it). Then last week, the buyer…
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"Releasing contract" - what does this mean?
Yesterday my solicitor released the contract. We have signed, all queries satisfied, the vendors have signed there. Completion is set for 28 September. Are we near exchange? It's just us and the vendors - we're renting and the house was a let so no chain. I'm in NI if it makes a difference.
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Copy of deeds
Hi all, Buying a house and my solicitor has asked me if I want copies of the title deeds (after completion). Do I actually require this? As I can pay a couple of quid and get deeds myself from the land registry; or are they talking about a different thing? They are also saying that they electronically archive our file of…
