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Buyers solicitor holding up sale
My Mum passed away at Easter and I took over the sale of her house, from social services, as she was in a care home. The buyer was chain free and said he was a cash purchase, and as I had to pay my mum’s care home fees from the sale I agreed to a slightly lower offer. After searches were done it went quiet, so I phone my…
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Agency reference and professional cleaning.
Hi everyone we are a couple living in London and we argue 2 point against the old agency In august my girlfriend and I found a new flat to rent The first problem we encountered is that the old agency requested us to pay 25£ each for sending reference to the new agency. After June 2019 we thought agency couldn’t request…
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How to conform with Agricultural Occupancy Order?
Hello. I have read a few threads on this issue, on here and elsewhere, but there's a couple of things I am not clear about. In short, these are can you be self-employed in the agricultural industry, and - if so - what could be successful ways of making useful income from a single acre of land? My sis-in-law is a school…
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Stamp duty query
I am selling my house and buying a park home, basically to release money to buy my granddaughter a flat. There is no stamp duty payable on the park home; will I still have to pay the full 3% on the flat, which will be in my name?
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Rent deposit return problem
Moved into a rented property through an estate agent last August. Managed by the estate agent (repairs etc), although private silent landlord. The inventory was horrendous and very damning on the condition of the property (paint, dirty etc), but as we were about to be homeless we had to take it. The agency felt sorry for…
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Developers retaining some land
Hi all, This is my first time posting so I’m hoping this will be coherent! I’m buying my first property on help to buy and am at the stage of reviewing draft contracts. It’s one of four flats within a converted house, where the garden is divided and allocated between flats. The estate agent explained the layout to me and…
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New job, relocation consideration. Help with determining the true rent scape of the area please?
Long story short, I am in the process of deciding whether to relocate from London where I am paying £250 PCM for a house share to a no-public-transport town in North Hertfordshire. I don't have a driving licence and hence have to live locally for the new job at net income £1500 per month. Local rents scape looks like the…
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Tenancy Renewal Fees
Hi, Not sure this is the right place to post but My letting agent recently sent me an email saying we need to renew our tenancy for another year and charged me £125 fees to do so! Is this even legal now I thought the government stopped these fees? We have lived here 3 years so perhaps it doesn't count unless it's a new…
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Misrepresentation. Claim back costs?
Hi all, I'm after some advice in relation to a possible misrepresentation claim. We live in a house owned by a housing association under a rent to buy scheme (we pay lower than market rates to enable us to save up enough deposit to buy the property). Early this year, we started to make enquiries about the property,…
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Am I right to reject house next to new development?
Hey all - cheapish houses up for sale but next to new building site for 995 house devt, am I right to say 'no chance'? I'm looking at houses in the Leighton Buzzard area and there are a lot up for sale in one area north of town and being reduced. I wondered why... solved it when I found out while viewing a couple that…
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Lower purchase price just before exchange
I am buying a new build from a developer. I just realised from paid price registry that my neighbour who bought exactly the same build as me (same square feet, same interior) just a couple of months earlier was paying nearly 15k lower than me. With current brexit situation, I don’t find the price I am paying is fair. We…
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Advice on investing as a group
Small group of childhood friends looking to buy property, renovate, and sell. Have some idea of the options available to do so from research on the internet. Before taking any concrete steps, would like to talk our situation through with a professional and decide what approach is best suited to our needs (I expect…
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someone drove into my wall before selling house!
I'm going to be repossessed soon because I lost my job & savings due to health issues (long story). I'm trying to sell the house before getting repossessed. While I'm busy preparing the house to sell, my friend drove me & my partner out for a coffee all together & she drove into my front driveway wall knocking it…
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Feeling over whelmed over new house
I’ve got the keys to my new home and feeling regret. I have left my big HMO to move into an area that I don’t feel safe in and also by myself. I have no reason not to feel safe, other than I don’t know the area. I feel like I’ve paid too much for the house and all the things you didn’t notice before, now I do. I cleaned…
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Uneven deposit and equal mortgage repayments
My partner and I are looking to buy a house. For arguments sake the house is 250,000 I am putting in 2,500 (1%) He is putting in 22,500 (9%) We will have a 90% mortgage worth 225,000 which will be split 50/50 in repayments. I believe this will make the house 46% mine (45% of the mortgage plus 1%) and 56% his. Question 1 -…
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Is valuation required with Buildings Survey?
Hi I am currently buying a house. The offer has been accepted, and that's where I am up to in the process. I'm currently organising the mortgage and survey. I have decided to get a Buildings Survey, and the surveyors are telling me that it doesn't include a valuation. My understanding is that the mortgage provider would do…
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Tenant in Hospital
I own a property and the tenant is in hospital and not expected to come out, we have just received a phone call from her relatives to inform us of this, the relatives live over 100 miles away and are quite elderly themselves they have informed me that they have stayed at the property overnight however, they never asked me…
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Little Chalfont, Croxley or Mill End
Hi Everyone, Anyone got an opinion on the best area to live in from these three for a first time buyer with my girlfriend. I have got two favourite houses that I have seen and also stuggling to pick a favourite. I am from Northwood and they both cost the same 1) One in Little Chalfont Pros- very well furnished, would need…
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Indemnity Policy?
Hello everyone, We are in the process of selling our property which is overseen by a management company. Unfortunately, we didn't have a sign off for some internal works that was completed 4 years ago (we had paid the necessary costs however old management company went into administration before signing off the works).…
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Ground rent
I am in the process of buying a flat. The ground rent increases by £175 every 10 years. Would this be considered an unreasonable increase? Thanks
