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Renting - Washing machine leak
Hi all, I need some advice please. I currently rent. I put the washing machine on and left for an hour. I came back and the kitchen was flooded. I immediately turned it off, and had to move the washing machine to see what was happening. In the process the vinyl underneath has ripped a little. There is a crack in the waste…
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Exterior paint job
Afternoon experts, Apologies if this has been asked before and if the answer is easy, please go easy! Terraced house. Neighbours house wall forms boundary with my back yard. Can I paint it? I’d be polite and speak to neighbours about if first. They would never see it, but it’s their brickwork. I’d be doing them a favour…
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Renting out foreign property
Hi all my elderly Mother-in-Law has a flat in Cyprus but is now longer well enough to travel there. So an obvious step for her now would to be rent it out. Because this would be "in absentia" I was thinking managing the property with someone like Air BnB (unless that has negative conoctations, I am sure there would be a…
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Easist buyers to deal with?
My property is attracting a mix of developers/investors/etc and Joe Public. Which in you experience are the most/least stressful to deal with? I'm thinking gazundering:(, pulling out:(, etc. Thanks
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Best way to achieve 340,000
We’re planning to sell a 3 bed semi in a suburb of Oxford. There are lots on the market around us sitting at 375 for months that don’t sell and end up dropping to about 360. Our house whilst nice, hasn’t been extended as much as them, is a little smaller, doesn’t have a modern open plan kitchen and has a shared drive.…
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Council Tax implications on MDR
We live in Wales We bought a house which has an annexe. Total value in a single transaction £375k. LTT was paid at std rate ie. £8.7k The annexe has its own council tax band. However council tax has an exemption because planning restriction prevents the annexe being used as a separate dwelling and it is therefore…
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Vendor refusing viewing before exchange
We are FTB and nearly ready to exchange. We had our offer accepted beginning of August. We have been pressed into exchanging ASAP since the process started; we took our time ensuring all the surveys were OK (including some follow up inspections) but have otherwise been pretty efficient. We were unsuccessful in negotiating…
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how long is left on this lease
Hi, my 99 years lease started on June the 1st 2000. How many years are left on my lease? more or less than 80 years? I need to call my freeholder, but before I do that I want to know for sure. Would marriage fees apply?
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Tenancy deposit problem
Hello everyone, I hope you can help me with my problem:I moved out of a property that I rented for 2 years and I am having problems getting the deposit of the real estate agency.The full story: I moved out a month ago and I couldn't attend the end of tenancy inspection as I was in work at the time.A few days latter I…
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Savings request
My mother, is now in her eighties and struggling with her health, recently been given an oxygen bottle to use in the home. At the moment mum owns her own three bedroom house, which she struggles to get upstairs, so she has applied to the local council to rent a flat or bungalow, to make it easier for her, she has had all…
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Easement Indemnity
We are selling part of our property to a neighbour. His solicitor keeps insisting we find an indemnity policy to submit to her. Basically there is an easement that has some 30 years yet to expire across this piece of land for the owner of a field adjacent to put in and maintain services. As the field abuts a highway and…
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Seller didnt declare subsidence
Hi everyone! I'm after a little advice around what must legally be disclosed by the seller of a property prior to making an offer on a house. Background We found a house we liked, put in an offer which was accepted and then began the process of purchasing the house. For this so far we've spent a few thousand pounds on…
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Unfair deductions from deposit
I need some advice on where to go next. Sorry this is a long one. Basically we moved into a property in 2017 all was fine for a year or so but then the landlord wanted us out and started inventing various things we had apparently done wrong – all of which were false btw and only started when we asked the landlord to fix…
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Asking Price Reduction Apps
Asking price reductions in my target areas are coming in thick and fast on Rightmove. I was recently told by someone here about the Property Log extension for Rightmove, which is really useful, because it marks all the reductions on each listing, and means I have no problem trying to remember the size of previous…
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How quickly can a house sale complete after contract signing?
Hi My house is being sold (no chain), to a party who are in a chain of one. Everything has been agreed on all sides, and searches complete, and I have signed my contract. The people who are buying my buyers house (cash buyer) have not signed contracts yet, and are unable to do so till next friday (4th Oct), when they are…
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Easements
Hi all, just a quick question to anyone who’s well versed in this area of property law. If on a title deed there is an easement that refers to allowing access for the council as the owners of the land, does that same right pass to any future owner.
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Renting renewal fees
Hi can anyone advise. I have rented a property since Feb 2014 via a letting agent and signed an initial agreement that did advise about renewal fees. I am generally asked by email nearing the time of renewal if and how I would like to continue and I have always emailed back asking for the tenancy to be renewed for a…
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New Build and Mortgage Broker Recommendation
Hello All, First time poster here looking for anyone with a similar experience to ours. We reserved a plot on a new build house a few weeks ago. All was going well and we spoke to the recommended mortgage company for new builds who the sales office for the builder recommended. To our suprise they actually got a mortgage…
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Environmental search not passed- mortgage application
Hi all, I’m in desperate need of advice. Me and my partner were literally due to exchange contracts today and complete next week, only to receive news from our solicitor stating that they received local search and that the property did not pass environmental search and a moderate to high risk of subsidence! Our broker…
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Help with a buyer enquiry
Hi everyone We are trying to sell our place and the buyers solicitor has been very slow but we finally have their enquiries. We have been asked to provide the conditional permission for the house when it was originally built in 1995. Does anyone know why my solicitor would ask me to provide this? We have only owned the…
