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Advice On Planning Permission Post-Purchase
Hi all, looking for some advice on a situation I've found myself in. I bought my flat and moved in in September 2017. The flat is a converted shop made in to 2 flats and I own the ground floor flat. The 1st floor flat was always listed as resedential for use whereas my flat was for commercial use and that was changed…
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Moving into vacant property
I'm expecting to exchange and complete on a house very soon. It is vacant and my belongings have been in storage for 6 months so minimum virus risk. Has anybody got tips on how to keep removal men and myself safe, handing over keys, and basically anything that might prove difficult during lockdown?
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Short term Rental property: best place to advertise?
I own two very successful holiday bungalows which are currently sitting empty. I've decided to look for short-term (90 day) lodgers/rental but obviously worried about the difference between holiday makers and long term rental. Has anyone any experience of this? I'm aquainted with contracts as I've a friend who lets her…
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Completion next week?
We exchanged approx 3 weeks ago and due to complete on the 3rd April. Our buyer is out of the country and on Friday we found out he was struggling to get his finances together to complete so therefore asking for postponement of completion. Our estate agent is trying to get more info here. Our buyer isnt looking to move…
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Reduce price after missives
Hi MSE! Going out of my mind with worry and running worst case scenarios! We have a concluded missive from our buyer, we can’t move as the registers of Scotland has closed and our move isn’t essential, have no idea when we will be able to move as it should have been last week. If the market value of my house were to reduce…
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End of tenancy inspection
Does anybody have any advice on the end of tenancy inspection during coronavirus? I'm aware and fully complying with not going to the property to complete this but wondering whether legally I still have to return their deposit within the recommend 10 days? I can't seem to find any information online about this. Thanks
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How to evict Tenant not paying rent
I am writing this post on behalf of my dad who is currently out of the country and struggling to return due to coronavirus His tenant has not paid any rent since 14/12//2019 and is now essentially more than 8 wks in arrears. A section 21 was served on 26/01/20 giving 2 months notice to leavewhich ended on 22/03/20. It was…
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Mortgage offer delayed by Coronavirus
Hello, Hope all of you are safe and well. Ok, so after a year of searching we finally liked a place to buy and we did apply for a Halifax house mortgage at 5% deposit basis the house price/offer accepted. We got an initial acceptance of our mortgage and then a house valuation was booked for this week. Unfortunately just a…
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Buying a house and cant exchange due to Land registry
Wondering if someone can advise me! I am in the process of buying a house and am ready to exchange, the seller of the property part exchanged it when they bought their house and now I am buying it off the developer Morris Homes. Completely stuck as my lender wants to see the Land registry in the name of Morris Homes and I…
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Furloughed when looking to move
Hi. We are in the process of moving house, our house is sold and pretty close to being ready to go but obviously with all the recent goings on we can't proceed as of yet, we've found a property and would like to offer but the problem I have is if I do get furloughed onto the 80% does this then affect what we can lend when…
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INCOMPETENT SOLICITORS
We sold our house at auction, and our solictors sent the completion statement to the purchasers solicitor, who sent funds across to the former. The funds landed in our account. Later the same day of completion, our solicitor emailed to say, quote, 'we take responsibility for the mistake of sending the wrong figure on the…
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HTB extension?
Hi all, anyone else in a situation where they are hoping to secure a new build by using the HTB scheme as a non first time buyer? The rules change April 2021 to first time buyers only, however with coronavirus impacting everything does anyone else believe there could be an extension to the current HTB policies where it is…
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Getting out of a joint tenancy
I entered into a 12 month joint assured shorthold tenancy "AST" on 28 February 2018 with 2 other tenants. It was renewed for 12 months from 28 February 2019; on renewal there was a (the first) change of tenant, then 6 months from 28 August 2019 a second change of
tenant occurred. That
last AST expired on 27 February 2020…
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Ending tenancy in current situation
We've just purchased our first property - all moved just in time - but we gave notice nearly a month ago on our rented property and were due to hand the keys back to the agent early April. However, with the virus at the moment, we're can't go to the rented property to finish cleaning and don't know when we could get a…
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Transfer money to uk from canaries
Hi just sold my place in Tenerife looking for best deals to transfer 124000€ to uk (Sterling) Thanks
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Planning permission rejection
Hi, looking for some information regarding an issue I've had with planning permission. Our plans were rejected, but the land registry have not updated the neighbours extension they have had which is very modern. The rejection is on the grounds that our extension would not be inkeeping with the surrounding area, and sent us…
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Studant accomodation
We have daughter's last instalment of studant private halls accomodation rent to pay on April 1st can we delay this payment because our pub has closed due to covid 19 situation . She left the halls on march 17th because University closed.
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Do we continue with our house move during Corona pandemic?
We secured a buyer for our house and had an offer agreed on another before the Corona outbreak. We haven't yet exchanged contracts although we will have spent around £2000 on costs up to now. Should we pull out - is this going to be like 2008 where house prices drop and take years to recover? Will we end up paying a pre…
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Found a place to rent, getting salary increase to FT by move in... what do I do?
Hello, all I need some advice. I found a place to rent that I quite like. However, I’m currently on a PT salary but this will change by the move in date in May. I will be swapping my hours with a colleague who is returning from maternity leave , and she will take my hours and I will take her hours (so she can come back PT…
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Fix Category 3 Homebuyers’s Report issues as condition of offer?
Hello everyone I’m a first time buyer and recently had a HomeBuyer’s Report completed on a property I intend to purchase. Would it be reasonable for me to ask for the following two Category 3 issues to be fixed by the seller as a condition of the sale? If so, would I request this through my solicitor or the estate agent?…
