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Being charged to get a reference from a previous landlord - vacated property in April 2020
Hi all, Wondering if anybody could shed some light please. I am currently looking to rent a property and they have asked for references from previous landlords. Not a problem of course from my current landlord but my previous one is asking for £60 for the privilege! I entered the tenancy with them in March 2019 so I know…
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Building regs completion certificate
Has anyone been asked to provide this to the buyers? if so where did you find it? We rang our solicitor from when we bought the house 10 years ago, but they have nothing.
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Anyone buying a new build from Persimmon Homes - The Foxfields
Hii! I have just created this post to see who else is purchasing a home at Persimmon homes Foxfields Development. i am hoping to move there soon and would love to get to know the neighborhood! i am moving from 4 hours away to the neighborhood and am quite nervous! hope we can get to know one another for the comfort of our…
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Sellers pulled out of their purchase, now can’t find house.
I’m a first time buyer, currently in rented accommodation and had an offer accepted on a house at the beginning of May. Our sellers found a house and the chain was complete so we went ahead with surveys, solicitors and the like. A couple of months later, our sellers pulled out of their purchase and so needed to find…
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Buying advice old house
I am interested in buying an old house currently being lived by an elderly couple, the house need complete revamp, and perhaps will need extension at some point to accommodate my growing family. I am not sure how difficult it would be get planning permission for extension ( it is in a conservation area). The house itself…
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Morgage Valuation London - Reinforced Concrete and Adjacent Non-Residential Uses
Hi All, I am looking to purchase a 2 bed flat in Stratford, one of the glass building just next to the station street. I've got an offer accepted and mortgage valuation carried out. However, the morgage valuation report mentioned that future saleability may be affected due to the following : - Adverse Locational Factors :…
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Council tax on uninhabited property
We may not like paying council tax, but we do just get on and pay it. What information doesn't seem to be in the public domain without doing a lot of searching is the rule regarding uninhabited property, when the property is not mortgageable, because it is not habitable.. A property came up for sale and someone bought it…
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Maliciously stopping sale of house
Can a neighbour having made a verbal agreement in 2012, make no complaint, then maliciously invent a "dispute" to stop sale of my house? Over past 4 months I have proved neighbour's claims are FALSE. But neighbour now complaining a few centimetres of gutter overhangs so I still cant remarket my house. And neighbour is…
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Exchanging contacts
Our buyer is pushing to exchange contracts but our contract isn't ready to exchange on our onward purchase and our solicitor said that's it's not possible to exchange contracts without a completion date set. As we don't have a completion date for our onward purchase we can't give this and the solicitor has said once the…
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Seller delaying exchanging contracts - Buying house off of divorcing couple with children - problems
Discovered a couple of weeks ago that the week we were due to exchange the seller stopped this process due to Divorce settlement not being in place. All the chain our buyers and ourselves are ready to exchange contracts. Has anyone else experience this at the 11th hour? Any advice would be super appreciated
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Declaring Problems With Neighbours When Doing A Housing Association Swap?
Hi,I just wondered if anyone might have been in a similar situation to mine, as I've not dealt with anything like this before. We were given a housing association property recently which we were over the moon about - we'd had several years of problems with neighbours in our private rental but couldn't afford to move…
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Has anyone had success with ‘leafletting’?
We’re been looking for a house to buy for almost a year, we’ve had several purchases fall through, and we’re getting pretty desperate now (landlord has predictably given us a s21 after we insisted on repairs. I know that doesn’t mean we have to leave on that date etc, but the stress he causes is getting too much). The…
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Residential to BTL mortgage
Hi, I know there’s been a few posts about buy to let mortgages etc on here recently but I have a relatively specific question I currently own a house with my wife. We had planned to sell it but hit a brick wall with our buyer due to not having building regs for some work, so the buyer pulled out. We had already considered…
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Asking the council for somewhere to live
Got made redundant from my job a few months ago and since then have been living on redundancy money, universal credit and a few temp jobs. I rent privately and never told my landlord I lost my job (didn't feel the need to, wouldn't struggle to pay the rent) however my tenancy is up for renewal in a few months and they will…
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Switching from residential mortgage to buy to let
I'm looking at renting out my current flat, as it's not had any offers since i've put it up for sale back in May. I am going to apply for a consent to let with the mortgage lender, but one thing i'm not sure about is how switching to buy to let works after the consent to lent period expires. my understanding is buy to let…
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Removal costs
Hi all. I have searched the forum for this but most threads seem very old or closed. We are doing a long distance move from Manchester to Devon. Need a big truck. Been quoted £2000.we pack they load. 2 days needed. Is this roughly in line of what to expect? Anyone done a comparable journey recently? Thanks
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Leasehold problem on Townhouse Selling
We have lived in a leasehold townhouse that we are now selling and have had no problems. Now we are selling the property a totally unexpected issue has arisen. Basically the leasehold currently states that if the yearly leasehold payment is missed that the freeholders can take control of the property without having to…
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Tenancy on Unseen property
My neice has just arrived at University from abroad. She went to get the keys to her accomodation and was told she had to sign the tenancy agreement and pay deposit before seeing the property. On seeing it she is devastated, its filthy, has holes in the internal wall her words "its disgusting". She has rung me in floods of…
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Waiting for lender
Hi all, could someone advise if it's usual for a lender to take almost two weeks to give the go ahead to the buyers solicitor for exchange? Our buyers have paid their deposit and signed their contracts but still waiting for their lender to sign it off.
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Buying a property under a limited company
Hello all I have an apartments on a permission to let which I am now looking to re mortgage to a buy to let. This is the only property I own, I am currently living with my partner in his home. We are looking to sell his home and buy together and keep my flat If I re mortgage my property under a limited company (I…
