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Anwyl Homes - New Builds - Optional Upgrades/Extras?
Good Evening, I’m just wondering if anyone could perhaps provide any advice, please. My wife and I have recently early-bird reserved a new-build house (off-plan) from Anwyl Homes and are currently awaiting a date to turn this into Full-Reservation, which is expected to be in about a months time. We’re yet to see what the…
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What shall I include in my crib sheet for my EA?
I thought it would be useful to write up a crib sheet for my EA. Thought, they have a lot of houses on their books, doing multiple viewings so it would be quite easy to forget about useful facts about the house. So far I have the following categories, Supermarkets Shopping Schools Amenities Restaurants Attractions Public…
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Buyer solicitor too slow?
Does this seem unreasonably slow to you? Almost 3 months into a chain free sale. The conveyancer for the buyer literally didn't do anything until the searches were back (took them 3 weeks to order them) and then proceeded to wait 3 weeks before raising any enquiries - at this point 2 months had gone by! The answers to the…
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Can I Request that the Other Party Changes Conveyancer?
We are selling a 6 year house on a new build estate, and are currently into month 7 of the process. We are getting increasingly frustrated with the buyers solicitor delaying and requesting unnecessary documents that either don't exist or are irregular in any other house sale on the same estate. Can we suggest to the buyers…
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Non responsive management company on new build estate/rentcharge issue.
Hello. I am in the process of purchasing a property on a new build estate (property itself is previously owned however), which is subject to an estate rentcharge. I was originally hoping to complete soon, but due to this issue we are having big time delays. I've came here for some advice because at the moment I am not…
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Landlord/ Tenancy/ Occupation types - legal status??
Hoping someone experienced can advise. Background: We own outright (i.e no mortgage) a detached house and there is a detached annexe in the garden in UK. The annexe is a self contained one bedroom studio apartment. Only we and our family members are allowed to live in it as per the conditions on the planning permission. My…
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Right of Access for Repair (Scotland)
Hello. No idea if this belongs in this forum, but here goes... We live in a small, rural village in Scotland. Our house is a detached cottage, in a row of detached cottages. On one side we have what is now a second home for someone, and on the other we used to have an elderly neighbour. Said neighbour recently died, and…
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New build enquiries
Hi everyone, Hope you're all ok! I was wondering if anyone had any insight in to what enquiries have to be carried out for new builds? A bit of background: * We are first time buyers who have been trying and failing to buy for the last 4 years (many failed offers, housing demand where we are looking) * We are buying from a…
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Buying an ex LA house on a council estate over private
Some background:- I currently live in an ex local authority house and am selling up for something bigger as this house is too small for my growing family, we also would like to buy our own home together as this one was mine and my ex husband's house. Sooo... we found the perfect house, the first one we viewed. It was all…
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Buying a house for my mother
Hi All, Apologies have searched historic posts but nothing seems to answer the query. My mother lives in a housing association property with some interesting characters next door and isn't in a position to purchase her own property. I am in the fortunate position where I am able to purchase a house in an area she likes…
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Overpaying for property in 2021?
I bought my first flat in Summer 2021 during the stamp duty holiday in Kentish Town, London. I paid the asking price which was verified by a RICS home buyer report (Survey level 2 valuation). Nearly a year on, I have been looking at other comparable properties that transacted around the same time and I am starting to worry…
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Buyer enquiries - are these reasonable requests for me to pay for?
Hi, I've never sold a property before, so was hoping for some guidance on whether my buyer's enquiries are things I should agree to pay for. I'm selling a leasehold flat to an investor, so he's probably fairly savvy! So, the things he's asking for are: 1) I had a new boiler installed 3 years ago, but it's not been…
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Help to Buy LISA query
Hi all, Any advice greatly appreciated. Myself and my partner are in the process of buying a house and are halfway through the process. We have a 40k deposit made up of 30k LISA (15k per head-12k deposit rach and 3k gov topup) As we are now in a new Tax Year we are contemplating topping up again to get another 1k bonus…
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Struggling to tell if asking price is realistic
My partner and I are hoping to move from London to Manchester in the summer. We've seen a city centre property we really like but we're struggling to work out whether the asking price is realistic. I know the usual advice would be to look at similar properties and prior sale prices. However, this property has been newly…
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Long term rental?
Wondered what you’d all make of this, as it’s not something I’ve come across before - unfurnished/no white goods flat available, being advertised for ‘long term lease’ of 3 years, to be paid quarterly and inclusive of rates. Price is low for the current climate, though there’s no internal photos, and it’s electric heating…
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When do I instruct conveyancing?
Hi, My purchase of a house has been accepted. When I sell mine SSTC, is it at this point where my part of the chain is complete, and I should instruct Conveyancing to kick the process off? I wish to port my current mortgage over with no additional borrowing, shall I get this part started before I've sold my house or at the…
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Conveyancing timeline
Just contacted our conveyancer to check in how things were moving along with our house purchase and they still haven’t recieved contract documentation from the sellers solicitor. It was requested just over 3 weeks ago. Is this normal ? No chain so should be straight forward purchase
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Is being top of the chain most advantageous?
I've offered and got accepted an offer privately. My house is going on sale on rightmove this week. My Sellers have said if they cannot find anywhere in time, they will move in with her Parents. The Sellers have offered last week but got rejected, but no other interest in property so this may go through anyway. If I become…
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Stamp Duty Land Tax
We are about to start the process of
purchasing the freehold interest in the property that we own. I understand that we could be liable to
pay Stamp Duty Land Tax and would like to know if this is based on the property
price or the price we are paying for the freehold interest. Does anyone know the answer to this please.
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party wall
I live in end terrace house and the grass alongside is not within my boundry - it belongs to a management org for communal grass is the side exterior if my house considered party wall, ?
