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Buying a house with outstanding building regs….advice 🤗 welcome
Hi all. I’m after some advice or clarification on what I’m c89 to which I can only assume the single storey garage with pitched roof to match the bungalow was completed then. A buildings reg application was put in around 2008 to change the garage into a bedroom. This building regs were never closed and it’s still ‘open’…
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Selling via auction?
A friend has done the probate on his father's estate and he is selling the house. I was surprised when the house was listed for auction, thinking it would get a lower price. But Google seems to think it's normal to sell a house via auction after probate. The house does need updating and a little work, but is it just being…
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Selling fast?
When my mother in law passed away, we inherited money and her house. My Partner is executor and everything was left to her. We have obtained probate and after bringing the property up to a good standard, we are now ready to sell it. We own our own home which is undergoing refurbishment. We paid our mortgage off with some…
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Possible Invalid Section 21 Notice – Advice Appreciated
Hi all, I would appreciate some advice regarding a Section 21 notice. I have been renting a studio flat under an AST for a few years and recently received a Section 21 after the landlord had been trying to sell the property for quite a long time. I have always paid rent on time and there have never been any rent arrears or…
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No right of access & indemity policy
Hello, I am looking for some advice. I am in the process of purchasing a property that was built just over 10 years ago and has a driveway for 3 cars. We found out that part of the land that allows access to the driveway belongs to the neighbour (more or less 60%). It is "just" the access (i.e. a wide and small strip of…
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Hold-ups when buying leasehold property
I'm buying a leasehold flat, and was aware from the start that leasehold can be more complicated / take a bit longer than freehold. A few months in, and the solicitor is still waiting on some information from the freeholder. Presumably the freeholder is in no hurry to locate and send this information, or possibly are…
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How to get equity, force a sale and remove a borrower. What are my options?
I half own a three bed house in Dublin. My ex still lives in the house. We have about 7 years left to pay off the mortgage. I stopped paying in 2014. The mortgage was started in April 2008. I have no clue how to force a sale. I have gone down the route to remove me as a borrower but she refuses to do this. Can anyone let…
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Mortgage clause help damp/timber survey
Offer accepted, mortgage has put clauses on and confused re exactly what they mean, solicitor directed us to estate agent, estate agent confirmed seller not willing to pay anything but is happy for us to... Mortgage clause attached. We are OK with getting builder for work on ceilings between exchange and completion, going…
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Names added to deeds of inherited house but don’t remember signing anything.
10 years ago mum (widow) had my and my sister’s names added to her (owned outright, freehold) property deeds. We have the Land Registry document (but no other relevant documents) which has all three of us listed under section: ‘B. Proprietorship Register’; ‘Title Absolute’ However, we have no (and apologies if any of these…
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Lease wording regarding whose responsibility it is to maintain windows
I have a flat in a Victorian house conversion and I just want check the wording of the lease to confirm that I am responsible for the windows in the property rather than the freeholder and if so would that include the outside of the frames as well, they are wooden sash windows. All the sash windows in the flats within the…
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Unregistered lease on Land Registry title
Hello, this is a long shot but I'm wondering whether someone can help me to understand a problem we're having with our house sale. We bought our current house in 2014 and discovered in the process that an offer had been made to sell the freehold to the previous occupier. After purchase we took up that offer and had the…
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Is there an easy way to get alerted to new planning applications?
I'm currently in the process of purchasing my first house. I'm curious whether there's an easy way to see planning applications nearby, ideally on a map. I'm definitely not a NIMBY, but I'm still interested to see how the rest of the development will expand (it's a New Home).
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Can/should my estate agent give me info on the full purchase chain?
I'm currently in a chain that's 5 links long (was in a 4 link chain before but it fell through). I'm rather keen not to just know about my vendors and buyers, but my buyers' buyers and their buyers. I'm pretty sure my estate agent knows the details of this (like their estate agents and properties, at least, not sure about…
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Capital Gains Tax on % of a property.
I'm now investigating the subject of CGT which will be rearing its ugly head in the near future… Quick overview: Self and sibling added to widowed mum's house deeds in 2016 (house owned outright, no mortgage). No other relevant documents so, barring anything suggesting otherwise, it's assumed we at that point each owned…
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Unauthorised tenancy - options?
My adult son (vulnerable, safeguarded) has lived in the same privately rented flat for 14 years. The flat was sourced with the help of Mencap as a support agent, but through the same avenues (letting agents, letting websites) as anyone would use. Cutting a very long story short - the owner of the property, who we had never…
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Succession on a pre 2012 tenancy
Hi all, I lived with my grand father on and off since 2018, and permanently since October 2023. In December 2024 he passed away. I was on the rent book, and me living here took into account housing benefit etc... . I believe I have a right to succession on this basis, it was a 1 bedroom flat and I slept on the sofa. I gave…
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Self Storage renewal price 13% above undiscounted list price. Is it legal?
Screenshot above is what they say the un-discounted, non-new customer price is versus what they're now charging me (13% more). I'm not using their insurance or other extras so is a like-for-like comparison. The price was £58 before and the increase based on "a review of list prices across our stores and unit sizes" but…
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Periodic Tenancy Agreement Template (private landord)
Hi all, Could anyone advise me on where to obtain a Periodic Tenancy Agreement Template for a private landlord, please? Also, where can I download a Right to Rent document? Many thanks Bruno
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Buying next house with commercial building on the land
Hi everyone, I am looking at buying our next house, as part of the house there is a commercial building at the bottom where the last owners converted it to a summer house type space. It's quite large and we had the idea of turning it into an AirBnB. Just wondered if anyone knew the costs/things to go through to get it…
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SDLT second home
I sold my main residence >3 years ago, and have been living in my Mum's house, half of which I inherited 20 years ago. I now want to buy a house with my girlfriend, and believe I'm liable for second home SDLT due to the inherited share and >3 years since I sold my main res. She has a small house, no mortgage, which she…
