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Student Council Tax Advice
My son has recently completed his degree course - his course finished on 14 June. He lived in a shared house with 3 other full time students. The tenancy agreement ran until 22 August. One of the students was a foreign student and has now returned back to Spain, the other 2 students failed the year and have now got to…
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potential scam on rent charges
hi all I would like to give some Facts of a potential scam that is going on in my area. I would like you to read it and raise awareness in case similar happen to you. * In 2015, my wife purchased a property in south east England, registered solely in her name. The title includes a restriction known as a "Deed of Rent…
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Is it better tax-wise to have all bills included in the rent or bills in the names of the tenants?
Hi all. Hope this is in the right part of the forum. I have a house with 4 bedrooms which I rent out to 4 separate tenants. To date I have been charging a monthly rent that reflects the fact that all the bills are in my name. Last year my income tax bill tripled and I believe this is because HMRC's rules now result in tax…
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Welsh water plans wrong, live pipe running under existing extension and where new extension is going
Does anyone have experience with this? We purchased a bungalow and paid for the searches with the intention of extending an existing extension. Searches came back fine for the extension and planning permission was approved. On digging the foundations a pipe was discovered, Welsh water first said it was a live pipe, then it…
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CGT on selling rental property
I bought a rental property in 1993 with my husband for £78,950. In 2011 It was transferred to me on divorce valued at £215,000 I am now planning to sell it hopefull for about £250,000 How do I work out my CG T liabllity when it comes to paying the tax? Thanks
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Require Right to Manage Advice
Hi everyone, Newbie here asking for desperate advice. I am a Leaseholder, one of four flats. We have a service management company, who are charging us exorbitant charges for hardly any decent service. When any work is done, it's poor & the contractors appointed are 'cowboys'. When I complain, I am always 'Gaslight' that…
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Leasehold flat
I own a leasehold flat. The freeholder passed away 6months ago. No one has applied for probate.my lease states freeholder is responsible for house insurance which has run out and not been renewed. all communication with daughter has been jgnored what can I do as without probate I cannot sell my flat.
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Letting residential property for storage
Hi i have a house converted into two flats. The bottom flat has been rented by an elderly person for the last 15-20 years at a low static rent. The top flat has been empty for a number of years and requires substantial renovation. For the last few years, the elderly lady has been using one of the rooms in the top flat to…
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2nd home SDLT surcharge
Hi, I recently purchased a new property (Home 2) before selling my existing one (Home 1) and paid additional stamp duty (2nd home). Home 1 is now rented out on a 1 year lease but is also up for sale. Assuming it sells within 3 years, will I still be able to claim back the 2nd home SDLT even though it won't have been my…
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Lodger's rights to guests
My girlfriend has a lodger agreement with her landlord. My girlfriend's sister will be visiting from Australia soon and her landlord has refused a request for her to temporarily stay in the property (in my girlfriend's room, which she has exclusive rights to under the lodger agreement) as a guest for part of her stay in…
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Stamp Duty While owning a consent to let.
Good Evening! Hopefully will have some views on this, I currently own another properry. We moved out of it 2 years ago and it’s been a rental property in the mean time and we’ve been renting while we tried to find somewhere else to buy. We relocated from one side of England to the other. We’ve now had an offer accepted on…
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Complicated issue in housing association housing
My mother lives in sheltered and my brother stays with her a few nights , his living situation isn't great so suits both parties as my mum is in poor health. My brother is an addict and a 2 years ago he wasn't in a great place and there were incidents of him borrowing money of neighbours. Police were involved and he was…
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Parking on Council owned land
can the council restrict a parking space that was previously used by residents? It was also used by access vehicles and emergency vehicles now it’s locked off and access is restricted into our properties which is mixed Council land privately owned. Now we have to walk quite far to find parking. Is there anything we can do…
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Freehold house with leasehold driveway: what could go wrong?
I've recently viewed a house to buy. It's one of a block of 4 new build houses, each with their own freehold, but there is a shared driveway which is leasehold (999 years) and for which the freeholder is a major land/estates owner in the area. I'm aware of the pitfalls of leaseholds in general but what sort of thing can go…
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Fire Door Requirement
Hi I've received a letter from the managing agents about having the front door inspected for fire safety. I live in a ground floor flat that has its own dedicated porch and exit outside into a large front area that then leads onto the street. I have no communal areas or stairs at all and am completely self contained. I am…
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Housing Association trying to do a repair and enter property whilst not there and without consent
Hi everyone, I’m hoping someone can offer advice on a situation that’s left me feeling shocked and violated. We live in a housing association property. On 1st July, one of our double-glazed windows suddenly went bang and shattered. We’d reported this window multiple times over the past year—it was visibly dropped in the…
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Sole seller agreement query
Hi all, i advertised my house to sell via an EA in Jan this year, then took it off the market after a month as i had decided not to sell. When i ready to sell again I found a private buyer through a colleague. The Contract with the EA expired 2 months ago and now im in a position to exchange and complete with my buyer but…
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Instant cash sale house
Hi, I'm looking into various things at the moment, and Im wanting to try getting a couple of offers, with no strings attached, to buy my house outright, rather than going down the usual estate agents route etc. I do have genuine reasons for even considering it, and need to get some idea of the difference in valuations etc.…
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Conveyancing with solar installation
Hello! We recently moved house, completing on 1st July. Our new house has solar panels and we're complete novices in this space...but learning, and it's largely positive! We've hit a brick all with the transfer of the FIT payments from the previous owner to us, and require a signed letter from our solicitors to send to the…
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Transfer of property ownership DIY
I want to give my adult son a house he currently lives in with a friend/lodger. The house has no mortgage. I know I will pay CGT on the increased value since I bought it. It looks quite straightforward to do the gift myself with the Land Registry forms, since even an online solicitor would charge over £700, and I can't see…
