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This house buying malarky is hard
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Here's our history
First flat we offered on was accepted all went well until the survey showed that the foundations were unsound and it was about to collapse (narrow escape)
Second house was accepted and then we were gazumped (this happened last week)
Third house we offered on and was accepted but then sellers changed their minds and took the property off the market.
We're in an ideal position; we're in rented with a 50% deposit and raring to go. We're going to see another place on Thursday but this is a totally different prospect to anything else we have seen. It needs total internal refurb. It's a three bed flat so I assume that means new kitchen, bathroom, carpets, decorating etc and probably new wiring? So here comes the question, can anyone tell me if there is a site I could use to get a rough idea of how much this would cost? I'd need to have some idea to know whether or not we can afford it. I'm wondering if we are just not destined to own our own place.
First flat we offered on was accepted all went well until the survey showed that the foundations were unsound and it was about to collapse (narrow escape)
Second house was accepted and then we were gazumped (this happened last week)
Third house we offered on and was accepted but then sellers changed their minds and took the property off the market.
We're in an ideal position; we're in rented with a 50% deposit and raring to go. We're going to see another place on Thursday but this is a totally different prospect to anything else we have seen. It needs total internal refurb. It's a three bed flat so I assume that means new kitchen, bathroom, carpets, decorating etc and probably new wiring? So here comes the question, can anyone tell me if there is a site I could use to get a rough idea of how much this would cost? I'd need to have some idea to know whether or not we can afford it. I'm wondering if we are just not destined to own our own place.
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I feel for you.
We're about to exchange on a house but finding and securing one was a long, hard, and often disappointing process before we stumbled across this one.
Unfortunately, I don't know of such a site but I'd be interested if there is one.0 -
Perhaps you could arrange a builder to give you a quote?
Try this site it maybe of some help for pricing up building work http://www.whatprice.co.uk/0 -
yep, i started a thread about this the other day, vendors not seeing the reality of the situation and pricing their properties (and expecting) way above what are now the current prices
we are now in the process of bidding again for a different place, but again, my investigations have found that there are no building regs approval for a thru kitchen diner they created at some point. we are viewing again tomorrow before we make another offer so i will ask them about it. im sure that it was a supporting wall they took down but it may not have been, in which case no approval was needed, but if it was,,,,,,,, another property with stumbling blocks0
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