How to force a house sale?

sonastin · 15 February 2011 at 1:26PM

Do you have any leverage through the way he runs his business? Is it a limited company or is he a sole-trader? If its limited, I think you can access his accounts through companies house. Take a look for yourself to see if there's any money left over. Does he do any work that could be cash-in-hand? Could the offer of a little "chat" with HMRC give him an incentive to get you out of his life. Even if he's completely above board and legit with his declared income and tax returns, if it is the sort of work where he could be paid in cash, a tax investigation could make his life very difficult for a few months...

mixyminx · 13 February 2012 at 4:17PM

FYI - my partner and i are currently using a solicitor to force the sale of his house - it took 5 months to get the house on the market at a cost of £2200 to date - we are now going to get a court order to force the sale of the property which has had several offers all reasonable that we are willing to accept - his ex who is residing in the property (we are paying the mortgage) is refusing sale, she cannot prove affordability - we are continuing to pay the mortgage as we want to buy a house together and we dont want him blacklisted.

we have applied to the courts for cost of the court order but we will be left with the solicitors bill - how ever this is the only way - through the legal system that you can force sale if one party does not agree.

Perhaps you should see another solicitor as i dont know where the quote of £20k has come from .......

The law is pretty simple if you own a property with another person and one of you wants to sell - the other needs to either buy you out or be forced to sell by the courts.