Selling a house What am I obliged to leave in the house

147718

I am selling a property
Are there any items which I must leave in the house
Is it better to have curtains and carpets,say, included in the house selling price which would then attract estate agents fee or try and sell them separately to the buyer
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muskoka

its entirely your choice what you leave in the house upon selling. Carpets and curtains are frequently left, but not always. Some people take curtain poles/lightbulbs/anything they can when they sell, but most people are prepared to leave carpets .......at some stage your solicitor will ask you to complete a fixtures & fittings list whereby you confirm what you are leaving (i.e. shed, carpets, whatever). This list is then forwarded to the buyers solicitor.

You may wish also to try to sell some stuff onto the buyer instead of taking it. i.e. white goods?? though you wont get much for them, they dont attract stamp duty provided they are realistically priced. Some buyers may expect certain items to be left by the sellers i.e. white goods. Its horses for courses & varies on every sale/purchase what the seller/buyer agree between them.

HappyMJ

You don't need to leave anything. Anything that is permanently fitted and can't be removed without a screwdriver is usually expected to be left. i.e the built-in oven, the doors and the bathroom suite. If I leave I'll be taking the laminate flooring but leaving the carpet. I'll leave the curtains and light fittings as well. I won't be charging the buyer for anything though I'll just leave it for free.

PasturesNew

A buyer might be miffed that you're trying to flog your 2nd hand carpets/curtains to them. I'd leave them for free.

Davesnave

PasturesNew wrote: »

A buyer might be miffed that you're trying to flog your 2nd hand carpets/curtains to them. I'd leave them for free.

Carpets certainly, as they're rarely much good in a new place.

So long as they're not like the carpets we inherited here, which almost walked out on their own! :rotfl:

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I am very sorry regarding the signature error
Thanks for removing it

Matt1977

Lightbulbs! Always handy to be able to switch a light on when it gets dark.

I was fairly generous when I sold my flat last year. I left them a freestanding cooker, energy saving lightbulbs and the carpets. I also left post it notes around the place to indicate where the isolator valves and gas taps were as a reference.

When someone moves a house full of furniture out of a property, can anyone find the energy to then take up the carpets? :question: I wouldn't bother! The carpets I left in my flat were OK but needed cleaning but it was up to the new owner whether to clean or replace them.

Mayflower10cat

Maybe we've been overly generous in the past, but we've left carpets & all flooring, curtains/blinds, light fittings.... We sold our first home to another 1st time buyer and he was delighted when we asked if he'd like the 3 yr old very basic electric cooker, fridge/freezer and washing machine to be left for him. They can't have been worth more than £100 all together but it made a huge difference to how fast we sold. Our second home had fully fitted appliances (or it was supposed to!!!!) but we didn't clarify that the vendor was leaving them and he took them with him. He also tried to remove the feature gas fire by himself with a hacksaw...! Didn't exactly endear him to us.

Just another point - the curtains I've left behind have occasionally been second hand/charity shop bargains I've cleaned & altered. Plain as possible.

Salz

HappyMJ wrote: »

You don't need to leave anything. Anything that is permanently fitted and can't be removed without a screwdriver is usually expected to be left. i.e the built-in oven, the doors and the bathroom suite. If I leave I'll be taking the laminate flooring but leaving the carpet. I'll leave the curtains and light fittings as well. I won't be charging the buyer for anything though I'll just leave it for free.

Sorry, but to me this is wrong - you would lift up a floor:eek: Thank you for posting this, it gives me something to look out for if I ever buy a house as I certainly would not buy one where the vendor is removing the flooring. It would make me wonder what else they were taking.
Also it used to be law that you had to leave a light in each room, even if it was a simple rose and bulb. Has that changed?

DVardysShadow

Salz wrote: »

... Also it used to be law that you had to leave a light in each room, even if it was a simple rose and bulb. Has that changed?

It has never been the law AFAIK. It is just the default position on the fixtures and fittings declaration. You can strike it out, if you insist.

Davesnave

147718 wrote: »

I am very sorry regarding the signature error
Thanks for removing it

Is this a reference to my signature? That's just a gentle poke at the mods on this forum, who've removed signatures from on-line friends, one of them after a couple of years use.

It's no more than that. I'm not referring to you and you've made no mistakes.:) That signature stays on all of my posts, till I change it.....or it gets removed :eek: