seperated from partner,advice please.

999gsi

Just a quick update.My partner refuses to communicate with me.out of the blue i got a text to say she has put the house on the market,lo and behold its on rightmove(50k more than we paid for it). i wasnt consulted re estate agents etc. is it legal to put a house up for sale without my consent. thanks phil.

Blackpool_Saver

I would get a solicitor

Hovel_lady

999gsi wrote: »

Just a quick update.My partner refuses to communicate with me.out of the blue i got a text to say she has put the house on the market,lo and behold its on rightmove(50k more than we paid for it). i wasnt consulted re estate agents etc. is it legal to put a house up for sale without my consent. thanks phil.

She can put it up for sale but as you are the deeds/mortgage she can't sell it without your consent so little point putting it up for sale :think:

Mojisola

999gsi wrote: »

Just a quick update.My partner refuses to communicate with me.out of the blue i got a text to say she has put the house on the market,lo and behold its on rightmove(50k more than we paid for it). i wasnt consulted re estate agents etc. is it legal to put a house up for sale without my consent. thanks phil.

Contact the EA and make sure they understand that you are also an owner. It's possible that she's told them it's in her name.

rpc

999gsi wrote: »

Just a quick update.My partner refuses to communicate with me.out of the blue i got a text to say she has put the house on the market,lo and behold its on rightmove(50k more than we paid for it). i wasnt consulted re estate agents etc. is it legal to put a house up for sale without my consent. thanks phil.

This will, at least, get you your money (if there is any equity in it).

How did you own the house - joint tenants or tenants in common?

As mojisola said, make sure the EA knows you are a co-owner. Your ex can do what she wants, but ownership of the house cannot be transferred without your signature on the dotted line.

Steel_2

Agree with others.

Ring the EA and tell them you are on the deeds and no sale will go through - and therefore no fee for them - without your agreement and signature. Make sure they have your new address and that all correspondance also comes to you.

You need to get a solicitor now and either find out from the EA who her solicitor is and pass it on to your own or get your solicitor on the case to do that.

I sincerely hope she wasn't thinking she might fake your signature to get it to go through and have all the money transferred into her account?

I don't recall hubby and I ever having to go anywhere together to officially sign documents when we sold our house - we signed everything at home and just had to have witnesses.

Frogletina

I bought an apartment from a woman who said she was the sole owner. My purchase was delayed when the solicitors found out that her ex husband's name was still on the deeds. He was in Sweden and paperwork had to be sent there which delayed the completion of it. Fortunately he agreed to the sale and it went through ok.

I know another man though who refuses to sign for the sale of a joint property which his ex wife still lives in. She is desperate to sell but cannot get him to sign anything. He has not contributed for over 10 years, no children involved but has managed to get a new mortgage with his second wife. I have no idea how that will ever get resolved.

BitterAndTwisted

As advised: make your presence known to the estate-agent, then get yourself a solicitor to represent you. Make it known IN WRITING to your ex that discussions need to take place in order to agree what the share of any equity will be.

As there was no formal and legal agreement when your bought together it will only be your own morals which dictate whether you will disregard the deposit she put into the purchase. One could take the view that you should receive less because you didn't contribute to the deposit and you haven't paid anything towards the mortgage for however long it may have been. I suspect all this could prove to be more of a sticking-point than reaching an agreement about what a fair offer for the property might be.

With good-will on both sides it might be fairly simple.

DVardysShadow

Person_one wrote: »

... As you are no longer contributing, add up the cost of what you would have been paying (half of each monthly payment I presume) and knock that off the final sum she owes you to buy you out.

.... But as you have not been occupying the property but she has, and you have had to rent, set half of a fair rent against half of the mortgage before knocking anything off the final sum she owes you to buy you out.

Johnhowell

All EAs involved in the sale of our place wanted both parties present and had to sign contract before they preceded with sales details.

Good luck,
John