Refusing to sell

baloo

Just some general advice please....
My ex husband and I are going through a divorce, amicable up until now!
After some swapping and changing, he is back in the former marital home with our two teens and I am living in rented accomodation.
We have had three valuations on the property (jointly owned). Two valuations are the same and one is a wild 80k higher! My ex is refusing to accept anything lower than a top valuation to put the house on the market at and has also stated that he will not accept a penny under this asking price.
I feel that he is being totally unreasonable. Where do I stand from a legal perspective regarding forcing a sale?
He is not is a position to buy me out.
Thank you in advance for any helpful advice.

sacha28

You may be better off posting this on the Houses, Buying, Selling and Renting forum x

baloo

Thanks - I'll try that!

AnnieO1234

80k on a house valued at 750k is a lot less than a house valued at 200k. How much equity is in the property?

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peachyprice

As he has the children living with him you would stand little chance of a court forcing him to sell until the youngest child is at least 18.

LandyAndy

peachyprice wrote: »

As he has the children living with him you would stand little chance of a court forcing him to sell until the youngest child is at least 18.

This ^^^


If the OP's husband was in her shoes and he came here asking for advice on forcing her out he would get very short shrift.

baloo

OK - thank you. The valuations on the property were two at 170K and one at 250k.
Children are 16 and 17.
For the record, my husband left me for someone esle and moved out first. He is no longer with her, but I have moved in with a new partner found some months after the split.
Mortgage is joint. But he pays the morgage whilst i pay all other bills (utilities, council tax etc.)

FBaby

On the basis they he is with someone else assuming he is earning an income that allows him to pay the mortgage and taking into account the age of the children you might have a case however this would mean taking him to court and spending more on it then what you might get in the equity. Maybe your could agree to yet a 4th valuation?

Seanymph

Go see a solicitor.

baloo

Thanks all - yes, general consensus is to bite the bullet and see a solicitor. Which is something that i will arrange this week. I was hoping to have kept this amicable, but sadly it seems to be degenerating.
Rightly or wrongly I always feel that the only ones to make anything out of this is the solictors.

peachyprice

FBaby wrote: »

On the basis they he is with someone else assuming he is earning an income that allows him to pay the mortgage and taking into account the age of the children you might have a case however this would mean taking him to court and spending more on it then what you might get in the equity. Maybe your could agree to yet a 4th valuation?

He isn't with someone else.

baloo wrote: »

For the record, my husband left me for someone esle and moved out first. He is no longer with her,

She doesn't stand a chance as long as the children are there with him, neither would any father in the same circumstances. The why's and wherefore's of how the marriage broke down are irrelevant, it is your children's home, no court in the land is going to turf them out.

OP are you paying maintenance for your children?