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We found the house we r buying is ex-council just a week before exchange. What to do?

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  • DUTR
    DUTR Posts: 12,958 Forumite
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    antilles wrote: »
    OP, just out of interest, which website did you use to tell that there were lots of council houses in the area? I'm currently selling my house and am looking to do similar research.

    By the way my Mum lives in an ex-council house, she's been there over 20 years now, neighbours have been there even longer, all bought theirs from the council. Same for my grandparents, ex-council, nice quiet area. So as people have said it doesn't necessarily follow that ex-council means a bad area, you can get bad neighbours anywhere.

    Street check will give you a whole host of information about a post code.
  • antilles
    antilles Posts: 365 Forumite
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    DUTR wrote: »
    Street check will give you a whole host of information about a post code.

    Thank you! What a great site, wish I'd known about this earlier. Cheers :)
  • marksoton
    marksoton Posts: 17,516 Forumite
    Bottom line is you either wish to purchase or you don't.

    But going to the vendor and trying to reduce the sale price because it's ex council and has council properties in the vicinity is not on. The time for that would have been at offer stage.
  • DUTR
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    antilles wrote: »
    Thank you! What a great site, wish I'd known about this earlier. Cheers :)

    Glad you like it, good nosy site, I'm still curious as to which B postcode the OP is considering.
  • kinger101
    kinger101 Posts: 6,788 Forumite
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    DUTR wrote: »
    Glad you like it, good nosy site, I'm still curious as to which B postcode the OP is considering.

    It's B18 4NE
    "Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance" - Confucius
  • DUTR
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    kinger101 wrote: »
    It's B18 4NE

    heh heh I'm not even going to look, as soon as I saw B18 I'm guessing white Dee and co?
    That said those type of houses in B73 are asking around £200k
  • cavework
    cavework Posts: 1,992 Forumite
    alchemist.1 wrote: »
    I'm guessing somewhere like Northfield

    Not even close...:rotfl:
  • LittleMax
    LittleMax Posts: 1,408 Forumite
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    edited 27 September 2015 at 4:46PM
    alchemist.1 wrote: »
    I'm guessing somewhere like Northfield
    cavework wrote: »
    Not even close...:rotfl:

    How do you know? OP hasn't been back and told us.
  • cavework
    cavework Posts: 1,992 Forumite
    Because if it was Northfield OP would not have a problem..
  • alchemist.1
    alchemist.1 Posts: 860 Forumite
    cavework wrote: »
    Because if it was Northfield OP would not have a problem..

    And how do you know he has a problem? He is more worried about it being an ex council house.

    It's all relative whether he would have a problem or not. If you grown up in Winson Green then most places arent going to be a problem.
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