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Selling a jointly owned inherited property

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  • dizzy4
    dizzy4 Posts: 14 Forumite
    I guess that would be too easy wouldn't it, the brother wants to stay on the farm and I don't think he can afford to buy us both out.... so it looks like he is offering to buy the sister out and that leaves me with a third I also wish to sell.... I can only sell on the open market if I have legal documentation stating which bit I own.... methinks...
  • Elinore
    Elinore Posts: 259 Forumite
    You could offer to sell your third to your brother...... for a lower price than your sister? :D
  • dizzy4
    dizzy4 Posts: 14 Forumite
    I would be very loathed to take less than the market value for my share of the farm.
  • dizzy4
    dizzy4 Posts: 14 Forumite
    so where do I stand legally if I want to sell my share of the farm and brother can't afford to buy me out...?
  • NYM
    NYM Posts: 4,066 Forumite
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    How has the property been registered?

    Joint Ownership
  • dizzy4
    dizzy4 Posts: 14 Forumite
    No it hasn't, do you mean with the Land Registry...?
  • marliepanda
    marliepanda Posts: 7,186 Forumite
    dizzy4 wrote: »
    so where do I stand legally if I want to sell my share of the farm and brother can't afford to buy me out...?


    You need to find someone who wants to buy 1/3 of the value of a farm.


    I don't know many people who would want that.
  • dizzy4
    dizzy4 Posts: 14 Forumite
    I don't know why someone wouldn't want to buy a third of a farm. Farms are split up all the time especially after a bereavement.
  • And presumably, they would have to be a cash buyer as I don't think any lender would lend under those circumstances
  • marliepanda
    marliepanda Posts: 7,186 Forumite
    dizzy4 wrote: »
    I don't know why someone wouldn't want to buy a third of a farm. Farms are split up all the time especially after a bereavement.


    But you say yourself it HASN'T been split up.


    Selling off some land, or a barn, no problem..


    Right now you don't have land or a barn, you have 1/3 of the value of a whole farm.
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