House advertised but c2 dwelling

pinklady21

Do you mean you are selling your existing home to an investor?
Sorry I don't follow why that would be likely to fall through because of checks you are doing on the house you are going to buy.
Is it because the investor is pressing for a short date of entry on the house you are selling?
If there is a delay between your sale of your current property, and your new purchase, you could move to temporary accommodation in the meantime.

wah007

davidmcn wrote: »

So you should probably buy something more straightforward.

Or live somewhere else while you sort this place out.

We only came to know about the class change after we instructed solicitors and survey. The EA advertised the house as a "detached family home".

If we knew this we wouldn't offer on it.

wah007

pinklady21 wrote: »

Do you mean you are selling your existing home to an investor?
Sorry I don't follow why that would be likely to fall through because of checks you are doing on the house you are going to buy.
Is it because the investor is pressing for a short date of entry on the house you are selling?
If there is a delay between your sale of your current property, and your new purchase, you could move to temporary accommodation in the meantime.

Yes, we're selling our existing home to an investor.

The investor wants a short date entry so that he can move in and start renovating. Renting is not an option as I have elderly parents and it will be a big inconvenience for us to move twice.

Slinky

wah007 wrote: »

P.S. I've checked the tax band of the property on this website...

https://www.gov.uk/council-tax-bands

and there's no "improvement indicator" icon next to it. Does this mean that the tax band won't change if we buy it?

For some unknown reason there's none on ours either, and we've extended both sides. We've had building regs sign off 10 years ago. I can't imagine when we sell that the Council Tax won't be increased.

davidmcn

wah007 wrote: »

We only came to know about the class change after we instructed solicitors and survey. The EA advertised the house as a "detached family home".

If we knew this we wouldn't offer on it.

Yes, I think you've told us all that already. It doesn't affect my advice.

lincroft1710

wah007 wrote: »

P.S. I've checked the tax band of the property on this website...

https://www.gov.uk/council-tax-bands

and there's no "improvement indicator" icon next to it. Does this mean that the tax band won't change if we buy it?

Not necessarily. If the person selling has extended the property then it could increase, sometimes the notification process goes awry.

trainy

We have recently had our offer accepted on a building that is currently being used as a care home C2. The building was previously a house so the planning experts have advised us that it should be an easy process to move it back to a C3. Therefore we are currently going through the change of use process before the valuers go in. We were initially told that the valuers would be happy to value it once the second kitchen had been removed and the change of use has been granted. We are now being told they cannot value it to the residents are no longer there.

So my question is once you have gone through the change of use process to make a C2 a C3, when does it actually become a C3?