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Unofficial Shared Driveway - Sell or Extend?

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  • moneyistooshorttomention
    moneyistooshorttomention Posts: 17,940 Forumite
    I think they are similar situations - one house is using access on someone else's property and the situation needs resolving one way or another.
  • robatwork
    robatwork Posts: 7,348 Forumite
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    If the OP would like to pop up a sketch and give approximate ideas of house values then those here who have experience with easements and selling slivers of land can probably give a good guideline on a "reasonable" value to those 2 options.
  • Cakeguts
    Cakeguts Posts: 7,627 Forumite
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    Forget about how much money you would lose on the extension and think about how this would affect your neighbour. If building an extension means that more people could live in your house in the future with more cars do you think your neighbour would want this? If not what do you think they would do?
  • Davesnave
    Davesnave Posts: 34,741 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper Photogenic
    robatwork wrote: »
    If the OP would like to pop up a sketch
    Newbies can't, but they can post a broken link to a picture hosting site, which someone here will then fix.
  • bouicca21
    bouicca21 Posts: 6,767 Forumite
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    OP have you actually checked the deeds of both houses to see if you already have right of access over their land?
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