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  • Slithery
    Slithery Posts: 6,046 Forumite
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    Lyd00 said:
    The council are going to change the green/blue colouring on the deeds to brown. Which I believe means right to park/driveway.
    Only if that's what the key on the title plan says. There is no standard definition of what a particular colour means.
  • Lyd00
    Lyd00 Posts: 97 Forumite
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    Seeing as my accepted offer stands at £154,995 pre finding out it didn't have a driveway, what is a reasonable re-offer? Searches online suggest a driveway can add anyway between 5-10% to the value of the house. Yes the council are changes the deeds to reflect right of parking but it still isn't part of the plot I thought I was buying. But I want to be fair. 
  • user1977
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    edited 17 May 2022 at 9:49AM
    Lyd00 said:
    Seeing as my accepted offer stands at £154,995 pre finding out it didn't have a driveway, what is a reasonable re-offer? Searches online suggest a driveway can add anyway between 5-10% to the value of the house.
    To a property which has no driveway. Whereas in practice, this has already got a driveway (and has rights for vehicular access to off-road parking at the rear), the only quibble appears to be whether you can leave a car parked on the driveway? Which nobody is actually objecting to anyway. So I would have thought any difference in value to be minimal.
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