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New to the House Buying, Selling & Renting board? Start here
✅ This board is for... * Questions about buying or selling a home * Questions about renting a home * Questions about being a landlord 🚫 This board is not for.. * Debating the state of the economy * Debating house prices in general * Political debates Note: In order to help keep the Forum a useful, safe and friendly place…
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Tenancies in Eng/Wales: Guides for landlords and tenants
post 1 This thread is intended to provide information to both landlords and tenants relating to Assured Shorthold Tenancies (ASTs) in England and Wales. Updated April 2020 to include the Coronavirus Act 2020 and July 2020 to include the Electrical Safety Standards Regulations 2020. Topics covered: Post 2: Repairing…
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Land Registry question - unregistered property
Hello We are in the process of purchasing a house that was built in the 60s and only had one owner. The property has never been registered to the land registry and therefore we would be taking the risk of registering it for the first time. We don't quite understand what these risks are and they haven't properly been…
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Move fence with adverse possession?
I bought my house on 2020 with Adverse Possession Insurance for land that’s been used and cared for since 1999. The house is a corner plot and the land isn’t used by anyone because it’s literally next to the road without and pavement. There’s no other property facing my house, just a pavement on the opposite side of the…
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Where can I park on these title deeds?? Please help
I live in a small cul-de-sac maintained by a management company. The area shown on my deeds is my property boundary. The area in yellow is a shared access area. I have been parking a vehicle in the yellow area against the fence but within my boundary (shown in other picture) only on odd occasions when parking has been…
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New "Have a Look at This" thread
The other one has disappeared and any posts I have made are not listed in either my posts or thanks. This thread is for things like: . Spotting pets in properties . Anything awful - decor, extensions etc . Quirky properties . Timewarp properties . Properties in serious repair and anything which is different and of interest…
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Rent increase due to hyper-inflation
Hi I'm a tenant atm in a flat that has damp issues, water leaking on rare the occasion too - the background is: I got environmental health involved a couple of years back, who did put pressure on the landlord to fix the issue. They re-pointed the outside and put another layer of felt on the roof. Nothing has worked and the…
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General tips for improving a house's saleability (or even value)
Hello. I have very limited experience of moving house and would be really grateful for any advice on what can make or break a sale (and perhaps anything worth doing to improve a house's value). I am looking to try and be in a new property within the next 18 months and any personal pointers would be appreciated. One example…
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Buy to let mortgage - CGT?
Apologies if this is a stupid question, I have never come across CGT and now a bit worried - can it apply if you sell a second home which has BTL mortgage, even though that home was never let (it basically stood empty for couple of years)?
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We didn't know our new house had tenants.
We viewed a house several times before buying-although obviously lived in ,we never saw the people who lived there.Exchanged contracts,received keys and arrived at house moving in day to find it still full of furniture.Long story short,unknown to us,the house was tenanted and the tenants refuse to move.We had to put our…
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Solicitor held my money for 20 years should I get interest on top of the capital amount
My solicitors who acted in conveyance for me in a sale of my property just contacted me. They found they had accidentally withheld a significant amount of money on my file/account - unbeknown to me. They rang me to ask for my details to pay me the amount. After confirming it was the solicitors and not a scam they took my…
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Question about buying a flat
Mum is buying a retirement flat. The vendors removed the free standing fridge freezer after we put offer in plus the other furniture. However where the FF was is a big hole in the kitchen flooring where it's either damaged when they were removing it or it was covering up the existing damage. Are we able to question this.…
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Burglar alarm and section 11
Hello all, this is my first post :) im coming for some advice as we’re not having a great time with out LA and LL. our burglar alarm went off last Sunday from around 6:50am and then sporadically in the day, to often in the evening. We have a newborn and a 2 yr old, so this needed sorting asap. As the LA was closed, I…
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Tenants Rights
Hi Can any one advise on a rental issue I currently have. A house I have rented for 15 years with the same tenant have been given a section 21 (I’m selling) There is a glass lean to side of the property which has been confirmed as unsafe. I want to remove so I’m not liable for anything, the tenant says this should be…
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Housing advice
Living with grandma and she has just died. I have lived there since baby born the problem is now my dad and his sister own the house and now my auntie want me out and to sell I can’t afford to buy. She lets herself in whenever she wants and made it clear I have no rights she is so nasty. My dad said change the locks he…
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Why would someone accept an offer when another viewing was booked?
I got a call today from an estate agent I was due to view a house through on Monday. They called to cancel the viewing because the vendor had accepted an offer. I’m a first time buyer who doesn’t need a mortgage and the estate agent knew that. So my question is, why would the vendor accept the offer on the table and cancel…
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Charge on property from 2006.
My parents are downsizing and buying a small house. The property was last sold to a developer in 2022 flipped and put back on the market in 2023. A few people have made offers but have pulled out for various reasons. Whilst googling the address I found the property belonged to a company that went bankrupt in 2005 and…
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Build to rent vs build to sell planning
Do build to sell developments have the same planning permission as build to rent. There’s a developer in my area who builds a lot of built to rent apartments and has recently started building another in the area which I am quite interested in. In response to a local resident who commented on the planning that this builder…
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Negotiating price after survey
Hello, New to the forum and would appreciate feedback on this. My wife and I are in a completed chain and agreed a price of 375000 for a house with off road parking in a very busy area close to the city centre. The estate agents and vendor said, and I have in wrting, that the whole driveway belonged to the house. After…
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Buying share of parents house
My parents who are in their late 70's have a property worth around £400k with no mortgage. Until recently they have been living off a combination of savings and pensions but their savings have now run out so face the dilemma of either cutting back outgoings drastically or unlocking some of the equity in their home. I am…
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Lack of build over indemnity insurance
We are selling our house and have a garage (built in the 1970s when the house was built) that is built over a sewer. There is a manhole in the garage where the water company can access the sewer. The buyers solicitors have insisted we get a lack of build over indemnity insurance in place. We have been quoted £450 to get…
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Neighbour extension over the boundary
We have lived in our house for 24 years. Our driveway has a border which is against the neighbours fence New neighbours moved in this year and have started build an extension. The have romoved the fence and are digging a foundation that is going onto our land. We have asked them to stop but they have continued and the…