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Martin Lewis Blog: 'House offer accepted, now they want £20,000 more! What should I do?'
A passer-by stopped Martin in the street recently to ask his opinion on her house buying dilemma. You can check out his view in a video he posted: Martin Lewis: 'House offer accepted, now they want £20,000 more! What should I do?' What would you do? Stand your ground? Walk away? Pay the extra? Negotiate? Tell us your…
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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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Lease extension on share of freehold - Struggling to find solicitor
I own a share of the freehold for my Flat. There are three other freeholder within the management company. We all own an equal share and have decided amongst ourselves to collectively extend all of the leases of our flats to 999 for a nill premium. As a result, we won’t pay an excess and the paperwork should be relatively…
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Recommendations for Unoccupied Property policy, please?
Hi. Anyone taken out such a policy? Any recommendations. I found Adrian Flux came up as recommended, and recall them from my classic car days... But the person who needs this reports the form is pretty involved - "Height above water course" and stuff like that. Is that typical? Any straightforward ones? Ta. Oops - asked…
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Possible tax on (briefly) owing two homes
Hi, My wife and I are keen to move house quickly. We’ve found one we like and we can just about afford to buy it before we sell our current one. But we’ve been warned about potential tax implications. Our current house is in my wife’s name. The new one would be in my name. Would that help us avoid the relevant tax? If I…
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Verbal Offer agreed but changed at the last minute, what are my rights.
Good Morning, We were in the process of negotiating for the purchase of a new house. We were going to use the House builders part-exchange scheme. They offered us £290K for our house initially. We turned this down and they came back with a £295k offer. Again, we turned this down. Then they called and said that they could…
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Tenant refusing to pay rent
Dear all, I have a tenant living with partner and her son in my terraced house. They have been there for about 6 years. We now need to sell the house and we have send them all the right documentation to this regard, by post and email and they are not happy so they have not paid this month rent and they will probably not…
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Leasehold residential tenant subject to asset protection train track boundary
Looking for specialist advice relating to asset protection orders on leasehold residential property. Very close proximity to overhead traintrack lines busy lines and freight train activity. Tenant of almost 10 years. Restrictions on title. Devaluation Extremely close brick to boundary fence 3 meters Unregistered land…
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Leasehold flat, cost of replacement communal door seems excessive
I’d love to get some opinions. I’m in Kent, south east England, I know everything is expensive here. I own a 2 bed flat, ex council now owned by housing authority who have a habit of putting rather unsavoury characters in our building, and therefore, our front and back security doors get damaged frequently. I’ve received a…
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Miscalculated rent arrears by housing association - how to escalate
Hi, I have been renting a flat in London under the Intermediate Market Rent (IMR) scheme since July 2023. I have an AST tenancy agreement which states that "the rent will increase in line with our policy on intermediate rents being an increase on 1 April each year by CPI (Consumer Price Index) plus 1% based on the figures…
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Parking outside own home in a 6 house cul-de-sac......?
Hello, FAO: MODS If this is in the wrong place, please move it. Background information - we have moved into my girlfriends childhood home that her mum lived in until she died 2 years ago. It is a small cul-de-sac with 6 houses on it in a L shape (see Picture 1). They were Council Houses, all 3 bedroom semi's. Number 1&2…
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HomeLet Referencing
Does anyone have any experience of tenant referencing with HomeLet? I’ve just viewed a new property and the agents use them for the checks. I have poor credit and a few bank loans but can afford the rent on the new property. From looking online I can see that HomeLet do ‘forensic affordability’ checks not just a soft…
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Help needed please
Hello, I have very difficult issue and cannot find help, my wife bought a home in 1971 but she was on a low income so to get the mortage her freind put his name to the application, the mortgage went though, her friend did not pay any payments as he only put his name to it so my wife could get the house,He has never lived…
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Buy to let mortgage with main house protection.
hi All I have my home nearly paid off (15 percent left) and consider taking second mortgage to finanse much cheaper buy to let property. I have to be 100 percent sure about potential worst case scenario if things go wrong with the buy to let property and it has negative equity can i be chased by the bank on my main…
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Leasehold: Duty of Landlord to Keep Records? Leaseholder Access to Records?
I have a leasehold flat. The freeholder/landlord is also the management company. They have issued a Section 20 for work that I suspect is only necessary because work on a previous Section 20 was done incorrectly and signed off at the time without due care by the management company. Do I have the right to reqest/demand the…
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Rental tax relief
I am in the process of buying another house. My current property, in which I live, is going to be rented out, but I need to do some work for rental preparation. For example, I advertised it for rent on open rent 1st May, so I started some work on 2nd May. Can I claim tax relief for rental preparation?
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Lease extensions - marriage value abolishment
When will Marriage value be abolished when renewing a lease and what is likely to be put in place instead ? Will it be cheaper then to renew a lease? open
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Solicitor did not send application to Land Registry
In February 2022, I purchased a new build property, but I've recently learned that the conveyancer didn't submit the transfer application to the Land Registry. The following year, in April 2023, they emailed to say registration hadn't been completed because they had requested an electronic signature, which wasn't…
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AML checks by estate agents
I have come across a couple of estate agents who insist on doing the full AML checks for purchases and sales (that is on both the buyers and the sellers), where you not only have to show proof of funds but also proof of how you got them. This is generally done at the legal stage by solicitors, so I feel they are over…
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Can I sue the previous owner?
Hi. I bought a house, just over a year ago that has a large garden. I’ve been doing some maintenance in the garden and have discovered that the previous owner has buried a large number of items in the land. So far I’ve found a fridge/freezer, about 12 used tyres, rubber bases that you put heras fencing into and some car…
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Repay mortgage now or wait until sell
Following a bereavement I’m now in the position to pay off my mortgage. I would like to do it now but wish to put the house on the market in a month or two. Should I payoff now or wait until it sells? To add I may have to rent a place next.
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Mortgage declined after acceptance
Hi guys, Mortgage had been accepted subject to work being carried out before they would lend due to structual issues - so that mortgage is pending. We decided today to pull out and our broker ran another AIP with them again for an additional 50k but it came back with ‘declined’ and the reason being ‘credit score?’ Broker…
