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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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House Buyers Want to Bring Architects In
I am in the process of selling my empty house. I have had an offer from a buyer & even before a Memorandum Of Sale has been issued the buyers have requested that their architects are allowed access. I find this a bit disconcerting to be honest. Should I wait until Exchange of Contracts before allowing this ?? Any comments…
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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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Taking my landlord to Court
So I have been with my lettings agent for 3 and a half years and safe to say they have become very poor. They have had a lot of issues and in regards to my personal circumstances has led to housing disrepair in the form of Damp & Mould, Inappropriate caretaking of estates, Disrepair of whitegoods. These have been ongoing…
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Moving home tips - anything over and above the usual?
There are plenty of lists of 'what to do' and 'don't forget' when you're moving home. All the usual - take readings and inform energy suppliers - book a good removal company - get plenty of boxes and packing tape - make sure you know where the kettle is - don't forget the teabags etc etc etc. But aside from these 'everyday…
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Should I question the integrity of my estate agent?
I am selling the family home with my ex-partner. He still lives in the property, while I live in a rental property, and we have chosen an estate agent jointly. The house has been on the market for 5 months, and we haven't found a buyer. My ex-husband has now suggested he buys my share of the house. However, the price he…
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What to do about neighbours parking
The people who live two doors down from me whenever they have visitors, the visitors don’t park outside their house they park outside my next door neighbours house. My next door neighbour is an elderly man and because his driveway is narrow he parks his car on the road outside his house so that 1. He can get out of the car…
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Holiday home to permanent residence
I’ve used googled and really am coming to a loose end… I know the CORRECT answer but I’m looking for the BEST answer. My mums partner needs to get out of the house as she has passed away and we (the children) want to sell. He doesn’t have a lot of funds to buy a house. He doesn’t want to rent as it’s a waste of money. We…
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Estate agent fees
My property has been on the market for 17 months with 3 potential sales having fallen through. The estate agent has now taken it off the market saying that it has been on their books for over 12 months and their fee is now due within 7 days or it will be passed to debt collectors. There is no mention of a 12 month period…
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Second property dilemma
Hello all! I am strongly considering purchasing a second home and then renting out my existing home that is currently mortgage free. My idea is to remortgage our current home and use that money to put towards our second home and use our savings to purchase the new house outright. Another option is to just purchase the…
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Major Works Clawback Confusion
Hello All, I'm writing this as I can't find any answers to similar questions online so was wondering if anyone has any experience with a similar issue. I live in a leasehold flat. Major works were carried out based on section 20. My flat's contribution was paid over two years ago (around 6.5k) prior to work starting. The…
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Builder set up scaffolding... then never came to do the work!
It has been over a month, I can't contact him at all, and no idea whose scaffolding it is. Am trying to sell the house and urgently need the wall fixed due to rain. I think if I pay someone else to do it, they probably won't want to risk touching someone else's scaffolding?? What's the fastest way I can get mt urgent…
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Help to take landlord to court for illegal eviction
I am a tenant in England and Wales. My 12-month contract was signed on Oct 2022 & I am currently on rolling. My Landlord has served my S21 notice on Form 6A and asked me to leave on 5th Feb 2023. I got a confirmation from CA that s21 is not valid. However, a few days back while I was not at home, my landlord threw all of…
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Issue with Private Landlord
Hi everyone, I'm not sure if this is the right place for this but I'm after some advice... My MIL (pensioner) privately rents a 3 bedroom house and lives there alone. The landlord has told her that she is not to have visitors stay overnight. Does this sound right to anyone? She isn't one for confrontation with the landlord…
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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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Action against foreign LL for failure re: DPS. Is it worth it? Will it be hard to enforce judgement?
Hi all. I recently purchased a house and got away from renting. Still waiting for deposit which they put in DPS 7 mo late into third (final) tenancy, we should have had it weeks ago and think the LA/EA has gone rogue. This got me thinking - my first two tenancies the deposit remained totally unprotected and it was only…
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Service Maintenance Charges on New Builds
New Builds not stating all the charges relating to service charges and maintenance charges. A number of people very unhappy with these charges. Especially when costs are so high .
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Disclosing nuisance kids when selling
We live on a new build estate. The street we live on is lovely but on the other side is a large green and across from that, houses that were sold to a housing association for social housing. We're thinking of selling as we just can't tolerate the groups of kids hanging around from the social housing. They're not doing…
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Bad survey
I recently viewed a house after the owner sadly died. The people selling the house aren’t living in it and have their own property. The house was in perfect condition or so I thought. I had a survey done on the property and they found that there was a ridge board not fixed properly and advised getting a structural engineer…
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Neighbour attaching gates to my wall
Hi everyone. I was hoping for some general advice. Our new neighbour has purchased metal gates and called earlier to let me know someone was calling out to install them. When I went out to view them I realised that they would be attaching them to our wall. We have been in our home for over 20 years and so far as I can…
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Buying a Freehold House with a unregistered leasehold against it.
Hi! Myself and my husband are currently in the process of buying a house. We currently have a problem with the house we're buying. It was discovered around 9 weeks ago that the house was freehold with an unregistered leasehold against it, indemnity policy's have been put forward but our solicitors have declined as they…