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Quick Sale Springbok Property
Hi! Has anyone come across/used Springbok Properties for a quick sale? My mother went into a nursing home at the start of COVID and is currently paying her care home contribution and mortgage which is financially unsustainable. Unfortunately due to COVID and the remote location of her property (which makes buyers few and…
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Rent Arrears
My dad died on 31/12/23 and i succeeded the tenancy. The housing in Glasgow got me to sign the tenancy agreement on the 12/2/24. They now say I owe £1268. rent from the day after my dad died. I applied for universal credit on the 12/2/24 and they only gave me 1 months housing costs and are refusing anymore. I think this is…
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Transferring personal property in SPV
Hi All, i am after some advice/options please regarding transferring a personal property (an apartment which i recently bought and currently rent out) into an SPV. Please note I am in the 40% tax bracket from my normal job. 1. I understand i would need to pay stamp duty/CGT to transfer the ownership, but any idea on what…
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Neighbours bathroom juts into the house we want to buy
Id really appreciate some advice please 🥺 We have sold our house and saw a semi detached that we liked in our village. Looking at the floorplan however there was a blacked off section downstairs adjoining the shared wall under the stairs that I couldn't fathom out. During the viewing (done by owner) she told me it was next…
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Rent for a year before buying again
Hi - wondered if I could ask what peoples thoughts on my situation are. I've got a 2 bed flat in London , never really settled in it, and now after 5 years here really want to move out of it for various reasons. I want to try living further out of London, and going to a wfh model at work - which i can, 3 days in office 2…
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vehicle crossover
I applied for a dropped kerb/vehicle crossover at my current home on a classified road by a bus stop in South London, where there is a hardstanding that has been in use for parking by up to 5 cars at a time for the last 23 years, and where the council had previously offered to install a vehicle crossing several times but,…
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Seller about to pull out! Stuck due to no fault of our own
Hi all, I am in a bit of a crisis at the moment. had an offer accepted on a property , on the 1st march. Property was on the market for over 6 months Before my offer. To buy this property I am selling mine, I have no mortgage owing so will be using the equity to buy the new property outright. My buyer is ready to exchange…
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Late rent payment calculations
Hi I wondered if someone could help. I went through a divorce and got my house which had to be rented out as I needed to leave town. I have had tenants in since June 2022. Renting at 1500. Rent since then hasn't been increased. On the whole good tenants. I have immediately reaponded to any issues i.e. blocked drains etc on…
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Question about social housing and having a garden
Hello all I posted a few weeks ago about queue positions on the register. We are now at position 1, and the bidding closes today. I know this doesn't mean we will get it, as things may be changed according to needs/priority but what my question is, the GP mentioned in the letter how useful a Garden would be for our child…
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at a standstill any advice???
Dont know if this is the correct section so please feel free to move and I may be a bit sketchy with details as this is for a friend. Brief outline.....They put an offer on a house in 2020, the owner had suffered a stroke and was in a nursing home, no family. everything going through but just before contracts were signed…
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Checking if house is former social housing
Is there a way to check if a certain property was formerly social housing before it became privately owned? I don't know if there is an online database or procedure to check something like that.
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Mortgage with high debts
Hello not an ideal situation but a bit of back story. We moved with 3 children in to a house that needed A LOT of work to make it habitable. In doing the works we have racked up around 65k debt between loans and credit cards. We have a decent wage between us of around £110k per annum so are managing with the debt although…
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Question on whether I should rent out my property
we're thinking rather than selling our property we could rent it out instead, however as I was researching I was reviewing the tax bracket being 40%. I wasn't sure if it was worth it.. The current mortgage is under my wife and I and it's roughly £1000 a month if we were to rent it out we'd be getting £1300 a month. My…
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Staging for viewings or not
About to begin the process to list my 5-year old two bed flat (new build when originally bought) with a local estate agent. No valuations or decision on agent yet, as considering whether to furnish/'stage' the property, as currently all my own stuff has already been moved abroad as I'm emigrating. How important is it to…
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LIQUIDATION
Afternoon All. We live in a Park Home manufactured by a company called Tingdene. We have been having problems for over a year with the outside of our home. Tingdene accepted responsibility and told us that they would replace and repair the damagned walls this year some time. When we chased them on Friday for an update we…
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Selling BTL- claiming land tax back
Hello, I’ve been renovating my first BTL and it has no tenants yet. I thinking of selling it as the Gov is clearly not going to make it work for us. If I did, I’ll be hit with an ERC which I’ll need to calculate in along with other fees, but does my one know if I can claim the land tax back on it?
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Freehold property with Unregistered Leasehold Title
Hello, I’m in the final stages of purchasing (what I thought was) a freehold property, but at the very last moment my solicitor has informed me that there’s an unregistered leasehold title which cannot be removed as the seller and the Land Registry do not hold an original copy of the lease (and the leaseholder is…
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McCarthy Stone Building Issues
Hi, I am currently in the process of a formal complaint with McCarthy Stone over a leak that has already been repaired twice, but is still not fixed. It is over 4 months since being reported to their Buildings Team again, and was raised as a formal complaint over a month ago. Has anyone else had a similar experience of…
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Pulled Offer Post Survey
Hello, I've recently had an offer accepted. The house was pulled from the market and listed as 'Sold STC'. The house is old, over 200 years old. I arranged a RICS level 3 survey of the property and it came back a week later with 8 elements falling into category 3. Most other elements fell within cat 2 and just 4 into cat 1…
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Issues with the survey
Hi, we are in the process of buying a house. We are cash buyers and are buying a house which is empty so this is a very short chain. The seller accepted an offer of 10k below the asking price because of our strong buying position. The house was surveyed on Monday and our surveyor called last night. He is in the process of…