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Q. As a Landlord of three investment properties I have never bothered with Landlords insurance as all my properties are leasehold with buildings insurance included in the service charge so I guess I feel if there was an issue with a leak from upstairs I am pretty much covered. However my wife thinks I should…
Q. I have just completed on a house and am devastated to find that the Vendor has taken all the white goods from the kitchen. When I was viewing the Agent said these would all be included in the sale?! Where do I stand, is there anything I can actually do now that I have…
So as we hit the halfway mark of this landmark year how is the property market fairing so far? I’m delighted to report that sales are doing very well indeed; prices are now 100% back to their glorious all time high of 2007 and in some cases even exceeding those heady prices. Consumer confidence is…
Q. I have recently been lucky enough to have been left a very large inheritance and am seriously considering investing in property as putting it in the bank whilst the country is still in recession seems a futile idea. I’m thinking of buying a penthouse with the money – do you think this is the…
Q. I am a tenant that has just vacated a property that I have been renting for the last year. I have kept everything in pristine condition and am really shocked that despite my check out report only reporting minor things like a missing light bulb and a couple of broken glasses, the Landlord is…
Q. I am close to exchange of contracts on my first property and have had a nasty shock from my solicitor, the service charge is actually £700.00 more per annum than I was originally told it would be at the onset of the purchase. Apparently each owner contributes this extra £700.00 towards the sinking fund?!…
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Q. We have just bought our dream house and thinking about knocking the wall down between the kitchen and the reception to open it all up and make it open plan. Our only consideration is do you think there are any downsides to this type of refurbishment? Will it make it harder or easier to…
Q. I have been thinking about buying a property for ages now but it always comes down to the same thing – lack of funds. However a very good friend of mine is in exactly the same predicament and we have recently come to the conclusion that it might be an idea to buy ‘together’.…
Q. I completed on my brand new house six months ago and I am devastated to find out that my next door neighbours have decided to build a two story extension onto their period house. The extension is going to extend right up to their boundary wall, right next to my existing fence. A colleague…
