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Q. I have just completed on my brand new house a month ago and beginning to settle in, but to my dismay have received a planning application from my local council for the house next door! As far as I can understand they are planning to build an extension on both the rear and the…
Q. After careful consideration over who to instruct to sell my house I have just agreed terms with my chosen agent to place my property on the market for sale. Having discussed the way forward with regards to viewing arrangements my agent has asked if I can provide them with a set of keys. Is…
Q. I have been due to exchange on my property for the past two weeks with the only thing holding things up being the searches, they wouldn’t accept a private search so I decided to pay an extra fee for the local authority ones to be sped up to a 72 hour service. Now they…
Q. I viewed a house over the weekend that I have fallen in love with but have just found out today that they never got planning permission for the extension they built at the rear of the house. I am devastated by this news as I really thought I had found the ‘one’. Is there…
Q. I am buying my first property and due to exchange tomorrow so my solicitor advised that I go visit the property to make sure everything is in order before we exchange contracts. However, when I went in to the property to check everything over for the last time I was horrified to find that…
I’m compelled to share a case that I am currently working on this week as a cautionary example to prevent this type of thing happening again to anyone that is naïve when it comes to instructing a letting agent. I was recently approached and asked for advice by a professional woman who had accepted a…
Being a Canary Wharf based Agent for over a decade whenever I sit down to discuss the criteria and wish list of any potential buyer I would be requested in 9 out of 10 searches that the property have a view, not even necessarily a water view but a view of some kind. Buyers that…
Q. I left the country last winter for a year to go and work overseas and rented my apartment out through a company I had never heard of before but never the less seemed competent enough and they found me a tenant straight away. However, I am now due to return to the UK in…
Q. I am looking to buy something within the next couple of months and have been out viewing lots of different properties in my desired location over the last couple of weeks. Ideally I am looking for a high end one bedroom in a great location close to transport and facilities. I have found a…
Q. I have just sold my property to some investment buyers in Malaysia, and everything has been going great so far. They have their mortgage approval from the bank and the legal side is going swimmingly, but I had a call from my agent yesterday saying that because the funds are coming from the bank…
