Owning your own home

Your lack of input recently has been really stressing me.

And congrats @Fox ! You'll have to come to our street party. Next up adding you to my "House bore" and "E17" Whatsapps...

Considering purchase my first home, via auction, any advise?

Been looking since summer days, for a small starter flat/home in London.
Seem to be the time now to act, either negotiation or auction... being a first-timer, very nervous...

Considering purchase my first home, via auction, any advise?

You would be brave to do that

First half day of garden clearance done.
It’s fucking cold today.

I've dealt with a few (Full Flame and Rokas) who do repairs (not sure if they do South though).

Parts were fine with Full Flame (he carries a lot of Vailant parts) but with Rokas once he identified the problem he was having to call round local boiler supply places at 5pm on a Saturday which obviously didn't go well. He showed me what part was required though and I ordered it online.

You moving in adds at least 5% on his house value

Trust me 'Coppermill Village' doesn't need us moving in to raise the prices, it's going cray cray...

Next up adding you to my "House bore" and "E17" Whatsapps...

Bring it on, I'm ready for this next phase of my life. Clapton is far too cool for me now anyway.

Speaking of boilers, there is quite a bit of water coming out of my flue (not huge amounts but enough to be annoying as it leaves a small puddle right next to the back door).

It seems the flue should have been angled up a little when installed but it's obviously too late for that now. Are there any other easy solutions?

It’s fucking cold today.

You're not working hard enough then!

All we are waiting for now is for our vendors' signed contracts reaching their solicitor. These were posted last Thursday but apparently still haven't arrived. Everything is ready to go for exchange ASAP and completion on 16th December. We've even booked the movers as they are all turning into rocking horse shit the closer we get to xmas. Now told that vendors are res-signing and scanning contracts to get something done today.

I'm in E17 but deffo not the cool part :'(

Considering purchase my first home, via auction, any advise?

I'd advise not as a first-time, very nervous buyer. Go through EA, surveyor, solicitor 'normal' process. Auctions aren't all Dion Dublin, mad bargains.

Sorry, you can't be in the "E17" WhatsApp then.

All we are waiting for now is for our vendors' signed contracts reaching their solicitor. These were posted last Thursday but apparently still haven't arrived

Same... I am taking the hard copies to my solicitor in person via fixeh

I am sure the post has arrived they just haven’t bothered to sort through it

Been looking since summer days, for a small starter flat/home in London.

Tbh for this kind of place it's a buyer's market and a good time to be looking - it's not like you're buying a family house. So no need to get involved in an auction unless there's a particular place you really want.

I'd get on with it though because there's no guarantee at all that the stamp duty holiday will be extended.

Should have been done electronically in the first place, madness.

There's a cool part?! :P

gotta be cautious with all that savings, only was thinking about auction 'cause seeing a few lots selling by a housing association and thought it might not be too risky...

going back to rightmove and agents now

Yea, I followed a few online auctions in the past months just to see how they go. Weirdly some property sold even more than the market price (how?!)

right on!
Getting anxious now as the holiday season approaching, wanna get everything sorted before next spring.
thought the price, in general, would go down a bit, has not seen that happening.
EA saying many sellers are overly optimistic.
Anxious.

You would have to (or be sensible to) have a survey before even bidding so very likely to lose the cost of at least one as you get outbid by developers/flippers. I think you'd be very, very lucky to save any significant money / get a bargain below market value that wouldn't have hidden, unexpected costs. Auction rooms are full of people doing it to make money with plenty of experience in buying that way - it's not for the faint-hearted.

Yes, where I live, obvs.

We did ours both hand signed and electronic as they wouldn't only accept the electronic for the "originals". Any delays in this whole 4 month process have been for fucking stupid little things. I'll be glad to see the back of the whole thing.

Currently only really started packing, but I seem to have bought a 6 pack of THE worst packing tape in the world.

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