Owning your own home

Where my wife's Dead lives they have hurricanes and flooding.

Terrible typo ...

I think the reaction to the cladding & ground rent scandals suggests that will not be the case

You are more likely to see compensation for housebuulders whose land banks have become inland seas ;-)

How long will it be before having a house underpinned is seen as a good and sensible upgrade vs. you should avoid this property?

It won't, ever.

You can only ever be wrong on this!

Anyone in the process of home-buying/selling right now and trying to get things completed before the end of the stamp duty holiday? I'm hearing from solicitors that completion dates actually need to be set as 15th June in order to allow for a standard grace period. Anyone else (any solicitors on here) encountering this?

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Its total bullshit - we looked into getting our bay underpinned and our insurance company said doing that would mean the same as if we were underpinning the whole house.

Now if I was looking at a house and it had been underpinned properly say 10 years previously and all documented, I would have peace of mind and wouldn't be worried. But seemingly a lot of buyers run a mile.

I think the reaction to the cladding & ground rent scandals suggests that will not be the case

Middle class Tory voters own freeholds and don't live in cladded tower buildings (well, the richer ones may have a pied a terre somewhere, but unlikely to be in anything new that has cladding) so neither of those will be a problem for them.

Aspirational Tories might though, but they're fickle anyway.

Aspirational Tories might though, but they're fickle anyway.

Red Wallers?

Middle class Tory voters own freeholds and don't live in cladded tower buildings

Landlords and owner occupiers who buy £500k flats aren’t middle class? They aren’t working class throwing around that kind of money...

Middle class Tory voters own freeholds

Wot? Really? Source pls

+the ground rent thing affects the archetype alarm clock Britain Middle England Barratt execubox dwellers that the Tories cream their pants over.

They're not the type of Tory voters that the Tory party likes to bail out - there's too many of them for one thing.

I expect the cladding problem to be solved (eventually) by bailouts that go to the same set of building firms that created the problem in the first place. None of the bailout money will ever see individuals except for large bonuses for directors/owners of these large building companies.

I think many senior members of the Tory party are, right now, trying to work out how to setup building companies to get contracts to remove/replace cladding.

I think people are taking my wide sweeping generalisations a bit too seriously.

This is a serious thread for serious people

And Amey

At this point what's one more piece of nepotism, give your mate a £billion contract, I don't care as long as it fixes the cladding issue.

And Amey

Amen

I was making the same point as @Greenbank .. the min requirement is a bespoke wooden door with stain glass and wisteria out front.

I just can’t imagine the Tories giving a fuck about someone on a new build estate built on a flood plain having to get their house underpinned.

Are new build houses such a problem? Something built in the last few decades is likely to have some foundations that are more than three layers of brick resting on clay like a typical Victorian terrace.

min requirement is a bespoke wooden door with stain glass and wisteria out front.

Hold my beer

You rang?

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Cladding shiz:
https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/residents-stuck-unsellable-flats-months-after-grenfell-style-cladding-removed/

Fuck knows.
My solicitor doesn't appear to be able to get in contact with my buyers solicitor (same bloody firm) to get my answer about not having a buildover agreement for a mid 90s conservatory. So talk of completion dates are optimistic.

Tho I'd imagine as completion is the point at which the contract is fulfilled then the end date really is the end of june

This person who's been featured in a few articles has been told she'll have to move out of her flat for over a year while the remediation work takes place
https://twitter.com/city_fitty/status/1394251341996904449