Owning your own home

Congratulations. Now you just have completion to look forward to.

Congrats! It gets marginally better once you actually get in the place, as long as it's not too fucked.

Given the luck I've had thus far it wouldn't surprise me if one of the solicitors runs off with my mortgage advance never to be seen again.

It's difficult to tell from the plan, but there aren't any easements/rights shown. So the path is on one person's land or the other's.

Fence along the boundary. If that doesn't solve it - because the access path is on the neighbour's land - then gubhi doesn't have much of a leg to stand on anyway.

Anecdotally, our shed is on our upstairs neighbour's land, technically, because it's under the outdoor steps from their roof terrace to their part of the shared garden. That strip of land is shown as blue on the deed plans.

Congrats!

Advice for completion day: given how much of a nightmare the people in your chain have been... make sure the property you're moving into is vacant possession and make it clear to the vendor's agent and both solicitors that's what you expect. I'd hate for anyone else to go through what we did!

@gubhi can you provide a google streetview?

Does this fall within the purview of the party wall act? Did they do any digging?

There’s no cars on the drive atm but there’s a table top against my wall today. They keep removing my “please don’t block the shared access” sign off the door too. So they know they’re blocking it. they don’t care. It’s crazy. They had a wall like I did.

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Congrats! What a relief.

I've drawn where I understand the land boundary is...

I would say you're in your rights to place bollards - or a fence - along that line, from what I can see of you the registry plans.

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It's difficult to tell from the plan, but there aren't any easements/rights shown. So the path is on one person's land or the other's.

It is difficult to tell from the plan. Sometimes the Land Registry colour rights of way. Sometimes they don't. In most shared paths between houses I've come across, each house owns one half of the path and has a right of way over the other half. Impossible to say from the plan whether this is the case here though.

They sound like absolute pricks. So much stress and conflict is caused by who owns what when one party respects boundaries and the other doesn’t...
Multiply your current issue many, many times and you have the same thing playing out in Ukraine (obviously can’t compare but it’s all about people protecting their area and the other people trying to take it off them)
Sorry this comment is of no help but you have every right to be pissed off

Should get a couple of pallets of bricks delivered and put them between the red line and the wall.

Then sit back and wait for it to kick off

The setup is different to what I imagined, having now seen the photo. No actual path is demarcated. Would be interesting to know if I have the boundary line in the right place.

thank you all! i will do my research based on the replies and see what i can do for the future. (not doing the pink w the grit tho hahaha)

demarcate the boundary with security paste

In the meantime it would be a shame if in the process of taking your bins out bin juice were to leak all over their car.

And then paint it with bright pink gloss paint with grit thrown into it so it really sticks in there

fucking lol

Take up the bricks on your land, replace with frozen sausages laid out in the same pattern

What a nightmare! Haven't the prospective buyers read the lease? I mean it's a legal document so if it says in there they wouldn't be liable...

I take it the current managing agents are moving on?

Yup, come May 22 this won't be an issue anymore. I think with the benefit of hindsight and a cost of living crisis looming it might not have been a great time to move anyway, plus the sun is shining and my current flat is lovely in the summer - things could be worse. Appreciate the vent!

Absolutely this.

Has anyone ever bought a listed property? A nice place has come up, but is grade 2 listed and before I get too far into looking into it thought I'd check to see if it's something best to avoid.

Depends how much you want to modify it, as basically you have to get sign off on anything you modify structurally as far as I understand. (My friends owned 2/3 of a former terrace of grade 2 listed cottages, then bought the final one and knocked them through into one - they had to leave a staircase in, even though it was blanked off at top and bottom).

^^Came close to buying property in Dulwich Estates-run area a few times which is similar to listed properties.
Looked into it a fair bit and it did limit what we wanted to do eg: no first floor extensions only ground floor to a max of 4m or so. Also limits on window and door types even to garages. And no loft conversions at all.
There should be guidance on what's permitted. Could also contact the local planning officer for a chat/email.