Owning your own home

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/146065079?utm_campaign=property-details&utm_content=buying&utm_medium=sharing&utm_source=copytoclipboard#/media?channel=RES_BUY&id=video0

“Stunning Bespoke Home”

‘Home Report Value: £800,000’

listing price 695k

That’s a very strange thing to try and claim when you’re selling it for less

Looks like a slightly bland rehab/residential place with gates so you can’t escape

Doesn’t it work differently in Scotland? IE the price on the listing is ~80%? ~75? Of what it’s worth / what they’re expecting

Yeah, in Edinburgh you would probably expect 10-14% over the home report value. So it would roughly be:

Rightmove Price = 500K
Home Report = £550K
Sale Price = £600K

And £695k x 115% = £800k I think

I hope you all watched the video intro 😂

😱looks like he pissed in the pool …
Good dive i thought

Some people down the road had astro-turf installed in their front garden today. When is the craze going to end? Does anyone think it looks good, or is it just easier?

is it just easier

Yes. I seem to be sowing grass seed three times a year to try and actually get some grass on my lawn.

Look like the leasehold reform is not coming after all. Can you imagine this government
actually achieving anything?

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/no-10-scuppers-gove-plan-to-reduce-ground-rents-to-zero-hc0f635sr

Recommended home building insurance? Just got renewal letter and going up from £26 to £37 which seems like a fairly big jump. Although it's still less than many other bills.

Relatedly, should one inform insurers when doing work on the house? If so when? And do they take a dim view of DIY? (Thinking of underfloor insulation for eg.)

I think the t&c will depend on the insurer. Structural changes for sure. Insulation I think no unless it's bonded to the house.

As long as the other proposals stay then I’ll take that but that’s for my personal situation as I potentially save £8-12k in marriage value.
Shame the election is not happening in May as that would likely have helped things.
Next reading in the lords is tomorrow the 27th so will see what comes out of that.

I need a general handyperson in SE London who is capable of tidying up stuff (putting some lights in a cupboard, putting shelves in cupboard, just property maintenance stuff really).

https://www.wowhaus.co.uk/2023/09/12/1960s-midcentury-modern-house-in-loughton-essex/

This has popped back up for sale and a little bit in love...

do it

amazing house

I like the warehouse conversion in hove that neighbours a travis perkins
https://www.themodernhouse.com/sales-list/baltic-wharf/

Id love to live in something like that, but fuckin hell the heating bills.

I used a guy called Steven from here years back, he was a top guy

https://www.southwarkhandyman.co.uk/services

Looking on Streetview that appears to be within Travis Perkins premises, rather than being its neighbour. Nice. But I'm unconvinced by the location.

The audacity to call that 'Hove'.

C'mon. There's only three train stations between that and Hove Station.

viewing it on Tuesday