Owning your own home

Land Registry lets you search on lots of criteria here https://landregistry.data.gov.uk/app/ppd/ you can just do a street or partial postcode or whatever if you want to see all recent completions.

no surpise there dude. place looks amazing.

damn those numbers though. we had to pass on a place that was just out of reach when we started looking five years ago. but am happy how it worked out

I didn't realise that so that's helpful. Cheers.

Eta I've just tried to get the land reg to give me a date ordered list of completions in one area. I specified a date range and the results are all over the place and seem to be mixed up. Possibly it's me as I'm useless with computers.

Ooof

https://www.reddit.com/r/HousingUK/s/5oRYdfF43Q

One of the plot devices used in the TV series 'Don't Wait Up' if I remember correctly. Happily it all turned out well in the end for the Nigel Havers character. Showing my age there, again.

I'd be very surprised if the purchaser hadn't received a letter from their solicitor stating in very clear and unambiguous terms that they needed to sort out insurance from the date of exchange. I certainly did.

My parents' place is up on Rightmove - they've been there since before I was born and it's surreal to think of them living somewhere else. It's definitely the best thing for them but it's hard to think of someone else living there

Well, the buyers may well just knock it down and build something else!

Pretty certain that's what's going to happen to my mum and dad's place. Shame my parents never did it themselves TBH as now my mum is lumbered with a somewhat decrepit 30s converted bungalow that costs an arm and leg to heat with a massive garden that costs another arm and a leg to look after, but she can't move as she'll not get enough for it to make moving worth it and anything spent improving it is just good money after bad.

Get your mum to move in with you, get her to take a loan out and develop it into a block of residential care flats, then more her back in.

A passive häüs with passive income.

Does anyone have any recos for garden furniture covers. Or any don't buys?

Optimistically bought our new outdoor seating too early and want to limit the rain damage.

You have to spend fair money on them for them to not fail after a single season.

Easiest would be to go to the folks who sold you the furniture and look at what they offer. Getting third party stuff that fits well isn't super easy either, unless you get custom stuff, which is £££

Cheers.

Good to manage my expectations. They were old stock so I doubt it will be easy to get manufacturers ones.

I grabbed some cheap ones on amazon and will see how they fair.
https://amzn.eu/d/7oU7Y1B

We finally sold my mother’s place a couple of months ago after she went into a home in Portugal and the death of my father. They had it for 55 years and and I was quite sad for a while when it went, it was kind of a final ending in a lot of ways.
On the plus side I drove past it a couple of weeks ago and it now looks lived in and cherished, more so than in many years.

Anyone had their incoming electricity supply moved? The bit that the network operator has to do, not just the meter.

Keen to hear stories/ tips. My incoming supply is in a cupboard in the bedroom at very low level, and looka sub optimal for a lot of other reasons. I'm having a new consumer unit and a partial rewire anyway, so it feels like it's a thing worth doing and worth doing now (albeit it'll need the network operator, the supplier and the electrician to all do their own bits)

I recently looked up one of my childhood homes, last sold 2018 for 4x the price of my current house

For DNO moves I'd not expect it to be a quick process, hope for 3 months, assume 6 months and don't expect it to be done and you're unlikely to be disappointed.

This is my experience from a commercial perspective where we were doing a fair amount of connections, disconnections and moves.

This is where we wish we all had family that bought in London 40 years ago...

In 1990 my parents had considered buying a cheapish townhouse in Angel Islington, decided against it as my dad hated London. Fool.

In the late 90s my gran used to have a house in zone 1, she sold it to move with my parents up to York despite being absolutely loaded and didn't need to sell it. Even at the time my mum was trying to convince her not to. I don't think I'd even want to live there but the rental income alone would be amazing.

My aunt owned a whole one of these houses on the green, sold in the early 2000s to move closer to my parents..

https://maps.app.goo.gl/duHXPv7UerbWNTxC7

Got out of Finchley alive - result ;-)

Wrong side of the North Circular too.

Edited - I didn't read the post properly. We just had our meters moved. Didn't significantly change the location of supply

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/135142547#/?channel=RES_BUY

House of a former Premier League player (you can see who fairly easily) is for sale not too far where my mum and dad are selling theirs. The taste is questionable but it actually looks quite original at least.

They're a very pleasant family to be fair.

Gardening bills must be chonky

Richard Dunne?

Dunne Roamin