Owning your own home

Any recommendations for conveyancers? we've just accepted an offer on our house and I'm looking for one.

I had a recommendation for SAM conveyancing from here previously, I'd like another to compare prices to.

We used an online one, https://myhomemoveconveyancing.co.uk/. It was good, online portal with all the documents etc.

Thanks, I'll get a quote for reference.

Last time we bought we had a very difficult transaction and getting to be able to speak to someone was quite important. I think (perhaps incorrectly) that online might be a worry for me in case similar happens.

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/147948488#/?channel=RES_BUY

Watch the video.

We used Heather at setfords, couldn't speak highly enough of her, always available to discuss things and we never had to chase for anything, she was always keeping it moving.

https://www.setfords.co.uk/our-people/profile/heather_harry/

This was on r/spottedonrightmove (I know the listing is from zoopla) earlier and they'd still got a photo of the front of the house. Why wouldn't someone just take 20 mins to paint over it before listing?

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Maybe not sold by the owner - e.g. enforcement sale so the seller is only acting on authority of a bank and doesn't care about maximising sale proceeds?

brilliant - thanks very much

Not very good at spelling are they?

Maybe it's Padeos in Welsh?

Brings up an important question: would you knowingly buy and live in a house last lived in by a known paedophile, if it meant you got to save 10% on the market price?

If someone was maybe doing stuff in the house no but if say the person was caught with stuff on a computer and went to jail Id say yes

I think its the same as house that someones been murdered in.

Folk forget about a houses origins unless there has been something truly gruesome happened in it.

Any local that you met though and told them where you lived, you'd always know they were thinking "oh right - the paedo house."

Buy it, £5k on a lick of paint outside and in, some minor landscaping and then flip it for £££ to some unsuspecting buyer.

I looked up what the person had done, they should have just demolished the house, and before anyone asks, honestly, you dont want to know it was horrific.

Did you get that the wrong way round? If they'd done active paedo'ing in the house you'd buy it but not if they only had it on their computer?

Its been removed from rightmove since yesterday. With no idea about what happened there, the description of the house was incredibly tone deaf

Hahaha, aye wrong way round... Wee edit required.

That probs answers what I said although I wasn't paying attention and had a bit of a typo there

One for the scottish folk on here.

Is it a legal requirement for a house buying or selling to have smoke alarms fitted. i was under the impression it was but im being told it isnt and is not a legal requirement.

It’s a legal requirement to have interlinked fire alarms in a house you own.

That said, how this is enforced through a sale or purchase isn’t very clear. From my experience, when we sold we had to have everything done to the current legal standards because we’d done work in the house and BC were involved. The house we bought had 3 battery powered smoke alarms which don’t meet the legal standards and it never came up as they had done no work in the past 20 years (our solicitor asked and we just said we would bring the property up to legal standard)

I think it depends on what you’re selling and what you’re buying. I guess you could ask a seller to bring a place up to legal standard though…

Edit: ignore me - hadn’t noticed it was a Scotland specific q

Tried to arrange a viewing for the first time in two and a half years.

I called Stow Brothers and expected to get 'the open day is this Saturday and it is fully booked. The seller only wants proceedable buyers'.

Instead I got, 'we would be happy to arrange a viewing. Friday next week is great.'

Now I need to find out if my Nationwide mortgage is portable.

I just cycled past this one, think I might put an offer in

They're still a complete bunch of cunts

As an asides my bro in law is trying to buy in Leytonstone, stuff still getting multiple bids and best and final offers, unbelievable really.

Some friends of ours had three offers accepted in one day in leytonstone a couple of weeks ago. I daren't ask what sort of offers they were chucking about