Owning your own home

Any halfway competent one, anyway.

Yeah about that

That’s awesome, thank you.

Kinda funny when I first viewed that house nobody mentioned the ability to drive a car in to the rear garden.

We’re trying to buy a house in France right now and the buying experience in Britain is light years ahead of theirs. Estate agents are lazy, photos are crap and never of anything useful, floor plans are rare, descriptions are sparse and less than honest and nobody ever tells you where the damn place is.

Kinda funny when I first viewed that house nobody mentioned the ability to drive a car in to the rear garden.

It could be that they don't actually have a right to use the service street, in which case that might explain why it wasn't mentioned. Or it could just be standard baseline incompetence.

Presumably the safe way to do things would be to ask the vendors if anyone objects to them using the service street, them should I try to buy the place, make it clear that any offer is based on the assumption that some kind of right to use (through use as you say or otherwise) is in place, then make sure the solicitors do their job in determining this.

The GIS map is interesting as it highlights the weird rear access arrangements some of the houses have around the area. Seems to be a common thing in North Ealing.

http://maps.ealing.gov.uk/Webreports/Highways/Adoptedroads.html

You can see that the service road gives access to rear access to several houses on that street.

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We’re trying to buy a house in France right now and the buying experience in Britain is light years ahead of theirs. Estate agents are lazy, photos are crap and never of anything useful, floor plans are rare, descriptions are sparse and less than honest and nobody ever tells you where the damn place is.

Interested in how this goes as I think I'd like a bit of a break from the UK.

If you are already frustrated at that stage you might find the road ahead a bit of a struggle.

So many questions..

https://www.zoopla.co.uk/for-sale/details/45226780

The two kitchens is a bit odd..

When you combine Josef Fritzl with Lawrence Llewellyn Bowen

Wipe clean furniture, viewing glass in the floors ‘front room’ 🤔

Arsenal football player's shag pad?

Looks like one kitchen but taken from opposite ends.

No floorplan is a disappoint.

I’d imagine when they tried they just gave up. That over hang on the swimming pool gives me the fear. As much as the rest at least.

Two rooms with only single beds 🤔

One kitchen with two separate ovens? In one of them the saucepan shelf betwixt hob and extractor is going to get awful greasy.

Presumably the safe way to do things would be to ask the vendors if anyone objects to them using the service street, them should I try to buy the place, make it clear that any offer is based on the assumption that some kind of right to use (through use as you say or otherwise) is in place, then make sure the solicitors do their job in determining this.

Worth a try, if the vehicular access to the rear garden is important to you. Indemnity insurance would also be a possibility - I suspect that ownership of the access road may well be something lost in the mists of time.

kitchenette in the pool-equipped basement. Kitchen in the main bit of the crime against architecture flat

I doubt you're Northern Scotland!

May be able to help if you can get some pics of the mechanism of another window that's the same

Bit of a long shot here, but if you are looking in the Poitou-Charentes area I have a relative who is selling up!

Yes I think it would be important - without the access the service road is only a liability and there are other terraces that don’t have that issue. They don’t generally have off street parking though or rear access capable of taking building materials / plant.

kitchenette in the pool-equipped basement. Kitchen in the main bit of the crime against architecture flat

Glad someone beat me to it, that is rank.

descriptions are sparse and less than honest

Is that possible?!

So agents over tomorrow with their 'professional' photographer. He's asking for payment upfront which I've taken a point of ignoring.

Am I being a bastard here?

So agents over tomorrow with their 'professional' photographer. He's asking for payment upfront which I've taken a point of ignoring.

Wait, they are charging you for photos?

If so find another agent.