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  • Don't worry... Its a real 'fixer upper'...

  • fixer upper

    even better - we are in it for the long run here !

  • Muswell Hill is in despate need of these thanks to COVID is become a hotspot for these bellends

  • Top tip - Be ready for all the people you need to do things almost certainly going on holiday exactly when you need them to be doing them.

  • Not sure this is exactly the right place, but are there are regs I need to be aware of if I'm considering converting a single garage into a work space (for a desk based job - literally a computer, desk and chair).

    I'd like to insulate and plaster the walls, perhaps insert a window and sort out the floor. I've used all my permitted development space, but is this a planning 'thing' that I need to apply to the council for?

    Anyone strongly advise not converting a garage for any reason?! Its an old style garage, too narrow for modern cars really, so ideally it'd be workspace at the front, party time (bikes) at the rear. I don't think I'm knocking value off my house, right?

  • All of the above is good advice, I would add get a good 'responsive' lawyer that you can communicate directly and quickly with. That made a huge difference in terms of speed and minimising potential pitfalls as well as provide a certain sense of 'control' in the process

  • Other party could have a shit solicitor though. No guarantees in this game!

  • Obvious but make sure that you've got everything lined up that you may need. Solicitor, mortgage, copies of (or easy access to) documents that you may need (e.g. payslips, bank statements, passport, a recent utility bill), access to a printer (you might not need it or you may desperately need to physically sign something, it seems to wildly vary), etc

    Find out whether there's a chain and, if there is, how big it is, where it is, what the status of all the parties in it is, how much of a handle your estate agent has on it, etc

  • True, but at least you know where the fault is and can apply pressure accordingly, if both solicitors are shit then you are doomed specially if buying in sellers market / area in demand. We once had a shitty lawyer and teamed up with the seller and their lawyer to make sure we completed despite of his ineptitude. Again anything that empowers you in this 'the most expensive purchase' is gold

  • In the place that shall not be named but begins with an "A" and that's miles from anywhere to get a decent brew - things still seem fairly insane.

    A house a few doors down from me was up for offers in excess of 985 and it had 17 offers on it and the successful offer was 65k over that.

    Money seems to have genuinely lost all sense of worth.

  • Where we are in West I think the agents have finally got ahead of the market - asking prices aren't being met. These two would have gone STC in a few days 6 months ago (but at 1.3 :-0).

    https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/122932550
    https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/96572170

  • We’re getting Stow Bros in to value our place tomorrow - we might be making an offer on place in Bedfordshire

  • Interesting, IIRC Brackenbury "village" (I despise any area in London being called a fucking village) was one of the first places in the area where house prices started going mental.

  • Bit harsh when it was "London" that expanded to encompass a lot of the original villages.

  • village

    Agree, real puke on cock stuff

  • Yeah but that's not the story of brackenbury village - it's just a few acres of bog standard Victorian workers' cottages that didn't get bombed too much and didn't get a motorway or railway line built through it.

  • It will need Building Control / Building Regulations approval.

    It may not need planning but you should be able to check with your local planning dept fairly easily. It may come under permitted development unless the property/area has them removed for some reason.

  • FYI Ocado don’t deliver there.

  • I'd also ask vince from ee11 to value. He was a bit of a pain in the arse to deal with sometimes but he did a couple of things when the chain was eating itself and was imminently about to fall apart that actually saved the deal which enormously impressed me.
    I paid .8 plus vat which the stow brothers won't match

  • Exciting.

    I would also get in Petty Son. They are bandits, but they pretty much own that part of East London and would extract top dollar.

  • Please don’t, as a buyer I found Stowbrothers lazy and dishonest (ended up purposely avoiding them). A good friend selling a flat with them also ended up switching agents. We ended up buying with Robert from SmartMove(s) and he was the opposite, honest and efficient (even though this was E10 a bit far from his regular patch, E11 might be too far but who knows)

  • There is also a forest gate village. Now I like forest Gate and used to live a stones throw from it but it still has drug dealers and people stabbing each other over arguments regarding postcodes and dealing turf and criminally reckless driving by young men in powerful German cars. A village it ain't.

    These things are all artificial constructs by estate agents and snobbish residents who wished they could afford Islington

  • Perhaps it is a stupid question but aren't you slightly worried about the timing of this? Yours won't be on the market for at least a few days, you need a few days for marketing/ to build up traction and interest and then the open day. So you might not have an offer on yours for 3 weeks.

  • snobbish residents

    I woke up to this a few days ago. I assume they are planning a Jubilee street party as well.


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