Property Solutions to Sell Your House Fast For Market Value
The main disadvantages of buying leasehold property include paying service charges and ground rents, which can be very costly and you have no control over. But also, owners of leasehold property are often governed by many restrictive covenants and will need permission to extend or make alterations.
House sellers often lie with the biggest percentage lying about neighbour disputes, which is one of the hardest lies to uncover and protect against. Buying a house when the seller has a dispute with a neighbour doesn’t always mean you shouldn’t buy, but knowing is key so you make the right decision.
When selling a house there is no legal requirement to provide buyers electrical safety certificates, but buyers may ask for a safety test on both gas and electricity as a check before they buy. However, if you provide an electrical safety certificate you may sell your house faster.
If a seller lied on their property information form the seller may be liable to pay damages to the buyer for misrepresentation. But it’s important for buyers to beware and to do their own due diligence by carrying out a survey, searches and other checks to make sure the property has no issues.
If your seller lied about being chain free and said there’s no onward chain you can pull-out of the purchase of this property, or continue to completion on the basis you’ve invested time and costs in the conveyancing process. Otherwise you’ll be back to the beginning and costs will have been wasted.
You may own an ex-council house and you might be wondering if it is worth extending it. Ex-council house or not, the same question applies to extending any property. For any building work that’s done on a property, it’s about weighing up the cost of building an extension vs the additional value the extra space […]
