House buying, selling, viewing and the housing market.
Daily Mail news story about Mole Man’s house for sale. Apparently this man had dug tunnels under his house – which has no roof and is probably structurally unsound. William Lyttle’s house needs full internal and external refurbishment.
1 bedroom detached house for sale
Offers in Excess of£500,000
Hackney, London
How much should solicitors fees be for buying a property?
This is a really frequent question that people have – and they normally ask it when they get a quote from one company.
How much the conveyancing charges should be will vary according to what house you’re buying and what sort of solicitor you use.
Get lots of quotes. Compare like with like though – if you get an online conveyancing quote, compare it with other online quotes.
Local solicitors will be found in the yellow pages, or ask friends who they used.
Get the quotes in writing so you can sit and compare the details. Ask them to include any info on possible other charges.
A solicitor who deals with auction properties is likely to be able to move faster than one who doesn’t – this is a good thing to remember if you’re buying a repossession and want to avoid anyone else sniping your offer.
So before you ask “is this quote about right?” you should check you’ve got several quotes. If you find big discrepencies then you need to work out why. Has one solicitor omitted something or are they just cheaper. Always double check if a quote sounds really cheap.
Another important thing to think about is how easy they are to get hold of. If you ring them up do they answer the phone quickly? Can you email info back and forwards to them at no extra charge? With this in mind you should be able to find the best solicitor for you at the best price.
On my last property purchase I used a local solicitor and was able to email him rather than have to ring up. I thought this was a great idea and meant I had proper information in front of me rather than having to make notes of a phone call.
We went to a wedding yesterday at Thornton Manor in Thornton Hough. It’s a beautiful location and a fantastic house.
It’s always nice to use rightmove to see what properties are for sale in the area.
This lovely one is on for £1.4M and is on Willaston Road, Thornton Hough
Thornton Court is a lovely grade 2 listed house. Not as grand as Thornton manor but still a really lovely looking house set in 5 acres of land.
And yes it was a beautiful wedding!
Radio Times review of Location Location Location says the show has past it’s best article here
It’s always been a shocking program to watch if you have a realistic budget of 3X minimum wage. (I’ll let you do the maths on that but you are starting to find houses almost at this level if you don’t mind a small terrace in parts of Manchester.)
For people in the real world not on glamourous wages it’s really always been property porn.
Not as bad as the programs like Grand Designs (although having architectural merit and the most interesting people sometimes helps make that show amazing) or Escape to the country which often has exotic budgets.
I love big houses, if I could make a career out of going and viewing them I would. Hmm maybe I should work on that idea a bit!
October’s Auction Catalogue is out now!
Another set of interesting properties!
Download the catalogue on the link above
order of sale for
Tuesday 25th October 2011 sale starts at 2.00pm
GORTON 9 Parkdale Avenue Terraced property in two one bedroom flats
LONGSIGHT 35 Prout Street Two bedroom terrace house
ECCLES 17 Hallsworth Road Tenanted one bedroom ground floor flat
ECCLES 7 Crossfield Road Tenanted two bedroom flat
WALKDEN 5 Kendal Grove Two bedroom ground floor flat
CHEADLE HULME 143 Grove Lane Three bedroom semi detached house
HANDFORTH Land at Spath Lane Two parcels of land
WITHINGTON 2b Minehead Avenue Three bedroom semi detached house
POYNTON 14 The Spinney Chester Road Two bedroom second floor flat
ALTRINCHAM Apt. 2154 30 Woodfield Road One bedroom ground floor apartment
REDDISH 17 Longford Road Shop with four bedroom accommodation above
WORSLEY 274 Newearth Road Two bedroom end terrace house
CHEADLE HULME 41 Cheadle Road Detached four bedroom dormer bungalow
CHEADLE HULME 14 Longsight Lane Four bedroom detached house
ACCRINGTON Apt. 8 8-10 Scaitcliffe Street Tenanted two bedroom ground floor apartment
ACCRINGTON Apt. 8a 8-10 Scaitcliffe Street Two bedroom ground floor apartment
ASHTON UNDER LYNE 184-186 Stamford Street Central Vacant commercial premises
WHALLEY RANGE Zandra House 73 Carlton Road Purpose built block of 75 flats, studios
& bedsits
ASHTON UNDER LYNE 125 Trafalgar Street Two bedroom terrace house
NEWTON HEATH 12 Silverstone Drive Three bedroom semi detached house
EDGELEY 13 Penrhyn Road Three bedroom semi detached house
BOLTON Land at Minerva Road Parcel of land with planning permission
MANCHESTER Flat 305, 36 Hilton Street Two bedroom third floor flat
MANCHESTER Apt. 0.06, 53 Dale Street Tenanted two bedroom flat
STOCKPORT 1 Vernon Avenue Three bedroom semi detached house
SALFORD Unit 5 Albion Trading Estate Warehouse with offices
MANCHESTER Apt. 303 5 Ludgate Hill Tenanted two bedroom fourth floor apartment
DUKINFIELD 407 King Street Two bedroom terrace house
CLAYTON 7 Sheldon Street Tenanted two bedroom terrace house
HYDE 4 Cotton Tree Court Reynold Street Tenanted ground floor flat
LONGSIGHT 9 Hatton Street Two bedroom terrace house
TYLDESLEY 79 Shakerley Road Two bedroom terrace house
MANCHESTER 591 Cheetham Hill Rd Tenanted public house34
ROCHDALE The Highland Laddie, Spotland Road Vacant public house
SALFORD 6 Hersey Street Two bedroom terrace house
GORTON 127 Craig Road Two bedroom terrace house
SALFORD 21 Knutsford Street Two bedroom terrace house
OLDHAM 55 Queens Road Six bedroom semi detached house
BOLTON 36 Valpy Avenue Three bedroom semi detached house
DEBDALE PARK 3 Reddish Lane Three bedroom end terrace house
GORTON 14 Williams Street Three bedroom terrace house
BACUP 25 Market Street Restaurant with six bedroom flat
HEATON MERSEY 30a Sunnybank Avenue Two bedroom ground floor flat
RADCLIFFE 118 Higher Dean Street Five bedroom terrace house
VICTORIA PARK Flat 10, 4 Conyngham Road One bedroom second floor flat
NEW MOSTON 18 Northfield Road Three bedroom period detached house
LEIGH 1 Walmesley Road Tenanted two bedroom ground floor flat
PRESTON 19 Christ Church Street Terrace house in two flats
OLDHAM 2 Boundary Court Four bedroom town house
WIDNES 14 Fir Street Two bedroom terrace
ASHTON UNDER LYNE 129 Mossley Road Two bedroom end terrace house
ACCRINGTON 35 Maudsley Street Tenanted one bedroom end terrace
BURNLEY 86 Every Street Two bedroom terrace house
ECCLES 67 Portland Road Three bedroom semi detached house
SALE 5 Gawsworth Road Three bedroom town house
LEVENSHULME 1031-1033 Stockport Road Double fronted shop with upper parts
ROMILEY 84-86 Stockport Road Former doctors surgery
BREDBURY 4 Redhouse Lane Three bedroom end terrace house
WIDNES 54-58 Victoria Road Row of three storey retail premises
GORTON 652 Hyde Road Double fronted shop with upper parts
GORTON 78 Furnival Road Two bedroom semi detached house
RUSHOLME Flat 41, 367 Moss Lane East Tenanted two bedroom second floor flat
NEWTON HEATH 73 Scotland Street Two bedroom terrace house
FARNWORTH 27 Campbell Street SOLD PRIOR
RADCLIFFE 12 Bright Street Two bedroom terrace house
The top 20 most viewed houses in Wales according to Rightmove for September – list here
I’ve looked at Kemeys Folly – which is a Grand Designs house! And the beautiful house with a beach in Temby – Waterwynch House
I’m now going to look at some of the others! St Fagins looks great!
There’s a debate going on about some councils in London deciding to favour the employed in social housing queues.
For the taxpayer which costs more
Unemployed – get benefits and rent help. Presumably full to the limits on age etc.
Employed – If you’re on minimum wage and in private rented you’ll get some benefit help towards your rent (I assume but haven’t yet done the calculations to show this) and possibly tax credits too.
Which works out best for the taxpayer?
Cheaper rents all round would be the thing that really helped!
20,000 people a year build their own home!
Watch some of them on this interesting program presented by Simmon O’Brien
Cheshire Andy Bloor building
a house on his farm – plan to spend £175k.
His son will have the old farm house and him and his wife will have the new house. It’s not about a grand statement architecturally but a home!
This is certainly a different program from other house building shows on TV – no huge budgets here!
It’s also magaziney in style with going between the build featured to other projects and info.!
13/20. Simon O’Brien gets stuck in to building stud walls at building college.
14/20. Featuring a cutting-edge home in Wales that really has the wow factor.
15/20. Presenter Simon O’Brien learns how to make a traditional ceiling rose
at building college.
16/20. presenter Simon O’Brien gets to grips with tiling at building college.
17/20. Featuring a university professor who has built an eco-home in West Yorkshire.
18/20. Simon O’Brien is left high and dry when he has to fix a roof ridge at
building school.
19/20. Simon O’Brien tries not to throw the towel in when fitting a bath at
building college.
20/20. Simon O’Brien cannot see the wood for the trees when trying carpentry
at building college.
To Build or Not to Build episodes available now on BBC iPlayer
Marine Parade, Lyme Regis, Dorset has this fascinating house by architect, Arnold Mitchell, built in 1903 in the Arts & Crafts style. The property is Listed Grade II as being of Significant Architectural Importance and Historic Interest.
It’s a 6 bedroom imposing house
Sea views make this house extra stunning!
It has an Entrance hall, drawing room, dining room, study, kitchen and 5 bedrooms, one with en suite bathroom and separate dressing room, bedroom 6/study, family bathroom
4th floor roof terrace with superlative views
They want £1 million for it!
Joey Barton is rumoured to live here at this 7 bedroom property for sale in Jesmond, Newcastle Upon Tyne.
It’s very stylish and pretty. In picture 4 you can see the massive aquarium it has.
It’s a massive 9’6 wide by 2’3 deep, glazed fish aquarium, which divides two of the principal reception rooms at the front of the house. The fish aquarium could be available by separate negotiation