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The chancellor considers ‘extending stamp duty holiday by six weeks’

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  • d000hg
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    Originally posted by mattster View Post
    The house buying process in this country needs a serious overhaul.
    Amen. The fact I can buy a house and do all the searches, then sell it a year later and the new buyer has to do the same searches, for example.
    I thought this was the idea behind the Home Information Pack but that was killed off IIRC?

    I bought a place which had quite complicated curtilage and access. I was wondering if I use the solicitor I bought it with, to sell it, can they simply provide all that information to the new buyer? Clearly the same questions will be asked and it's a huge waste of my time filling in questionnaires but I'm pretty sure every sale starts with a complete clean slate on the solicitors' side?

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  • Whorty
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    I'd heard this the other day too .... certainly keeping fingers crossed here. I may be able to hit the current deadline, but it will be a push, but extending by 6 weeks will be much easier for me for sure.

    Logic would say that the extension is only for those who have a sale confirmed by the end of March to allow for those sales to get to completion. If they just extend what we have today all we'll end up with is a new cliff edge which doesn't make sense.

    But hey, when have governments followed logic and made sense?

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  • mattster
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    The house buying process in this country needs a serious overhaul. The fact that it can take 6 months to finalise a purchase, with either party able to pull out at any time, for any reason - with the other party perhaps a few grand down - is crazy. I've lived in a few other countries over the years and it is not uncommon for purchases to be essentially binding at the point of offer acceptance.
    Searches are crazy as well. Surely this should be a one-button operation? All of the data you need is (usually) on the public record somewhere. I know that private search companies exist now (quicker and cheaper), but not all mortgage lenders accept them.

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  • Martin@AS Financial
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    Originally posted by Lance View Post
    I was talking to an estate agent yesterday. Apparently some authorities are struggling with a backlog of searches, whereas some are handling them without delay.

    Anyway. It's the ******* torygraph. Every housing story has a disaster spin.
    One London council was hacked before Christmas which meant they were not able to carry out local authority searches which led to delays.

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  • Lance
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    Originally posted by ladymuck View Post
    There was something I saw in the Torygraph yesterday that said some people who 'sold' in July still won't complete in time. They must have really complicated sales / chains for it to take that long?
    I was talking to an estate agent yesterday. Apparently some authorities are struggling with a backlog of searches, whereas some are handling them without delay.

    Anyway. It's the ******* torygraph. Every housing story has a disaster spin.

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  • ladymuck
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    There was something I saw in the Torygraph yesterday that said some people who 'sold' in July still won't complete in time. They must have really complicated sales / chains for it to take that long?

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  • OwlHoot
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    I still think he'd have done better to make the holiday eligibility dependent on the start date of a sale, e.g. when the two parties first formally made contact for the purpose of that sale (as certified by their respective solicitors) rather than the completion date as I believe things stand. The latter introduces a lot of hard feeling when there are delays and a "cliff edge" end date, which is usually a Bad Thing.
    Last edited by OwlHoot; 16 February 2021, 10:21.

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  • The chancellor considers ‘extending stamp duty holiday by six weeks’

    Interesting report for The Property Industry Eye.


    The chancellor considers ‘extending stamp duty holiday by six weeks’ – Property Industry Eye

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