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Does the UK building regulations allow for having no principal contractor for domestic clients?
Under The Building Regulations 2010 (as amended), a domestic client is a client where the project is being carried out for non-business reasons.
A contractor is someone who carries out the work, and ...
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Does the Law Society (UK) state a recommended time to leave between exchange and completion?
I read the following on a solicitor/conveyancer website and out of curiosity was looking to see if this really is true:
The Law Society Conveyancing Contract states you leave 20 working days
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UK - Can one person owning 50% of a house force a sale?
Is it possible for a single owner to force a sale assuming it's 50-50. Are there any exceptions to the rule?
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Consequences for vendor not fulfilling signed contract on a property?
There's an issue on a property whereby the purchasers signed a contract with the vendors to buy a house. The contract stipulated that all charges be discharged from the property but this wasn't done ...
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After exchange of contracts in property purchase, what happens if someone has COVID-19 on the completion date?
Say I am selling my home to a buyer and also purchasing a house from someone, and the chain of sales goes no further than this (for the sake of simplicity). All house sales are in the UK, where you ...
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Can an estate agent legally incentivize someone to sell below market value?
My neighbor is selling his house and the estate agent has listed it below market value, but in return is offering to pay the stamp duty and bill to refurbish the kitchen in the house he is moving to.
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Getting property removed from my land
I require somebody else's property to be removed from land I am freeholder of as I need the space myself. I think that:
Them refusing to remove it is "tresspass", a civil wrong.
I can take them to ...
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