historically (pre-covid), summer-autumn is the time where more houses were listed than winter-spring
The nervous wait to exchange....
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The opposite from what I’ve seen. Fewer properties go on sale because people don’t want to deal with it during Xmas etc. Gets busier around February.
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Barely any. Feb/March is our peak
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Yea thats what i am saying. so when is the best time for a young family to start looking to buy and move to a new area?
My comment was based off of someome saying that the ideal time to find and secure a property for a young family was 6 months ago, but teh market was pretty dead here where i was looking.
My comment was based off of someome saying that the ideal time to find and secure a property for a young family was 6 months ago, but teh market was pretty dead here where i was looking.
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Can someone offer their advice on indemnity insurance for lack of building regulations on a conservatory?
The house we are buying had a conservatory built in 2005, not the by current vendor. The searches are done and we have the planning permission for it and the current vendor has receipts that were presumably given to her when she bought the house in 2012.
Our solicitor has advised there is nothing to prove that the conservatory was built to building regulations, it is approx 7m by 3.5m and appears to be in excellent condition, she has asked if we want a quote for indemnity insurance, she has advised given the age of it the risk of it coming back to haunt us is very low, but still a risk all the same.
I thought it needed to be > 30m2 for building reg's to be a thing, but I'll just have to take their advice
Is this worth doing, is it expensive, do we pay, does the seller pay or do we do split the difference? Or given the age it is something we simply ignore? We were toying with the idea of having the conservatory redone (in a year or 3 perhaps) with a proper roof.
I've obviously asked the solicitor, but I'll not hear back from them until Monday at the earliest.
I don't see it as a deal breaker in the grand scheme of things if it's essential we'll do it, just curious as much as anything.
The house we are buying had a conservatory built in 2005, not the by current vendor. The searches are done and we have the planning permission for it and the current vendor has receipts that were presumably given to her when she bought the house in 2012.
Our solicitor has advised there is nothing to prove that the conservatory was built to building regulations, it is approx 7m by 3.5m and appears to be in excellent condition, she has asked if we want a quote for indemnity insurance, she has advised given the age of it the risk of it coming back to haunt us is very low, but still a risk all the same.
I thought it needed to be > 30m2 for building reg's to be a thing, but I'll just have to take their advice
Is this worth doing, is it expensive, do we pay, does the seller pay or do we do split the difference? Or given the age it is something we simply ignore? We were toying with the idea of having the conservatory redone (in a year or 3 perhaps) with a proper roof.
I've obviously asked the solicitor, but I'll not hear back from them until Monday at the earliest.
I don't see it as a deal breaker in the grand scheme of things if it's essential we'll do it, just curious as much as anything.
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2 things:
1. It's probably fine, but indemnity insurance is cheap. Cheap enough that it is easier to just get it.
2. A solid roof on a conservatory usually destroys interior light, in a pretty catastrophic way.
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As soon as possible before. Settle into the area, find friends. 6 months is playing with fire, although it depends on the schools being over/under subscribed.
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Thanks for that, it's sort of what we were thinking/hoping, I'm sure out solicitor will fill us in after the long weekend.
As for the roof it al hinges on how we use the space and what the temperatures extremes are like, only time will tell!
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Yeah for sure. My mum's is generally far too cold in winter and then bakes in summer, but with windows open it is pleasant. My neighbor had a hard roof put on and they're considering ripping it off because of the loss of light tho. maybe hard roof plus sky lights is the winner!
That's not what I said at all. What I said was that school applications would have gone in about 6 months ago. Meaning they would have ideally already moved into their new home before that so they can apply for a school local to their new home. If they started looking for a house in December they would have left it too late in most cases although as mentioned they might get lucky if schools are undersubscribed and hence they can get a place in a school despite having missed the original application deadline.
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here's hoping!
I’d rather be working with someone who is willing to kick a solicitor into touch if they are not working out than someone who sticks with it regardless. Our vendor said she was often left in years free talking to her solicitor which I find bizarre, I would have dropped them in an instant!
@nantucket66 what building regulations are they worried about? Conservatories are not considered to be habitable rooms so there are very few that actually apply.
As for enforcement, it’s a highly unlikely scenario but as such the policy will be cheap. Ask the vendor to pay, they usually do if it’s their paperwork that is missing.
As for a warm conservatory roof, we have one on ours and it makes the room very usable all year round. There are two skylights to add light. Ours only has glass in 2 walls (south - full bifold doors and west) and the other external wall is well insulated so it holds the heat in pretty well in winter.
As for enforcement, it’s a highly unlikely scenario but as such the policy will be cheap. Ask the vendor to pay, they usually do if it’s their paperwork that is missing.
As for a warm conservatory roof, we have one on ours and it makes the room very usable all year round. There are two skylights to add light. Ours only has glass in 2 walls (south - full bifold doors and west) and the other external wall is well insulated so it holds the heat in pretty well in winter.
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I'm not sure yet - we'll hopefully find out on Monday, I only got the info at 5:30pm on Wednesday. The vendor is turning into a bit of a PITA so I might bite the bullet and pay for it myself if not too expensive just to make it go away. The end is in sight as it were but every week there is something, the house was undervalued and ever since we renegotiated the price every little thing is blown out of all proportion - I want an easy life and to get it over the line and this is the last little hurdle as far as we can see.
As for the roof - that was our thinking for the future, we'll live in it and what see what happens, but I suspect we know the answer already
To be honest, if you are pulling down the existing conservatory, you may better off rebuilding it as a traditional single story extension, assuming the existing foundation will take it. You can open plan it then as well and not need a door between the two.
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DOes pulling down a concervatory yield larger costs on top of building a new one?
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Highly unlikely conservatory foundations would take a single story extension tho right?
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The idea of pulling it down and starting again with a proper extension is definitely an option for the future potentially, it wouldn't be an immediate thing, but it's on the list.
Not if it falls into permitted development which most single story extensions to the rear will unless they are massive. Even if you needed planning permission, you'll not likely have problems getting it for a single story rear extension if its reasonable and no special rules apply (e.g. listed building).
If you are staying within the same footprint and the existing foundations can take what ever you are replacing it with then no. You could have the existing conservatory down in a day, laying a foundation will take a lot longer.
It dependsHighly unlikely conservatory foundations would take a single story extension tho right?
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