7500 for first time home buyers

With summer just around the corner, Mark Buller and his family should be looking forward to enjoying the sunshine in the garden of their newly-built £700,000 detached home. Instead they anticipate spending the season doing the opposite — staying inside, shutting the windows and trying as hard as they can to keep the great outdoors, well, outdoors. The reason? The developers of their estate in Frimley, Surrey, chose to site a sewage pumping station beneath their front garden — waste from eight neighbouring properties is channelled through a tank under their lawn. ‘It’s ridiculous — everything stinks,’ says 41-year-old sales manager Mr Buller who, with his wife and three children, moved into the property in June 2016. Thomas, Rhian, Mark, and Holly Buller outside of their home where a sewage pump for the entire Linden Homes Heathlands estate development is in their front garden ‘Why should my family have to live in a house that smells like … [Read more...] about How the dash to build is turning dream homes into nightmares: Families left with bouncing floors, nails poking up through carpets and even the smell of SEWAGE in the garden as firms look to fulfill house-building targets

The cost of a first-time buyer property in London is often astonishing to those who live elsewhere in the country.  But years of rampant house price rises mean that the average first-time buyer price is £423,000 in Greater London, according to Halifax. And that means that an attractive two-bedroom flat for £400,000 could be considered a good deal, which is why television property star and MailOnline Property expert Sarah Beeny picked this one in south west London as her bargain property of the month. This two-bedroom flat in south west London's Norbury has been picked by Sarah Beeny as her bargain property of the month Pictured: Norbury is a town in south west London, and it is 6.7 miles south of Charing Cross The first-floor flat in Norbury is only five minutes' walk from the town's train station, with direct trains to London Bridge and Victoria stations. It has a large open-plan living area, along with two bedrooms and two bathrooms. Sarah, who is the founded of … [Read more...] about What does £400,000 get a first-time buyer in the capital? Sarah Beeny heads to south west London to pick her bargain property of the month

A retired couple could lose their £650,000 home after a disagreement with a neighbour over a privet hedge. Grandparents Ron and Wendy Long were left devastated after they discovered workmen chopping down a hedge between their home and their neighbour's home in Dorset.  Ron, 72, claimed the fence posts they had partially installed were on his land, and wrote letters asking his neighbour Diana Lambeth to consult with him on the plans for any further work. But Mrs Lambeth pursued an injunction against the couple in order to stop them interfering with the hedge and an independent expert decided the boundary was in the middle of the old hedge - and the Longs agreed in a bid to end the matter to avoid legal costs. The Longs represented themselves in court, and the judge ordered that Ron and Wendy pay Mrs Lambeth's court costs of £13,792. The couple had been unable to obtain a loan to cover the costs due to a Crown Court Judgement (CCJ) hey incurred by not paying the costs on … [Read more...] about Retired couple face losing £650,000 home over a HEDGE after boundary war with elderly neighbour sparked court order to have it forcibly sold

Residents have threatened to quit a new town over hundreds of faults with their homes - including no frosted glass on bathroom windows overlooking footpaths. Homeowners in newly-built Sherford, to the east of Plymouth, Devon, are in 'turmoil' including woman one who said she has 140 problems with her property. Locals say around 50 people want to move from the houses - worth up to 500K - but claim they have been banned from putting up 'For Sale' signs. A toilet next to a clear glass window in a house in the newly built town of Sherford where a number of house buyers have complained  The Sherford town in Plymouth, Devon, which is still being developed and 'progressing well' RELATED ARTICLES Previous 1 Next Sickening moment 'protester' stuns onlookers by eating a raw... 'Blood was pouring out of him, he was screaming "why has... Share this article Share The vision 'was to create a sustainable town with a unique identity' say Sherford developers Jeff Lyle, who … [Read more...] about Residents threaten to quit their new £500,000 homes after encountering hundreds of faults including no frosted glass on bathroom windows that overlook public footpaths

Dr Katia De Filippo has been forced to move into rented accommodation with her parents (pictured above with her father Angelo De Filippo) A scientist has been forced to move in with her parents following a divorce battle with her multi-millionaire ex-husband for their £1million marital home. Dr Katia De Filippo claims the home she shared with her estranged ex Luca Manetta and their young child, has been left 'derelict and ugly'. The Imperial College London immunologist split with her wealthy partner in 2016 and has since moved into a rented home with her parents, while her once 'lovely home' in west London remains empty. Mr Manetta inherited a vast fortune from a rich uncle in Italy and plunged some of his cash into buying their Shepherds Bush home in 2009, having married in 2006. At a hearing at Central London County Court, Dr De Filippo asked Judge Michael Kent QC to order the sale of the property, in order for her to have enough cash to purchase a new property for her and her … [Read more...] about Divorcing scientist is ‘forced to live with her parents’ while £1m west London marital home lies ‘derelict’ is battling estranged millionaire husband to sell it