Can you pull out of a house sale 4 days after paper work going through?

numnum | 21:10 Mon 20th Sep 2010 | Property

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Me and my partner bought a house of a family member. We've owned it for 4 days.

I ask, as when we sold our property a while back there was a 7 day period once the person moved in that they could highlight things that needed fixed and we'd be responsible

This is in Scotland

Property not on Land Registry - who has the deeds, wins?

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numnum

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we've bought it now and paid cash but its just the cheek to ask for the £100 while he has his fine heated house and the one we bought is basically walls and half the house had to be knocked down

society

The real estate agent, CAS! :-)

boxtops

Have you not bought it via a solicitor? - I know I had to have a legal contract when Ibought property in Scotland when I lived there. You will be a very difficult position it it's later proved that the house is still your grandad's and it's been sold without his knowledge or permission - it sounds like the person who's sold it to you, doesn't own it.

Count-A-Strong

Society. It says in the question that they bought it off a family member. I just wondered which one as the person who seems to own it is in a retirement home and knows nothing about the sale n

numnum

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i tried to get everything sorted but they wanted their money!!!! bought from the nephe

Count-A-Strong

The nephew? I thought he rented it off the grandads daughter?

Meg

My son is a Scottish lawyer, I will forward this to him. I'm sure he'll have a good chuckle!!

Count-A-Strong

Sorry, went back through your answers and its clear now that the house was gifted to a couple of people. The crux of the matter would therefore seem to be; was this hitting done via a legal process or was it just a case of 'there's the keys, the house is yours'?

Count-A-Strong

Hitting = selling.

AlBags

What a mess ...
I don't think you can get help here .. just judgement.
Best to write to all family and book a meeting and solicitor for a joint solution.

boxtops

It sounds like a pushed-through private arrangement - and now you find you've bought a pig in a poke. Oh dear.

numnum

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we're very happy to do it up.

the daughter/grandpa (know one really knows who) signed it over to the nephew when he went into the care home. which if it was the daughter it is a big regret signing it over rather than just letting him live their

i just feel sooo sorry for my boyfriend at how his brother could do that to him.

the sale was all done properly through the solicitor

numnum

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the nephew has never paid for it, it was just given to him as a gift of free rent since the daughter (who should've owned it) lived further away and had her own house

numnum

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the reason we've bought it was more the sentimental side of things

boxtops

It was? - then presumably he did all the necessary searches about ownership and it's all OK. Have you got the deeds? If you paid cash, you should have them to prove you own the house now.

numnum

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the deeds should be in the post.

numnum

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thanks for all your posts. just to update you we've now been told we cant get the remortgage/loan to do it up ahhhhhhhhh

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