Frugal First Home http://www.frugalfirsthome.co.uk Two first-time buyers blogging about their journey from house to home. Come on in and take a look around! Tue, 05 Mar 2013 14:24:51 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Negotiations over, it’s down to the solicitors http://www.frugalfirsthome.co.uk/negotiations-over-its-down-to-the-solicitors/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=negotiations-over-its-down-to-the-solicitors http://www.frugalfirsthome.co.uk/negotiations-over-its-down-to-the-solicitors/#comments Mon, 04 Feb 2013 13:10:04 +0000 Nick http://www.frugalfirsthome.co.uk/?p=170 After what feels like months of waiting, we have eventually agreed the final price on the house. Here’s a very quick update: You might want to have a quick read of the last post to refresh your memory, but to summarise… we were waiting for news from the vendor’s builder to establish if work was [...]

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]]> http://www.frugalfirsthome.co.uk/negotiations-over-its-down-to-the-solicitors/feed/ 0 Almost there… http://www.frugalfirsthome.co.uk/almost-there/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=almost-there http://www.frugalfirsthome.co.uk/almost-there/#comments Mon, 07 Jan 2013 12:11:56 +0000 Nick http://www.frugalfirsthome.co.uk/?p=155 It might be long-awaited, or you might be reading this by accident; but either way, here’s an update as to ‘where we’re at’ with the house. The Homebuyer’s report took place on Christmas Eve (yes, we thought the same) – and we had the finalised report in our hands on 28th December. I’m sure you’ll [...]

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]]> http://www.frugalfirsthome.co.uk/almost-there/feed/ 1 Buying a house – Take two… http://www.frugalfirsthome.co.uk/buying-a-house-take-two/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=buying-a-house-take-two http://www.frugalfirsthome.co.uk/buying-a-house-take-two/#comments Fri, 14 Dec 2012 14:29:33 +0000 Nick http://www.frugalfirsthome.co.uk/?p=132 And so it starts again… but this time, we’re pretty sure things will turn out differently than last time! For those of you who haven’t read the previous post, I’ll summarise in a few short sentences: We found a nice house. We had an offer accepted on said house. The survey on the house was [...]

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]]> http://www.frugalfirsthome.co.uk/buying-a-house-take-two/feed/ 2 A change of direction http://www.frugalfirsthome.co.uk/a-change-of-direction/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=a-change-of-direction http://www.frugalfirsthome.co.uk/a-change-of-direction/#comments Tue, 04 Dec 2012 11:50:05 +0000 Nick http://www.frugalfirsthome.co.uk/?p=114 Ok, so it’s been around one month since I started this blog – and almost two months since the house-buying ‘saga’ began! And unfortunately, this post brings a little bit of bad news… We’ve had to pull out of buying the house. We had the structural survey back, and it revealed that the house we [...]

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]]> http://www.frugalfirsthome.co.uk/a-change-of-direction/feed/ 3 A few surveys later… http://www.frugalfirsthome.co.uk/a-few-surveys-later/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=a-few-surveys-later http://www.frugalfirsthome.co.uk/a-few-surveys-later/#comments Wed, 28 Nov 2012 15:41:57 +0000 Nick http://frugalfirsthome.co.uk/?p=108 We’re currently in what feels like the ‘no-man’s land’ of house buying. To sum it up, we had our homebuyer’s survey back and it didn’t look too pretty. We sort of knew something would come back on the report (after the vendors stated they wouldn’t move on the agreed price if we conducted a survey)… [...]

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]]> http://www.frugalfirsthome.co.uk/a-few-surveys-later/feed/ 1 Waiting for legalities… and the mortgage http://www.frugalfirsthome.co.uk/waiting-for-legalities-and-the-mortgage/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=waiting-for-legalities-and-the-mortgage http://www.frugalfirsthome.co.uk/waiting-for-legalities-and-the-mortgage/#comments Fri, 09 Nov 2012 12:23:15 +0000 Nick http://frugalfirsthome.co.uk/?p=69 Rather than leave the blog with one lonely post, I thought I’d rustle up another quick entry about the finances behind the house (the mortgage, in other words!) while we’re waiting for the legalities. We initially started looking for first-time buyer mortgages with a 5% deposit, but these searches were pretty fruitless – the only [...]

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]]> http://www.frugalfirsthome.co.uk/waiting-for-legalities-and-the-mortgage/feed/ 2 You’ve got to start somewhere… http://www.frugalfirsthome.co.uk/youve-got-to-start-somewhere/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=youve-got-to-start-somewhere http://www.frugalfirsthome.co.uk/youve-got-to-start-somewhere/#comments Tue, 06 Nov 2012 11:39:59 +0000 Nick http://frugalfirsthome.co.uk/?p=32 Writing the first post for a blog is a lot more difficult than I thought it would be… either that, or writers’ block is firmly in place. But here goes! To keep it simple, I’ll use this first post to further introduce ourselves (if you haven’t already read the about us page) and let you [...]

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