When did we buy our first house together?

My fiancé and I bought our first property together at the beginning of February and were initially over the moon to have a place to call our own after years of renting. We did our research – driving through the road at different hours of the day to check out the neighbourhood and looking at local crime rates among other things.

How easy is to sell house we’ve lived in for just six weeks?

Noisy neighbour is making our life hell – how easy will it be to sell house we’ve lived in for just six weeks? My fiancé and I bought our first property together at the beginning of February and were initially over the moon to have a place to call our own after years of renting.

How did we find the right house to buy?

We did our research – driving through the road at different hours of the day to check out the neighbourhood and looking at local crime rates among other things. The two-bedroom house is perfect for us, in a decent town and near the train station for our commute.

Is it weird to live with someone who owns a house?

And then he would wrestle with feelings of guilt, because what little things he still had were residing in a beautiful home, instead of a shitty studio apartment. It’s a weird place to be in — feeling so lucky, and feeling so shitty, and then feeling shitty for feeling shitty about being lucky.

When did my partner buy my house outright?

Q When my parents died, they left me money which I used to buy my house outright, with no mortgage, in November 2015. It is registered at the Land Registry in my name only. My partner pays the household bills but I pay for food and the council tax.

Can a cohabiting couple own a house together?

Jones’s problems have arisen because she bought as “joint tenants”. There are two ways of owning a property. Most cohabiting couples who buy together do so as “joint tenants” where they own the house 50/50 and, for example, the share owned by one partner would pass automatically to the other on death.

What happens to a home purchased before marriage?

A home that was purchased prior to the marriage and owned by one spouse is generally considered separate property and is not subject to division.

Who gets the house when an unmarried couple splits up?

Often a partner who has contributed less financially (say, to the down payment) believes that he or she chipped in something else of equivalent value to the property, such as labor to fix up the house.