Immigrating to the UK

Tman* said:
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Check out this 3 bedroom terraced house for sale on Rightmove

3 bedroom terraced house for sale in Nelson Road, London, SW19 for £695,000. Marketed by All in the postcode...SW19.com, Wimbledon
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Check out this 4 bedroom house for sale on Rightmove

4 bedroom house for sale in Kendal Road, London, NW10 for £1,000,000. Marketed by Camerons Stiff and Co, Willesden Green, London, Sales
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Found a couple of gems for you
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Haha not as bad up North but you still want a good £400k for a family home in a nice area.
 
Mephisto_Helix said:
Aye 400k gets you a very nice detached up here. Have seen some stunners while looking for a place to aim for.
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I'm not quite that fortunate in Manchester - it's an expensive place to buy, but the property bubble seems to be bursting somewhat so who knows...
 
Priapus said:
The wife and I love London. We go there as often as we can.

Went to see The Lion King in theater. What an experience. High recommend.
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London is cool to visit, I wouldnt want to live there, and if i did, i would need a lot of money
 
Talking of rentals. Would I need a credit history in the UK to get a rental?

My wife has one. But I’ll be paying the rent from my salary.

That would be problematic.
 
Priapus said:
Talking of rentals. Would I need a credit history in the UK to get a rental?

My wife has one. But I’ll be paying the rent from my salary.

That would be problematic.
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I got a rental without a credit history but they do a check on you that returns something like inconclusive. But I also agreed to pay 6 months in advanced. They are strict with right to rents, so if you can't provide that you'll be rejected immediately.
 
Priapus said:
Talking of rentals. Would I need a credit history in the UK to get a rental?

My wife has one. But I’ll be paying the rent from my salary.

That would be problematic.
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You can probably get it on your wife’s credit history (if she’s working). Where the money comes from for the rent is irrelevant - you’ll set up the standing order usually anyway. Most important thing is that you’re both employed.

I was in a sticky situation where I was made redundant and at the same time our landlady had some breakdown and wanted to move back into her place and gave us 2 months notice. We’d signed our 3rd lease just a few months earlier…

Anyway, finding a new place was a nightmare, because even though I had a fat bank balance thanks to my redundancy payout, no agencies would touch us because I didn’t have proof of employment. So, instead of taking a few months off to unwind and relax, I had to scramble to get back into the job market.
 
Priapus said:
Talking of rentals. Would I need a credit history in the UK to get a rental?

My wife has one. But I’ll be paying the rent from my salary.

That would be problematic.
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I can echo what @2023 said, basically every single rental I looked at wanted some history, I also had to offer 6 months in advance.
 
Thanks all.

And how long did it take to find a rental?

At the price range we need to rent I don’t think 6 months rental will be possible.

But my wife has a very good credit history in the UK - so we will just have her name on everything.

The other issue might be that she would have to be earning a certain amount to get a rental.

We are looking at places in the 2k mark. Due to needing a 3 bed place with a garden. Seems you can’t find much if you spend less than that.
 
Priapus said:
We are looking at places in the 2k mark. Due to needing a 3 bed place with a garden. Seems you can’t find much if you spend less than that.
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What areas are you looking at?

There are loads of affordable areas, if you can be flexible with location
 
Tman* said:
What areas are you looking at?

There are loads of affordable areas, if you can be flexible with location
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The whole of East Sussex pretty much. Family stay in Hastings. So we don’t want to be more than an hour from there.
 
Priapus said:
Thanks all.

And how long did it take to find a rental?

At the price range we need to rent I don’t think 6 months rental will be possible.

But my wife has a very good credit history in the UK - so we will just have her name on everything.

The other issue might be that she would have to be earning a certain amount to get a rental.

We are looking at places in the 2k mark. Due to needing a 3 bed place with a garden. Seems you can’t find much if you spend less than that.
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I can't speak for you area and hopefully I don't dishearten you but up north it took me about 5 weeks. I have a spreadsheet of places I'd gone to see...

It's just crazy getting a place to rent. Perhaps having no credit history worked against me, but it was frustrating.
 
prod said:
I can echo what @2023 said, basically every single rental I looked at wanted some history, I also had to offer 6 months in advance.
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We got a rental without credit history history, but they wanted 6 months payments up front as deposit
 
@Dave

Not sure if I mentioned it, but the wife and I bought a house back in June :)

Also, screw this sun setting at 4:15pm.
 
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