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How to Find and Buy a Building Plot by Roy Speer,Michael Dade
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    • Product code: 15972
    • ISBN: 0953348911, ISBN13: 9780953348916, 160 pages, paperback
      Published by Stonepound Books on 1998 , 2nd
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    Description of How to Find and Buy a Building Plot

    How to Find and Buy a Building Plot is the first and only comprehensive book specifically about buying land on which to build a house. It gives you all the essential information you need to locate, assess and purchase a plot. With over 65 illustrations, tables and examples, this book tells you:

    - 12 sources of plots for sale - and how to get the best out of them
    - Successful methods professional property developers use to find land
    - Essential items to organise - before you even start plot hunting
    - 10 vital points to look out for when inspecting a plot
    - How to value plots, make an offer, and negotiate your purchase effectively
    - The right way to pin down the specification of your dream home and ideal location
    - How to work out a realistic budget and the price you can afford to pay for a plot
    - Key factors you must check before buying a plot - especially planning permission
    - The best ways to find out who owns land
    - How to succeed in sales by auction and tender
    - Critical points to investigate about services, access, planning and legal restrictions
    - How three families found and bought their plots - and the key points they learned

    Finding and buying land is the most difficult task faced by people who dream of building a house. More would-be selfbuilders, or would-be small developers for that matter, fail at this point than at any other stage. It is simple and obvious - if you cannot find and buy a plot, you will never build your own home. Getting it right is the key to the whole process. Getting it wrong is at best, a severely frustrating, massive waste of time - at worst, a horrendously expensive disaster.

    Many thousands of prospective home builders start with a vision of their ideal home, overlooking the most fundamental part - finding somewhere to turn that dream into reality. With the tremendous growth and interest in selfbuild, the problem of finding the right site becomes ever more acute.

    This book is the first and only one to deal with this key subject head on, although written in unequivocally clear and accessible style, it is of as much benefit to professionals as it is to the tens of thousands of families who begin land-searching each year.

    Reviews

    "Every selfbuilder needs a plot, and this book is a splendid guide to finding the right one. Essential reading for everyone thinking about the selfbuild option for a new home."
    - Murray Armor, Author of 15 Editions of Building Your Own Home

    "This is a refreshing jargon-free approach to the subject from experts who really know what they are talking about. Thoroughly recommended."
    - Rosalind Renshaw, Editor, Build It

    Contents of How to Find and Buy a Building Plot

    INTRODUCTION

    PART 1: DEFINING YOUR REQUIREMENTS

    1. The house
    Design ideas
    Professional advice
    Detailed requirements
    House types
    Layout options
    Organising construction
    Construction methods

    2. The plot
    Size of plot
    Plot characteristics

    3. The location
    The countryside
    Towns and villages
    Area of search
    Influences on choice

    4. The budget
    The draft budget
    Finance options
    Build cost
    Plot price
    Adjusting the figures

    5. The price
    Planning permissions
    Effects on value
    Price guide
    Check list


    PART 2: FINDING THE PLOT

    6. Where to look
    Estate agents
    Auctions
    Property professionals
    Local network
    Local newspapers
    Magazines
    Selfbuild package companies
    Builders merchants
    Shows and exhibitions
    Builders and developers
    Councils
    Major landowners
    Plot finding services

    7. Hidden opportunities
    Planning records
    Local Plans
    Ordnance Survey maps
    Identifying potential plots on the ground
    The plot in your garden
    Sub-standard property
    Conversions
    Finding the owner
    Agricultural dwellings
    Check list


    PART 3: ASSESSING YOUR PLOT

    8. First considerations
    Fitting the house on the plot
    The lie of the land
    Ground conditions
    Trees and vegetation
    Obstacles
    Orientation
    Boundaries
    Adjoining uses
    The property market

    9. Acccess
    Legal considerations
    Verges
    Common land
    Ransom strips
    Highway standards

    10. Services
    Foul drainage
    Surface water drainage
    Water
    Other services

    11. Planning permission
    Studying the planning permission
    Planning officer
    Professional advice

    12 Planning restrictions
    Agricultural ties
    Article 4 directions
    Tree preservation Orders
    Conservation Areas
    Other designated areas

    13. Legal considerations
    Planning obligations
    Covenants
    Easements, wayleaves and private rights of way
    Footpaths and bridleways
    Check list


    PART 4: VALUING YOUR PLOT

    14. Factors determining value

    16. Your valuation and offer
    Check list

    15. Valuation methods


    PART 5: BUYING YOUR PLOT

    17. Buying Land
    Key players
    Private treaty sales
    Contracts
    Purchase and taking possession

    18. Making an Offer and Negotiation
    Negotiating
    Informal tenders
    Dutch auctions
    Contracts races
    Changing your offer
    Gazumping

    19. Auctions

    20. Tenders
    Buying a plot in Scotland
    Formal tenders
    Check list


    PART 6: CASE STUDIES

    21. Three case studies
    Sharon and Geoff Jones, Suffolk
    Mike and Sarah Cowling, Essex
    Peter and Karin Skinner, Sussex

    INDEX


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