Money Box Live: How to Buy a Home

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4.2 • 804 Ratings

🗓️ 6 November 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Buying a home is legendarily one of the most stressful events in life so today on Money Box Live we're going to try to take some of the pressure off by talking you through how it should work.

Obviously there's much more to it than finding your dream house and a lot that can happen between viewing a property and getting the keys.

We talk to first-time buyers on the property hunt in Stockport in Greater Manchester, and our panel of experts, Simon Gammon, Head of Finance at Knight Frank and Beth Rudolf from the Conveyancing Association joins Felicity Hannah to take questions from listeners.

Presenter: Felicity Hannah Producer: Craig Henderson/Sarah Rogers Editor: Sarah Rogers

This episode was first broadcast on Weds 9th October 2024.

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0:00.0	On a winter's night in 1974, a crime took place that would obsess the nation.
0:07.0	It was an extraordinary news story.
0:09.0	The story of an aristocrat, Lord Lucan, who's said to have killed the family Nanny,
0:14.0	mistaking her for his wife, then somehow just disappeared.
0:18.0	One of the great mysteries in English criminal history. We're still looking for Lucan.
0:21.6	It's honestly one of the most powerful stories of my lifetime.
0:25.6	I'm Alex Fondunzelman.
0:26.6	This is The Lucan Obsession.
0:28.6	Listen on BBC Sounds.
0:32.6	BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts.
0:35.6	Hello, more than a million homes will be bought and sold just in 2024.
0:41.3	That's millions of buyers, of sellers, of solicitors and of agents, all working to accomplish
0:46.5	that end point where the new owner picks up the keys.
0:49.7	But as we will hear on this Moneybox Live podcast, there is a lot that can happen between viewing a property and actually getting those keys, especially if the process falls through.
1:00.4	It's an absolute rollercoaster at the best of the times, but when you then get a phone call to be castor to say that all those emotions have been a waste of time and that the agreement has been reneged, then it's
1:11.7	just, it's heartbreaking.
1:13.0	Buying a home is legendarily one of the most stressful events in life.
1:17.4	So today, we're going to try and take some of the pressure off by talking you through
1:21.4	exactly how to buy a home.
1:23.8	Before we meet today's experts, let's hear from the front line of house buying.
1:27.2	I spent the morning in Stockport with Clive Tattersoll, the managing director of Jules Estate
1:32.3	Agents, as he showed potential buyers around some of the properties on his books.
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