corpy wrote:
Hi all. Sorry if this question has been asked loads of times. Did look
at the forum a could not see any posts.

Im looking at buying the bottom half of my naibours garden.

His garden is overgrown and according to him he has not touched it for
15 years. there is no grass left just 6ft tall stingers and over grown
trees. when we moved in he allowed us to go into his garden to cut
down some trees and bushes so my garden could get some sunlight.

I know he has sold half of his house to the bank. so what would i do
about buying the land.

My garden is currently 723sqm . The land i would like to buy is
323sqm. taking my total garden space to 1/4 acre.

I have looked around online for a rough price. All i could find in my
area was rough prices of land. about £11,000 per acre. so by my
calculation it would be roughly £916.00 to buy his land. but this
seems very very cheep to me. acre been over 4,000sqm so roughly goes
into it 12 times.

there is only 3 houses on the road with full length gardens. as the
other gardens was purchased for houses to be built on. this would take
his garden size down to the same as all the others.

any information small or large would be great-full thank you

Any advice on what to do. ?

The price per acre varies greatly with the size of the parcel, the quality
of the land and the situation. To pick some figures out of the air for
illustration, here a 5 acre property might be $200,000 ($40,000 per acre)
and a 50 acre property might be $500,000 ($10,000 per acre). Go to local
real estate agents and a check sale advertisements on the internet to get a
feel for going rates in your region. See if you can check into historical
records of real estate transactions to find out what similar parcels sold
for in the last few years.

Check the title(s) that your neighbour holds. It makes a big difference
whether his land is already subdivided or not. I don't know the law in your
area but here a new subdivision would require surveying and local government
approval which will add to costs, assuming that they will give approval.


Avoid making any offers until you have done your homework.

David