My neighbours want to buy a bit of my garden - who do I ask to value it?

[KBear]

I haven't a clue where to start with this. They want to square off their garden by buying an odd-shaped bit of my garden. Do surveyors value property?

ta MT

do you have to apply for subdivision rights first though?

what's that then?

I think you can inform the land registry jointly, to have the new boundary registered.

Contact a local Chartered Surveyor, they'll be able to guide you through the whole process, if you want.

We've just done this with next door. Get a surveyor and you may also need a solicitor (get the same one - it will work out cheaper) and then you have to inform the land registry. The neighbours who want the land should really pay all your fees. This may put them off it could come to £500+ and then the cost of the land.

Thanks so much - I was assuming they would pay the fees as they want the land, we're not offering it.

Hmm, wondering how much a strip of my garden is worth and what I can spend it on!!

Kbear you might be disappointed unless it's a lot of land because it is only worth anything to you or your neighbour so essentially just what they are willing to pay.

Well unless they make it worth my while they can't have it because it involves quite a lot of unheaval on our part, moving the wendy house and a new wall will have to be built. We will have to have discussions!

Thanks for all your help.

good luck KBear!

Get a valuation of your house with & without the extra bit. It's worth (to you) the difference in valuations. It may be worth more to the neighbours (their house may go up in valuation more than yours would go down iyswim)

And on the other hand I just found this

The price that homeowners in central London are prepared to pay for a slice of someone else's garden is astonishing. In Holland Park, says Peter Young, of John D. Wood, three homeowners have just paid £9 million for a strip of land, approximately 150ft by 100ft, in order to extend their gardens. At nearly £30 million an acre, they must be just about the most expensive gardens in the world.

My neighbours want a bit of our garden too and we could use the money but I didn't think he would pay £40,000 for a ten foot strip, but maybe I am wrong...!

Sadly I'm not in Holland Park!

Me neither!

Kbear - did you get it valued???