You can sell your problem property. Estate agents refuse it because they are scared. Other buyers run because they want easy money. But Property Saviour? We buy problem properties every single week across England and Wales, and we have seen it all.
Structural cracks. Japanese knotweed. Artex ceilings. Asbestos. Wood worms. Damp. Mould. Sitting tenants who will not budge. Boundary wars with neighbours. Illegal extensions. Short leases. The lot.
And here is what matters: we buy as seen, we agree a price, we put it in writing, and we complete when you choose. No tricks. No price reductions. No drama.
Your property counts as a problem when mortgage lenders reject it and buyers vanish the moment solicitors reveal what is really going on.
Subsidence that cracks walls and terrifies surveyors. Japanese knotweed creeping through your garden that costs thousands to treat. Sitting tenants with protected rights who laugh when you mention leaving. Leasehold flats with 60 years left that lenders will not touch without £15,000 spent on lease extensions you cannot afford.
Then there are illegal extensions built without planning permission. Boundary disputes where next door claims your fence is on their land. Missing deeds. Unclear ownership. Properties in flood zones. Non standard construction that makes lenders run screaming.
And if you own any of this mess, you know exactly how it feels. Trapped. Ashamed. Desperate. Wondering if you will ever escape.
You will. Keep reading.
The house buying system in this country is built for perfect homes with smiling neighbours and structural surveys that come back clean.
Your property? Not perfect. Far from it.
Estate agents take one look and refuse to list it. Or worse, they agree to market it but demand you spend £30,000 fixing everything first. Money you do not have. Money you will never see back.
Even if you find an agent brave enough, mortgage lenders kill every deal. Surveyors flag the problems. Buyers panic. Deals collapse. You are back to square one, except now you have wasted six months and paid legal fees for nothing.
The stress eats at you. Every day. Every night. That property sits there draining cash for council tax, insurance, utilities. Empty or full of tenants who will not leave. And nobody wants it.
Except us.
Yes.
Stop listening to estate agents who tell you it is impossible. They mean impossible for them because they need mortgage buyers and lenders reject structural problems instantly.
Property Saviour buys houses with subsidence, cracked walls, foundation movement, bowing brickwork. We have bought houses where structural engineers said the place needed £40,000 of underpinning.
Here is how it works.
We visit. We see the cracks. We assess the damage honestly. No shocked faces. No sharp intakes of breath. We have seen worse.
Then we work out what it costs to fix, factor that into a price that makes sense for both of us, and put it in writing with a price promise. That price never changes. Not when our surveyor visits. Not when our solicitor reads the reports. Never.
You choose the completion date. We pay £1,500 towards your legal fees. You use your own solicitor. And on the day you choose, cash hits your account.
Done.
Four ways exist. Three are terrible. One works.
Estate agents refuse problem properties or demand you fix everything first. Even when they list it, deals collapse when buyers discover the truth. Months wasted. Money gone. Nothing sold.
Auctions expose every problem publicly in a legal pack that investors read while sharpening their pencils for lowball bids. You pay fees whether it sells or not. Most problem properties fail to meet reserve. Bidders know you are desperate and bid accordingly.
Online portals bring timewasters who criticise everything, offer peanuts, then vanish. Meanwhile your property sits there advertised to the world with all its problems on display.
Fake cash buyers agree a price that sounds fair. Then their solicitors investigate. Then the price drops. Then it drops again. Suddenly you are accepting 50% less than agreed because you feel trapped and they know it.
Property Saviour is different because we specialise in exactly what everyone else runs from. Problems do not scare us. They are our business.
Sell it to someone who deals with Japanese knotweed after completion, not before.
Most buyers demand you spend £5,000 to £15,000 on treatment plans, management companies, and years of monitoring before they will even consider buying. Mortgage lenders refuse to lend until knotweed is gone. Estate agents will not touch it.
Property Saviour buys properties with Japanese knotweed as seen. Growing. Spreading. Still there.
We factor the treatment costs into our offer. We arrange specialists after we own it. You get cash now, not in three years after monitoring proves the knotweed is dead.
Simple. Fast. Done.
And the price we agree at the start? That is the price at completion. The knotweed does not give us an excuse to chip you later because we knew about it from day one.
Estate agents need mortgage buyers. Problem properties are unmortgageable. End of story.
They can market it. Take photos. Stick it on Rightmove. Arrange viewings. But when surveyors flag subsidence, Japanese knotweed, short leases or structural issues, mortgage lenders say no.
Every. Single. Time.
The only buyers left are cash buyers. And estate agents are terrible at finding genuine cash buyers who will actually complete. Instead you get tyre kickers, bargain hunters and time wasters who chip the price repeatedly.
Months drag past. Nothing happens. Bills pile up. And the agent keeps calling to suggest another price drop.
Forget them.
Yes, you can. Sell it with the tenants still in place.
Sitting tenants with protected rights terrify normal buyers because eviction takes months or years, costs thousands in legal fees, and sometimes fails completely if tenants have statutory protection.
Property Saviour buys properties with sitting tenants. We complete with them in situ. Then we deal with the tenancy ourselves after purchase.
You walk away with cash on your chosen completion date. No eviction costs. No legal battles. No stress.
The tenants become our problem, not yours. And the price we agree factors in the tenant situation from the start, so there are no surprises and no price drops later.
There is no easier way to sell a house today.
Auctions sound fast. Fixed date. Guaranteed sale if the hammer falls. But dig deeper and the reality bites hard.
Your property goes into a catalogue. Every problem listed publicly. Japanese knotweed. Subsidence. Sitting tenants. Boundary disputes. Illegal extensions. All there for investors to read while they work out how low they can bid.
Reserve prices get disclosed. Bidders know your bottom line. They also know you are desperate because nobody auctions a problem property unless they have run out of options.
The hammer falls. Winning bid comes in 30% below what you hoped. You accept it because you have no choice and cannot face starting again.
Then there are auction fees whether it sells or not. Legal pack costs. And if it fails to meet reserve, you are back to square one having spent £2,000 with nothing to show.
Property Saviour gives you speed without the gamble. We agree the price privately. You know exactly what you are getting before you commit. And we complete on your chosen date with no public exposure.
Short leases under 80 years kill normal house sales dead because mortgage lenders reject them and buyers demand you extend the lease first at costs of £10,000 to £20,000.
Leasehold flats with 60 or 70 years left? Unmortgageable. Unsellable through estate agents. Trapped.
Extending the lease yourself means negotiating with freeholders who hold all the cards, paying for valuations, hiring specialist solicitors, and waiting six to twelve months for the process to complete. Assuming the freeholder cooperates, which many do not.
Property Saviour buys leasehold properties with short leases as seen. We factor the lease extension costs into our offer. You get cash now. We deal with the freeholder after completion.
No negotiating. No valuation fees. No months of waiting. Just cash in your account on the day you choose.
Fake cash buyers love problem properties because sellers feel desperate and powerless. Easy targets.
The trick starts with an inflated offer. Sounds great. You accept. Property comes off the market. You stop speaking to other buyers.
Then their solicitors investigate. Reports come back. Suddenly the problems are worse than you disclosed, even though you were honest from the start. Japanese knotweed has spread. Subsidence is severe. Sitting tenants have stronger rights than expected.
The price drops. Then it drops again. Days before completion, they demand another reduction or they walk.
What do you do? You have wasted months. Spent money on solicitors. Told family it is sold. So you accept the lower price because you feel trapped.
Property Saviour works opposite.
We assess all problems honestly at the start. We factor everything into our price. We put it in writing with a price promise. That price never changes. Not when solicitors investigate. Not when surveyors visit. Never.
Because we are not here to trick you. We are here to buy your problem property and give you certainty.
Spend ten minutes on Companies House before you accept any offer. It could save you months of pain.
Search the company name. Check when it was incorporated. Brand new companies with no track record? Red flag. They might vanish when problems get complicated.
Look at the directors. Search their names individually. String of dissolved companies behind them? Phoenix buyers who walk away when things get difficult.
Now the big one: the charges register.
This lists every mortgage, loan and charge secured against the company. If the buyer claims to have cash ready but the register shows multiple charges from banks and bridging lenders, they are lying. They need finance. And when lenders discover your property problems, their finance collapses. Your sale dies.
Property Saviour has clean, transparent Companies House records you can verify yourself. Minimal charges. Solid trading history. Proof we have been buying problem properties for years.
Check us. Then compare us to every other buyer who makes promises.
Transparency. You deserve it.
We buy problem properties at around 70% of realistic market value. Not 70% of what it would be worth perfect. 70% of what it is worth right now, problems and all.
Here is exactly where the money goes.
Legal costs: 2% covering solicitors, searches, Land Registry fees and the complex legal work problem properties need.
Holding costs: 3% including insurance, council tax, utilities, security and cleaning while we own it.
Stamp duty: 5% which we must pay to HMRC. No way around this.
Resale costs: 5% covering estate agents and solicitors when we eventually sell after fixing problems.
Gross profit: 15% before tax to cover overheads, staff, risk and the capital we have tied up.
Add those up. 30% total. That leaves 70% for you.
Not a cheeky offer. A fair reflection of true costs and commercial reality.
And what do you get in return? Immediate certainty. No repairs. No legal battles. No requirement to fix anything. Guaranteed completion on your chosen date. Cash in your account.
That peace of mind is worth the difference to thousands of sellers who just want out.
Steve inherited a nightmare.
Detached house in Skipton. Japanese knotweed along the boundary. Sitting tenants with protected rights. Boundary dispute with next door that had been raging for twelve years.
Four estate agents visited. All four refused. They told him to treat the knotweed, evict the tenants, and resolve the boundary dispute first. Cost to do all three? North of £35,000. Money Steve did not have.
An auctioneer valued it at a third of what he hoped. Said it would probably fail to meet reserve because of the complications.
Steve called us on a Tuesday afternoon. Defeated. Trapped. Ashamed.
By Friday we had visited, assessed all three problems without judgment, and made a fair offer that factored everything in. Price in writing. Price promise. Never changes.
Steve needed nine weeks to sort probate. We agreed a completion date that fitted his timeline. We paid £1,500 towards his legal fees. He instructed his own solicitor.
Sale completed on the exact day agreed. Cash paid. Steve walked away.
We dealt with the knotweed, the tenants and the boundary dispute after completion. Our problem now, not his.
Steve told us later he finally slept properly for the first time in months. The weight had lifted. Nobody judged him. We just bought it and let him move on with his life.
| Method of sale | Value achieved | Fees | Timeframe | Is sale guaranteed? |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Estate agents | 90–95% | 1–5% | 3–6 months | No – one in three sales collapse |
| Auctioneers | 70–80% | 2% plus | 2–3 months | No – half of properties don’t sell |
| Property Saviour | 70–80% | £0 | 10–28 days | Yes – 99% success rate |
Leicester. House with subsidence so severe three surveyors called it unmortgageable until £45,000 of underpinning was completed. We bought it as seen. Completed in nineteen days. Couple moved into a smaller home and started fresh.
Reading. Leasehold flat with 62 years left on the lease. No lender would touch it. Estate agents said spend £12,000 extending the lease first. We bought it with the short lease as seen. Completed in four weeks. Seller walked away with cash.
Wolverhampton. Sitting tenants with protected rights. Twenty years in residence. Refused to budge. We bought it with tenants in situ. Completed to his chosen timescale. Dealt with the tenancy ourselves.
Every seller received the exact price we promised. No reductions. No arguments. No games.
Specialist cash buyers buy problem properties. But quality and honesty vary wildly.
Legitimate buyers have cash readily available, transparent Companies House records with minimal charges, proven track records, and honest pricing that factors problems in from the start.
Property Saviour ticks every box.
Genuine cash. No mortgages. No chains. Transparent Companies House records you can verify. Trading history you can check. Written price promises we honour.
We let you use your own solicitor. We pay £1,500 towards your legal fees. We complete on your chosen date.
Avoid buyers with charges all over their Companies House register. Avoid recently formed companies with no history. Avoid anyone who promises the moon then chips the price when solicitors reveal problems.
Check them. Then check us. Then decide.
Here is how the four methods stack up when your property has serious issues.
| Method of sale | Problems must be fixed first | Price certainty | Speed to complete | Stress level |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Estate agent | Yes, or they refuse listing | Low, buyers chip heavily when problems revealed | Many months, high collapse risk | Very high |
| Auction | No, but exposed publicly | Uncertain, often shockingly low | Fixed date, no guarantee it sells | High |
| Fake cash buyer | No, but used to justify price drops | Low, price slashed repeatedly | Starts fast, delays common | Very high |
| Property Saviour | None, we buy as seen | Price promise in writing, never changes | Your choice, days to months | Low |
The choice is obvious when you see it like this.
Yes. Legally you must disclose all known problems.
Consumer Protection from Unfair Trading Regulations 2008 make it illegal to hide defects. Structural problems. Japanese knotweed. Boundary disputes. Illegal building work. Planning issues. Flooding history. Everything material must be disclosed.
Hide problems and buyers can sue you after completion for misrepresentation, rescind the contract, or claim damages.
Property Saviour encourages full disclosure because we buy as seen and problems do not change our offer. Honesty protects you legally and speeds the sale because solicitors find no surprises.
Tell us everything upfront. We factor it into our price promise from day one. Then we complete with no dramas.
You know when your property crosses the line.
Estate agents refuse it. Mortgage lenders reject buyers. Solicitors warn about complications. Sitting tenants will not leave. Surveys reveal subsidence or invasive plants. Neighbours dispute boundaries through lawyers.
If any of that sounds familiar, your property is a problem property.
And Property Saviour buys properties with every one of these issues. Nothing is too big for us.
Six steps. Dead simple.
We have bought hundreds of problem properties. Japanese knotweed. Sitting tenants. Subsidence. Illegal extensions. Short leases. Boundary disputes.
Nothing puts us off.
Stop waiting. Stop hoping estate agents will find a miracle buyer. Stop trusting fake cash buyers who promise the world then chip you at the last second.
Your problem property is draining you financially and mentally every single month you delay.
Property Saviour buys problem properties as seen across England and Wales. Subsidence. Japanese knotweed. Sitting tenants. Short leases. Boundary disputes. Illegal extensions. All of it.
We agree a fair price that factors in all known problems. We put it in writing with a price promise. We let you choose the completion date. We pay £1,500 towards your legal fees so you use your own solicitor.
No repairs. No evictions. No legal battles. No auctions. No drama.
Just certainty, dignity and cash in your account on the day you choose while we handle all complications after completion.
Request a call back now. Tell us about your problem property. And let us show you how we turn impossible situations into completed sales that other buyers run from.
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