Surveyor told neighbour value?!

flower_72

What I'd like to know is the actual answer from the surveyor. Did he actually said, the place is worth between £100 and £150k.
Or did he say, I will value the place at £129 500 for remortgage purposes (or whatever it is you had it valued for)
No need to get anyone's knickers in a twist about it.:D
I don't see how it is a breach of data protection at all either. No personal info was given, just info available to anyone to see.

Premier_2

bubblesmoney wrote: »

see this on the information commissioners website



the surveyor is obviously processing data about the house he/she surveyed. banks and financial institutions are covered by the data protection act.

since this survey was for renting a property, guess it was for a valuation for remortgage / BTL mortgage. the property is owned by the OP and his/hers finances are his data, the surveyor was asked to do a service for which the OP either directly / indirectly pays for.

just like i wouldnt expect my chartered accountant not to be discussing valuations of my shares investments etc with any third party, similarly i expect any person i contract (directly or indirectly) and pay for their services to keep the details confidential.

the surveyor doesnt have any sense or propriety at the least. obviously he/she was in the wrong. all the more irritating is the fact that these details were discussed with someone the OP does not get along with, it is immaterial that the surveyor doesnt know the interpersonal relationship. if the neighbour wanted a valuation then they should have paid for one and got the OPs permission for a valuation. otherwise they could have had their property valued at their convenience for knowing comparable values or used rightmove / nethouseprices to see approximate valuations in public domain.

what i posted was a personal view. i am not a lawyer, so what i said was my interpretaion of what i had read. it may be right or wrong or others views might differ. if it was me in the OPs situation, i would let the surveyors superiors know about this impropriety on the surveyors part in writing and use their impropriety handling my data as a valid reason for not being charged for the valuation, how ever if the valuation was free (indirectly paid by the OP via bank charges for remortgaging for BTL) then i would complain to bank in writing about the impropriety by their appointed surveyor and point out to them their responsibilities as the the data protection act and why their surveyor was discussing details about the OPs property with other third parties and ask for appropriate compensation pending reffering the complaint to RICS and information commissioner. dont know whether i would actually do this, depends on how !!!!ed off i would be with the surveyor and neighbour :rotfl:

Personal information is information about you. It can be your name, address or telephone number. It can also be the type of job you do, the things you buy and the place you went to school.

http://www.ico.gov.uk/for_the_public/your_personal_information.aspx

...nothing about the valuation of a house there.

tbs624

clutton wrote: »

chill out everyone !!.......... chill out.....

Have ordered you a copy of this Clutton:http://www.littlebrown.co.uk/Title/9780749951597 - perhaps the sun affected your vocab today, not just the minds of the "Sue them, sue them, I say" posters.....

Doozergirl

tbs624 wrote: »

Have ordered you a copy of this Clutton:http://www.littlebrown.co.uk/Title/9780749951597 - perhaps the sun affected your vocab today, not just the minds of the "Sue them, sue them, I say" posters.....

Maybe you need to take clutton's advice too!

Don't sweat the small stuff

tbs624

Doozergirl wrote: »

Maybe you need to take clutton's advice too!

Don't sweat the small stuff

Nope... you're absolutely right Doozer - it's best not to, because at the end of the day you need to keep sight of the big picture 24/7....................................:rotfl:

clutton_2

give it up tbs - this thread aint rocket-science !!!!!


loved the book !