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Should vendor notify buyer that a property has been flooded?
TBeckett100
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we bought our house last year and I have discovered in a document on a website that my house was flooded 6 months before i bought it.
Is there a legal obligation for the vendors to have told me this?
Is there a legal obligation for the vendors to have told me this?
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Did you ask them?
Was it environmental factors or a tap?0 -
environmental flooding0
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Is it deemed at "at risk" property on the environment agency website?
Was there a flooding risk search done?0 -
I would have thought it was something your solicitor should have picked up, else what is the point of them but to do thorough checks and prevent us, their customers from making bad decisions! I would direct my wrath at them rather then the vendors, as they should have advised you of this before buying.
"Life is difficult. Life is a series of problems. What makes life difficult is that the process of confronting and solving problems is a painful one." M Scott Peck. The Road Less Travelled.0 -
Unless you bought years & years ago, the question WILL almost certainly have been asked by your solicitor in the standard enquiries before contract as well others such as subsidence etc. Check what the responses were. Your solicitor will have them on file, for sure. If they lied your solicitor will advise what the next steps are, assuming your web info to be correct. If you have mortgaged the property you will have had to take out buildings insurance and your insurer will be aware of historical environmental flooding; so you would have had questions from them too? So the webby may be wrong. Do your neighbours confirm flooding?0
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Was the property covered by a HIP or Home Report when you bought?
This is certainly one of the questions to be truthfully answered in the Property Questionnaire in the Scottish Home Report ....0 -
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Its a standard question that should have been on one of the sellers forms, check what they said. If they said yes, any good soliceter would have then asked further questions.
I sold a property that had been flooded, and was an EA in a village that flooded badly, so have seen this time after time.
I would have also thought that if it was in a flood area you would have been made aware when you took the insurance out.Pawpurrs x
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david29dpo wrote: »Only after the 6th of this mouth.
For the HIP, you mean?
Home Reports in Scotland have had the PQ since 1 Dec 2008.0 -
they ticked no. I have asked the council who published the report to come back to me with details of their sources.0
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