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What Does a Local Authority search involve? please help!
jnielow
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Dear All,
Hope everyone is ok!
I have a friend who is alittle worried at the moment!, he is currently trying to sell his property (ex-council). He has had lots of views and things look promising.Where he lives there is a mixture of private owners/council tennants, the council sold their stock of houses to a private landlord. The private landlord is now undertaking external repairs to their properties ie replacing roofs/potentially re-bricking the house. Let me explain the house is of non-traditional construction with a shallow pitched felt flat roof some say it is a prefab.He was granted a mortgage on it no problem!. Rather than a skin of brick/with breese block inner it is constructed of concrete precast blocks.
Sorry the above is long-winded but my 2 main questions are
1/ When the buyers solicitors do a Local Authority search is this contacting the Council ie for them to confirm yes there are no motorways proposed to be built through house, or will they be told of what is happening with the properties owned by the private landlord. The reason I ask is this could put off potential buyers as i possibly envisage that the repairs will change the look of the landlords housing stock, leaving privately owned properties sticking out like a saw thumb having not had the repairs done.
2/ Also with regard to the buyers surveyor will he go out of his way to say dont buy property because of its construction?.He had a survey done and no defects were found at all!.
Your help would be welcomed on this matter
Thankyou
Jason Nielow
Hope everyone is ok!
I have a friend who is alittle worried at the moment!, he is currently trying to sell his property (ex-council). He has had lots of views and things look promising.Where he lives there is a mixture of private owners/council tennants, the council sold their stock of houses to a private landlord. The private landlord is now undertaking external repairs to their properties ie replacing roofs/potentially re-bricking the house. Let me explain the house is of non-traditional construction with a shallow pitched felt flat roof some say it is a prefab.He was granted a mortgage on it no problem!. Rather than a skin of brick/with breese block inner it is constructed of concrete precast blocks.
Sorry the above is long-winded but my 2 main questions are
1/ When the buyers solicitors do a Local Authority search is this contacting the Council ie for them to confirm yes there are no motorways proposed to be built through house, or will they be told of what is happening with the properties owned by the private landlord. The reason I ask is this could put off potential buyers as i possibly envisage that the repairs will change the look of the landlords housing stock, leaving privately owned properties sticking out like a saw thumb having not had the repairs done.
2/ Also with regard to the buyers surveyor will he go out of his way to say dont buy property because of its construction?.He had a survey done and no defects were found at all!.
Your help would be welcomed on this matter
Thankyou
Jason Nielow
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