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Lack of building regulations
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Owain_Moneysaver wrote: »Sounds like it was clearly described with the intention prospective buyers would believe it was a habitable room and act on that misunderstanding.
Threaten the estate agent with the Property Misdescription Act and Trading Standards.
Agreed! As soon as you mention "room" in particulars it has to be suitable for use as an inhabitable room.
It's the EA's job to ask for copies of any Planning permission and/or Building Regs on any extensions/loft conversion etc etc.My home is usually the House Buying, Renting and Selling Forum where I can be found trying to (sometimes unsucessfully) prove that not all Estate Agents are crooks. With 20 years experience of Sales/Lettings and having bought and sold many of my own properties I've usually got something to say
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Thank you. That makes me feel a lot better, we've been made to feel like the spawn of satan by the estate agent (there have been numerous issues with them dating back to the very start when they said they could guarantee our offer was accepted if we used their financial advsior). It does indeed come down to safety for us and yes the use of the word room - which is still being used now as it's back on the market does make it seem like it should be just that.0
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thatrogersguy wrote: »We've pulled out of the purchase now so begin looking again.
Good on you. Nice to see someone sticking up for themselves and not being held to ransom by an unreasonable/deceitful estate agent and vendor.0 -
thatrogersguy wrote: »Thank you. That makes me feel a lot better, we've been made to feel like the spawn of satan by the estate agent (there have been numerous issues with them dating back to the very start when they said they could guarantee our offer was accepted if we used their financial advsior). It does indeed come down to safety for us and yes the use of the word room - which is still being used now as it's back on the market does make it seem like it should be just that.
To describe a room as a room is not incorrect.
If they told you it had building regs or planning approval when it did not, that would be deception.0 -
ooh - I am in the opposite position! well, my parents are, trying to sell their house with loft conversion circa 1974, no papers, seems I need to research getting a cert of conformance!0
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Catzoo, building regulations aren 't retrospective. Alterations need to be done to regulations in force at the time, in your case 1974. If building regs were retrospective, hundreds of thousands of houses across the country would be thought of as unsafe or uninhabitable. They aren't.0
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