Home buyer report on the house I'm selling

thebunny99

Evening all,
Tomorrow morning we have the surveyor round completing a home buyers report on our house for our buyers.
They reckon it will take 2 hours! I only have a small 1 bed house.
Are there specific things they will need to see etc or can I just stay out of their way and leave them to it?
I'm nervous that they will go away with a list of "problems" and buyers may want to make a lower offer. I wouldn't be ablet to go any lower as to do so would mean not affording my new purchase. Not that I'm expecting problems as our little ol' house is ok in my eyes!

go_cat

Well are there any issues ...?

A surveyor won't put anything in his report that isn't true!

phill99

You don't need to do anything except make him some tea. He won't move furniture, pull up carpets etc

He will spend quite a bit of time outside looking at the roof, walls etc

Then he will come inside and take damp meter reading, look at the state of the floors, condition of decoration. He will go into teh loft nd check it over.

You don't have to be with him and he won't normally ask any questions.

flora48

Don't expect him to tell you anything either. The report is for your buyers. When my house was surveyed the surveyor was very cagey despite my trying to engage him in conversation. Not an easy situation when in your own home.
Good luck with the whole process.

cattie

I'd be shocked if he was there for 2hrs for a homebuyer's report in a 1 bed house! Even when I sold a 4 bed house the buyers surveyor, doing a homebuyer's, was there for less than 1 hour. I've found with the 3 bed properties I've owned & sold since that less than 1 hour is the norm.

When selling, a couple of the surveyors have actually told me when they have finished checking the house over (with no prompting from me) that everything has checked out & they have found nothing negative or anything for the prospective buyer to be concerned about, so you may just get somebody who is quiet open, with luck. It just takes a bit of the worry away when you know there is no major problem to be flagged.