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Do I need a full Structural Survey when buying 1930s house?

united4ever · 2012-09-03 20:16:33

In the process of buying a 1930s semi. The bank who I have applied for the mortgage say the below two points: * Evidence of movement was observed in the form of some out of square window and door openings and out of level floors. This appears to be long standing and non progressive and the likelihood of further movement…

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alibabaxx Posts: 28 Forumite

5 September 2012 at 4:54PM

We are in the process of buying a 1930s house. We had a homebuyers report as it was considerably cheaper than a structural and was advised that for this age of property a homebuyers is sufficient. It did pull up a few things but after getting advice from others a lot of it is back covering by the surveyor so if anything does go wrong in the future you can't complain to them. If you have had a good look round the house and cannot see anything obvious then I wouldn't worry. The couple of hundred extra spent on a survey though did us a favour as the house was actually valued lower than the agreed offer price so we managed to negotiate another 7k off :j

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