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Seller lied about major works
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In my experience, Councils don't unnecessarily extract the urine over their service and maintenance charges.
Council Freeholders (I have 2 such flats) serve statutory notices on freeholders to advise any intention to commission works of improvements, then tell you when they are about to tender specific jobs, then give estimates of your share when known , and finally bill you when done. It's a long-winded, but totally transparent process.
Your solicitor should specifically check if any such statutory notices have been served, but being a suspicious type, I simply rang the Council Housing Technical Officers prior to offering on my recent purchase. They confirmed that a rolling programme of work was in the pipeline but that my block was way in the future.
If your vendor lies, even by omission, or if your solicitor fails to check- especially if you ask 'em to, they are liable and yes, I'm sure you could take action against them.0 -
If your vendor lies, even by omission, or if your solicitor fails to check- especially if you ask 'em to, they are liable and yes, I'm sure you could take action against them.
There is no contract as yet, no you cannot.
Any civil action might be based on the consequences of them intentionally misleading you if you can prove it, which is very hard, and the Court will say that this is the unpleasant but often commonplace process of buying a home in which there are, intentionally, several lines of enquiry rather than the vendor.
And the legal costs to litigate over incurring say £1000 so far?
It's really hard for the OP but that's how some people do business or just do not know how to say " I dont know" for fear of losing a buyer.
All's fair in love war and house selling....hence caveat emptor :eek:Stop! Think. Read the small print. Trust nothing and assume that it is your responsibility. That way it rarely goes wrong.
Actively hunting down the person who invented the imaginary tenure, "share freehold"; if you can show me one I will produce my daughter's unicorn0 -
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Ivana_Tinkle wrote: »I think this varies enormously from council to council, because in my experience (Southwark and Lambeth) they really, really do!
Thanksfully it's neither of them. I deliberately avoided Lambeth partly because of that sort of thing. That and the council tax!Saving for deposit: Finished! :j
House buying: Finished!
Next task: Lots and lots of DIY0
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