Seller Lied on Property Information Form and to Solicitor Enquiries - PLEASE HELP!!

zarf2007

DiamondLil wrote: »

It does protect you; that's why it's always a good idea, when buying property, to have a proper survey carried out.

Yes but does it? when the onus is on the buyer who has been lied to to have to incur massive legal costs and waste their time?

The system in place is exactly like enforcing libel laws, fantastic if you are a millionaire but hot air if not.

zarf2007

ruggedtoast wrote: »

Why do people not get proper surveys? Why?

Every single one of these posts starts with "I just got a valuation survey because I wanted to save money..."

£300 to get a professional to provide a full report on the most expensive thing youll ever buy and they don't bother.

I have no idea about this apart to concur with the other poster. The OP needs to go and see, and pay for, an actual professional solicitor. Free advice on the Internet is not going to help a great deal.

except the survey you refer to for £300 is only useful for new builds and gives pretty much useless info for anything else. Even a full structural survey which will set up back £800+ has so many disclaimers as to cover the surveyer that you would be lucky to be successful in any claim you made against it.

Ozzuk

I don't see an issue with resale - I presume you won't be doing any further works without BR so you'll be able to truthfully answer that no work has been done - anything prior to you is all guesswork. If that is your biggest issue then just forget it and live with it, sounds more like buyers remorse to me.