What's the norm? - mortgages and Japanese Knotweed

Davesnave

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

Hopes some more mortgage companies will be reading this....

That's a bit like me opening my back door, firing a 12 bore and hoping a pheasant will be passing by. They do pass, but there might be a better way!

Why not contact the CML direct?

moneyistooshorttomention

Now there's a thought - ie re contacting Council of Mortgage Lenders direct:)

Though I've learnt by now about the MSE Effect - eg I can think of one firm certainly that got off the ground (and is doing pretty well thank you by the sound of it) courtesy of a few MSE mentions. I've also found that often, when a link is given to a little-known webpage that its obviously got very heavy "traffic" to it for a while afterwards.

But....good point...:T

cloo

The RICS view is that lenders should take JK on a case-by-case basis and differentiate between a small stand of it and a massive wall of the stuff, so there are evidently some moves to take a more considered approach.

moneyistooshorttomention

Presumably the surveyor that stopped a house sale in its tracks recently because he spotted one little bit of JK that was only a few inches high in the garden of a property for sale was in RICS. The article said the house-owner and someone he employed had to literally get on their hands and knees looking for the bit concerned ...and did find it then.

EDIT: One bit of googling later to see what RICS says about it. Some of the information is only available to members only. But I did find an interesting article:

https://consultations.rics.org/consult.ti/japaneseknotweed/view?objectId=1228564