EA/vendors want offer NOT subject to survey...?

Ithaca · 20 November 2015 at 2:42PM

Keely_lewis wrote: »

We were the other side of the deal. We took an offer £1000 under asking even though the house had been on market less than 24 hours so we stipulated that we would not negotiate again after a survey. BUT we would have done because we wanted to sell. Thankfully everything was fine with survey and the original offer still stands as we are on our way to exchange. I agree with other posts - just agree to their terms but if anything comes up survey that is worrying renegotiate. Good luck.

When we sold in the summer we agreed a reduction of £4k after the mortgage valuation survey came in under the asking price offer we'd accepted... the asking price was fair (just a notoriously cautious local surveyor) but our buyers had topped out their deposit so couldn't match the shortfall.

We made it very clear that any issues identified in the survey up to a value of £4k wouldn't be negotiated on and we pretty much stuck to it (£350 to fix some localised damp in the kitchen? Already covered in the price reduction. £500 to sort out the pointing on the back wall? Already covered in the price reduction. And so on.)

I did give in on a very last-minute request for a £60 indemnity policy for a missing chimney breast, but only because it would have delayed the move by a week and we'd already put everything in boxes.

Soot2006 · 20 November 2015 at 5:39PM

Sounds like they just want to make sure you have the £10k over asking price that you've offered to pay for the house. Makes sense to me that they want to make sure you can genuinely proceed with your offer.