Estate Agents False Marketing

Printjobber

marksoton wrote: »

Please state,categorically why you can't park in the garage...

Because you need to have an allocated bay and security fob to get in.

lincroft1710

Printjobber wrote: »

Surveyor's report arrives and says Yes to 'Garage' but No to 'Private Parking'.

This indicates your surveyor has misled your daughter into believing a garage (or garage parking) is/was available. Therefore any action contemplated should be against the surveyor.

Printjobber

AdrianC wrote: »

Perhaps you could try it once? You seem to have forgotten to answer this question...

Sorry it's taking time to get around all this. You have to have an allocated parking space and a security key fob to get in. I believe this should be in the title deeds but it is not. In fact the vendors solicitor says there is no parking on his property forms.

Printjobber

Person_one wrote: »

You mentioned a garage in your first post.

If you keep responding like this to perfectly reasonable questions about the garage, why would anybody want to help you?

OK. I began to suspect that people were having me on as a newbie. I hope you can now understand the issue if yo have time to look at some of the other answers. In describing the building, the surveyor decided to tick the box 'garage' (i.e. there are underground garage spaces). He also ticked a box saying that there was no private parking in the underground garage. That was suspicious but the EA fended us off. Now the leasehold details have come through and the property description from the vendor's description, it is clear that they do not think there is parking allocated to the flat. Hence:

There is no parking. They said there was, they confirmed in writing that there was but there is no parking. There is no parking anywhere... in a garage or anywhere else.

Thanks god for cut and paste.:)

AdrianC

This would have been a LOT easier if you had been clearer... Everybody took your reference of "garage" to mean that there was a garage included, and that you didn't count that as parking - because many people do prefer to just store junk in garages.

However, the end result is the same as people explained on the first page. The EA has given your daughter, the buyer, the information their client gave them. They have no legal onus to confirm the accuracy of the information. Your daughter's solicitor's job is to do that - and they have done. In light of that, your daughter can now renegotiate the purchase price or walk away.

Now that the EA has been made aware of the inaccuracy of their client's information, though, they are under an obligation to correct their marketing materials.

bigfreddiel

Printjobber wrote: »

And it has been on the market for 10 months!!! Plenty of time to get to know the property.

You would think so but don't forget that the agent probably has a few hundred, or tens of properties on their books, they aren't going to know them that well. I know you and I would expect them to know every single property in minute detail but they don't. They don't really care if a property remains on their book for months and months, as long as they sell their quota every month everyone is happy.

Cheers fj

mrginge

Why not just park in the garage?

AdrianC

mrginge wrote: »

Why not just park in the garage?

You're a bad man.

Dan-Dan

mrginge wrote: »

Why not just park in the garage?

There is no parking. They said there was, they confirmed in writing that there was but there is no parking. There is no parking anywhere... in a garage or anywhere else. The word garage was the surveyor's description of the underground parking in which we do not have a parking bay!! THERE IS NO PARKING. LOL

marksoton

We're only in January but i'm nominating this for the most painful thread of 2016 shortlist...