Mis sold property where do I stand?

silvercar

This happened to a fried, they sold up quickly. They were lucky as they sold when there was demand for their house style and the new new builds were 18 months off.

marksoton

Nikstar07 wrote: »

Ok, that's great but how on earth is a first time buy with no experience of maps and building plans supposed to know that? We were TOLD it was a Cul-de-sac and on the map the road stops. Why would we think anything else??

I think you really need to stop dwelling, you are where you are...

Besides which no one else is going to accept responsibility for you being naive....

iammumtoone

marksoton wrote: »

I think you really need to stop dwelling, you are where you are...

Besides which no one else is going to accept responsibility for you being naive....

I do feel slightly for the OP yes they were naive a lot of people would look at the build of the road and space behind and realise what was going to happen. BUT not everyone (at least everyone who purchased on that road didn't realise this - or hoped it would happen long after they sold up)

What the OP did do is PAY someone to help with their house purchase, should a solicitor have pointed this out to them? should the solicitor have explained the searches in detail? I don't think the OP has any claim against the solicitor but some might have been more helpful than others in explaining things.

Also the sales man was clearly morally wrong describing it as a cul-de-sac. People believe what they are told.

The OP is a first time buyer, they know nothing about housing/estate layouts, yes they were naive but where/how were they suppose to find out the pitfalls of this house? I don't think you can buy a book on these things this kind of knowledge comes with experience, unfortunately the OP doesn't have that.

marksoton

iammumtoone wrote: »

I do feel slightly for the OP yes they were naive a lot of people would look at the build of the road and space behind and realise what was going to happen. BUT not everyone (at least everyone who purchased on that road didn't realise this - or hoped it would happen long after they sold up)

What the OP did do is PAY someone to help with their house purchase, should a solicitor have pointed this out to them? should the solicitor have explained the searches in detail? I don't think the OP has any claim against the solicitor but some might have been more helpful than others in explaining things.

Also the sales man was clearly morally wrong describing it as a cul-de-sac. People believe what they are told.

The OP is a first time buyer, they know nothing about housing/estate layouts, yes they were naive but where/how were they suppose to find out the pitfalls of this house? I don't think you can buy a book on these things this kind of knowledge comes with experience, unfortunately the OP doesn't have that.

Whilst i agree to an extent...

You've got to educate yourself before making a property purchase

The risks are higher when buying a relative new build ( I don't care what anyone says )

I'd be interested to know how the OP came to choose their representation ( I reckon i know the answer )

Due diligence is ultimately the purchasers responsibility

If there's open ground nearby chances are eventually in a lot of counties it'll become fair game at some point for development.

Dan-Dan

marksoton wrote: »

If there's open ground nearby chances are eventually in a lot of counties it'll become fair game at some point for development.

The area the OP bought in is well known to be ongoing , long term brownfield development

Nikstar07

marksoton wrote: »

Whilst i agree to an extent...

You've got to educate yourself before making a property purchase

The risks are higher when buying a relative new build ( I don't care what anyone says )

I'd be interested to know how the OP came to choose their representation ( I reckon i know the answer )

Due diligence is ultimately the purchasers responsibility

If there's open ground nearby chances are eventually in a lot of counties it'll become fair game at some point for development.

As you most likely guessed a choice of 3 representation options were provided to us by Persimmon with an incentive attached. If we used one of the 3 solicitors they would pay £1,400 towards our legal fees. They explained that this would help speed things up hence why there was an incentive in place but the solicitors would obviously represent our best interests and not the house builders.

I am confused as to why some people are saying it is obvious that if there is a field near by that it WILL be built on. I have lived in a house surrounded by fields my whole life as have many of my friends and family, Leighton Buzzard is renowned for it. Its a town not a city. Why would this be obvious?

As for all of the comments about knowing better and doing our homework we did to the best of our ability and received little involvement from the solicitors.
We read through our paperwork and searches but to someone without any experience in property or planning it was not clear that the new build site in question was not one of the new build sites that we were made aware of (both Taylor wimpy).

I am sure that with the experience that I have in other areas there are lots of things that will appear very obvious to me but not to others, I wouldn't condemn these people due to lack of experience.

AdrianC

Nikstar07 wrote: »

I am confused as to why some people are saying it is obvious that if there is a field near by that it WILL be built on. I have lived in a house surrounded by fields my whole life as have many of my friends and family, Leighton Buzzard is renowned for it. Its a town not a city. Why would this be obvious?

That is fairly obviously NOT a "field", in any agricultural meaning of the word, but a brownfield disused industrial site.

Davesnave

pollyanna24 wrote: »

Just out of interest, how do we find out about covenants. I live opposite a big playing field. Been there for years, but I also live just outside London (Herts so everywhere is green belt). How can I find out if this may be affected in the future?

You'd do a map search on the land at the Land Registry and buy the title documents, if no other line of enquiry on the internet or local library yielded anything. It's only a few £.

I know about this land because it was put up for sale with a commercial/residential property at a very reasonable price. The agent stressed in the details that it would not have any chance of residential planning or significant alteration. If it had, the price would have been in the millions, not just hundreds of thousands.

There is someone nearby just 'sitting on' 3 acres of prime land, well within the development boundary. However, she has hundreds of acres, so probably isn't in need of any cash injections at present!

carefullycautious

This is when it all started and the news has been full of it ever since. Where have you been?


http://www.theguardian.com/society/2002/jul/24/housingpolicy.communities

Dan-Dan

Nikstar07 wrote: »

I am confused as to why some people are saying it is obvious that if there is a field near by that it WILL be built on. I have lived in a house surrounded by fields my whole life as have many of my friends and family, Leighton Buzzard is renowned for it. Its a town not a city. Why would this be obvious?

Any , and i do mean any rudimentary research into Leighton Buzzard as a place to buy a new build would have told you that any brownfields in the area were ripe for building

You cant kid me , i know the area better than you do , you have to be honest with yourself, we both know that you have bought in an area that is a number of estates merging into each other , and that there was no way your little `cul-de-sac` was the last of it

As adrian says , these are not `fields in the sense most people understand, it is brownfield good for nothing but building estates on