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Would you buy a Laing Easiform property?

Harry_harrington · 2017-02-11 11:18:10

Hi all just hoping for some advice as me and my partner are going around in circles trying to make a decision on whether to go through with a purchase on what we have just found out is a laing easiform construction. The house was built in approx. 1949. It's in Bristol which seems to have lots of these types. The home…

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alumende27 Posts: 363 Forumite

13 February 2017 at 10:30AM

Just to add that our last house was one of these. Entire estates in the town made from them. No problem getting a mortgage (although i gather Nationwide won't lend on them), no problem with the survey, no problem selling.

The walls are tough to drill into. SDS drill highly recommended, but it's hardly a deal breaker.

Despite generally preferring "period" properties, I was really happy with that house. We sold to upsize and move to a different town, otherwise we'd still be there. The people who bought it off us were desperate for something other than a modern build.

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