Need some help on a legal matter

SuperHan

angieb1606 wrote: »

"The house on the plan didn't have a garage when we went to view it we said we wouldn't be able to go with it as the garden was to small if we put a shed on it we would lose a fair chunk of the garden, they said that they could build a garage on the side so we wouldn't lose the garden and we signed a reservation agreement that included the price of the garage, we kept checking even right up to us selling the house that yep garage was fine and they went along with it we were confused as to why they would pull out so close to completion until they made the phone call to ask if we wanted it without the garage, i then got the valuation report from Halifax and surprise surprise no garage, so i wondered if this would come under consumer policy as mis selling.

Unless you exchanged contracts you're unlikely to have any comeback. People incur costs all the time on house sales that fall through - it's an unfortunate symptom of our flawed property sale/purchase system.

That said, I am not a lawyer so who knows if there is some legal right you have that I'm not aware of.

Even if this was mis-selling under consumer law, you haven't bought anything so by definition you can't have been mis-sold something.

gettingtheresometime

angieb1606 wrote: »

"The house on the plan didn't have a garage when we went to view it we said we wouldn't be able to go with it as the garden was to small if we put a shed on it we would lose a fair chunk of the garden, they said that they could build a garage on the side so we wouldn't lose the garden and we signed a reservation agreement that included the price of the garage, we kept checking even right up to us selling the house that yep garage was fine and they went along with it we were confused as to why they would pull out so close to completion until they made the phone call to ask if we wanted it without the garage, i then got the valuation report from Halifax and surprise surprise no garage, so i wondered if this would come under consumer policy as mis selling.

So if I read this right the house didn't come with a garage as standard but someone (the sales negotiator?) said that they could build you a garage (for an additional price?). I would love to have been a fly on the wall when the engineer was asked if that could happen

Have you got this in writing as I really do think this is going to be crucial to your case.