Structural Engineer report

eddddy

mummyflesh wrote: »

Sorry my mistake it’s the HBR that they have a copy of that they have said has come from there solicitor which I can’t understand as I haven’t sent my solicitor or EA a copy.

Are you sure it's the specific Homebuyer's report that you requested and paid for?

If so, it would be very inappropriate for your surveyor to pass a copy to the seller or the seller's solicitor.

Or could it be a different Homebuyer's report done on the same property - for example, by a previous purchaser who voluntarily gave it to the seller?

Did the seller say it was your Homebuyer's report, or a Homebuyer's report?


(Or does your mortgage advisor work for the EA? Could that be the source of 'the 'leak'?)

AdrianC

Albala wrote: »

They can also use it as a negotiating tool with the buyer who actually paid for it.

If I'm selling, and you as buyer start saying "But the survey says...", then the first thing I'm doing is asking for a copy of it. You aren't providing a copy, I'm not negotiating over what it allegedly says. After all, it may not even say what you claim it says. Full stop, end of.

mummyflesh

Sorry I have just been told but the hubby that it is not the HB report they have it’s the Structural Engineers report. I have no idea how they have got a copy of it?

Is this normal or am I making a mountain out of a mole hill?

G_M

So... first it was the tructura Engineers report?
Then you corrected that o say it was th HBR?
Now you say again it is the SE report?


Do you really know what report you are talking about, whether it is/was yours (or a previous buyr's) indeed what you are talking about......?


Either way - you've been given the answers so not much more to be said.......

mummyflesh

For your information I was getting the wrong information my husband
Said that the thought they had a copy of the Structural Engineer s report but when I text the owner he said home buyers report hence why o said HBR. But then text back and said it was the SER!!! So yes I do know know which report I am on about!
I am just a bit confused as I haven’t sent any of my reports to my solicitor and they are saying they have got it from their solicitor.

LadyDee

For many years I worked for a Chartered Surveyor, and there was is a clause in any Report that it is for the person's use and their advisors who paid for the report.

If the vendor wants a Report then they should pay for their own.

Albala

AdrianC wrote: »

If I'm selling, and you as buyer start saying "But the survey says...", then the first thing I'm doing is asking for a copy of it. You aren't providing a copy, I'm not negotiating over what it allegedly says. After all, it may not even say what you claim it says. Full stop, end of.

And as a buyer, I'd

a) explain that my surveyer's T&Cs do not let me show it to you, only to my legal advisors
b) point out that if you want a survey, you can spend the best part of a thousand quid for your own
c) ask how a house sale can proceed if one side refuses to accept the other is telling the truth- would you want to provide me with independent attested evidence that you were not lying about anything in the house details you sent to my solicitors?
d) If I was negotiating a reduction because work needed doing, I'd happily show you quotations for the work that needed doing once I'd had people round to inspect and do quotes. That's what it's reasonable for you to ask for in such a negotiation.

Albala

LadyDee wrote: »

For many years I worked for a Chartered Surveyor, and there was is a clause in any Report that it is for the person's use and their advisors who paid for the report.

If the vendor wants a Report then they should pay for their own.

Exactly what ours says. But for some reason, some people here seem to struggle with that idea.

mummyflesh

I am not sure what to do now? Do I kick up a fuss because they have got a copy of the SER that I have paid for as I did with the HBR. Or just get on with the purchase.

Albala

As far as the house purchase is concerned, if you still want the house and can get it for the price you want, then I'd carry on.
I would, however, still want to find out how the seller got hold of the report(s). If they were sent them in error, it's not their fault, they would just assume you had authorised it, you have no legitimate complaint against the seller, and your beef is with whichever <term removed to placate another poster> sent them out without your permission. If OTOH the seller got it/them by going behind your back and asking your surveyor(s) or solicitors for it/them and got it/them that way, possibly under false pretences, (on another thread, an unscrupuous seller actually went so far as to impersonate their buyer in order to get information from the buyer's conveyancer!) then they are untrustworthy, and you and your solicitors would need to be especially careful not to trust anything they said without checking.