Sellers refusal to budge on price

eddddy

sillyhilly wrote: »

With the greatest respect intended, that is utter rubbish.

Unfortunately, it's not.

I frequently instruct surveyors and they are open about this. They will generally agree that the reason for hiring them is that they will save you more money than they charge you.

(Just like many other professional advisers that you hire.)

Here are a few random surveyors who allude to this on their public websites. I suspect that they would be more open, if you asked them face to face:

Depending on the outcome of the Level 3 RICS Building Survey and severity of any issues we may identify, you might be able to agree a reduction on your offer price with the vendor after obtaining estimates for corrective building work to be carried out. This could mean that the cost of obtaining the Building Survey is recouped during the process - and more.

Link: http://www.ppcsurveyors.com/level-three-rics-building-survey.html

The additional cost of the Home Buyers Report can be quite easily recouped if the surveyor is able to highlight a defect where it enables you to negotiate a price reduction to compensate for the required remedial work

Link: http://www.1stassociated.co.uk/articles/outstandingbuildingsurveys.pdf

The price of an average survey can quickly be recouped by the potential cost of defects that may have gone un-noticed.

link: http://angusmossmrics.co.uk/whois.html