Misrepresentation on Property Form

TBagpuss

The other thing to bear in mind is that I think you would only be entitled to claim for your actual losses. So - had the sellersdisclosed the work, what would have happened? It may be that you would have paid for a survey before exchange, asked or a disclount and been refused. You would not necessarily have got any reduction on the price or contribution to the costs of recitfying.

Of course, the sellers would struggle to prove that you would have gone ahead and purchased even if you hd known about the work and they had refused to reduce the price, but a court may take theview that the liklihood is that there would have been some hagling. Of course it does deppend a bit on how much the cost of rectifying it is (it sounds as though there are things which are potentialyl dnagerous, rather than just not done to the most recent standards, but perhaps you can confirm?)

babyblade41

My advice is get it rectified and move on.

Litigation is costly and stressful especially over something like this.

If some catastrophe had happened then obviously, but it has been averted and now you need some remedial works. Just spend your money on putting it right rather than litigation

jonnyd281

I think the new colours started to come in in April 2004, and there was an overlap, so the seller may well be telling the truth.. Not a good idea to use both colours in one circuit though.