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Help ! Unable to sell flat
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Make the balcony fire proof and try again is the only answer, things are on hold for a while anyway so what difference does it make?0
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I suspect the issue is that all the balconies need to be fireproof - doesn't really help if you're the only fireproof flat in the block.Crashy_Time said:Make the balcony fire proof and try again is the only answer0 -
True, and not all occupants will want to fireproof theirs probably? Shouldn`t it be a legal requirement now though?0
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The OP states that he lives in Scotland. It is a legal requirement for the seller to engage and pay a surveyor for a "scottish home buyers report."
Which is then available free, to all interested buyers. The surveyor should have picked this up?
But personally, a little bit of wood decking on a small exterior balcony, would I hope not be to much of a fire risk.
How many properties have wooden flat roofs covered in tarred / bituminous felt? Is that not a fire risk?
The world is not ruined by the wickedness of the wicked, but by the weakness of the good. Napoleon0 -
I suspect the issue is that the surveyor has picked up on it, mentioned it in the HR, and that's what has caused buyers' lenders to recoil in horror (they wouldn't normally be instructing separate surveys).Hasbeen said:The OP states that he lives in Scotland. It is a legal requirement for the seller to engage and pay a surveyor for a "scottish home buyers report."
Which is then available free, to all interested buyers. The surveyor should have picked this up?0 -
Perhaps. But I have found that here, depending on where prospective buyers go for mortgages, a home buyers report from a surveyor that is not on their approved list will not be considered and the would be purchaser still has to pay for a separate report from one of the lenders approved surveyors.davidmcn said:
I suspect the issue is that the surveyor has picked up on it, mentioned it in the HR, and that's what has caused buyers' lenders to recoil in horror (they wouldn't normally be instructing separate surveys).
Perhaps the OP will clarify that this was brought up as a cause for concern in the initial survey?
It would be classed as a Category 3 in report?
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The world is not ruined by the wickedness of the wicked, but by the weakness of the good. Napoleon0 -
Lenders are most likely just looking for any excuse to withhold funds at the moment, that is my take anyway.0
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