Implications of “don’t know” on estate agent form

mrbg07546

This form where this question was relates to the estate agent property information questionnaire (PIQ)

eddddy

mrbg07546 said:

Has the property ever been subject to subsidence ? If so please detail remidial work.

Can you clarify...

• What is the title of the document that has that question on it?
• Who gave you a copy of that document?

That doesn't sound like a question on the TA6 Sellers Property Information Form - which you would get via your solicitor.

If it's a form which the estate agent has provided, and asked the seller to fill in and passed to you - it won't be part of the contract, so you can't rely on anything on the form.

As a starting point see what the TA6 form says - that will form part of the contract. And/or ask your solicitor to make pre-contract enquiries about the subsidence issue.

GDB2222

Even the stupidly worded TA6 does not have a question as impossible to answer as that one. As Ed says, it's not part of the contract, so it's utterly irrelevant.

juliedee4663

GDB2222 said:

Even the stupidly worded TA6 does not have a question as impossible to answer as that one. As Ed says, it's not part of the contract, so it's utterly irrelevant.

Sadly it does. The knotweed question is virtually impossible to answer no to unless you have had the whole of your garden excavated to a depth of several feet to be sure there are no knotweed rhizomes lurking underground that you don't know about!