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Searches for Flat Purchase
FataVerde
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What searches have you all had for a flat/maisonette purchase (share of freehold with just one other co-freeholder)? My solicitor is very lax about this. He sent me the results of the Local Authority Search without any explanation, then dismissed its importance over the phone. He seems to suggest there is no need to carry out other searches. I'll push him to do other searches and I already regret working with this solicitor, who was otherwise quite fast, but worry he is terribly lax about everything. Thanks!
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Searches I had included local planning, flood risk, soil/contamination issues (there's a word for it I can't think of now!). I'd have thought your lenders would demand them?
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Lenders don't generally insist on more than the local authority/water search.NameUnavailable said:Searches I had included local planning, flood risk, soil/contamination issues (there's a word for it I can't think of now!). I'd have thought your lenders would demand them?
Desktop contamination/flood risk searches aren't always a great deal of use, they tend to throw up more question marks than answers.1 -
That's what my solicitor says. He's local and very knowledgeable and says the report will say there is risk of subsidence in London and SE anyway. There is a government map of flood risk and there is risk of flash flooding but that's literally everywhere in that neighbourhood in London. I'm first floor so I guess I wouldn't be so directly affected.user1977 said:
Lenders don't generally insist on more than the local authority/water search.NameUnavailable said:Searches I had included local planning, flood risk, soil/contamination issues (there's a word for it I can't think of now!). I'd have thought your lenders would demand them?
Desktop contamination/flood risk searches aren't always a great deal of use, they tend to throw up more question marks than answers.
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I love this forum!One minute you're reading complaints about a solicitor being too 'lax', the next the complaint is about a solicitor who is too thorough!
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canaldumidi said:I love this forum!One minute you're reading complaints about a solicitor being too 'lax', the next the complaint is about a solicitor who is too thorough!
As long as it's not the same solicitor! We should swap!
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