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Should I buy a new build with ground stability/subsidence
chrislocks
Posts: 4 Newbie
Our searches have come back
with ground stability / subsidence on a new build at the house or within 50m, we are just about to exchange and have paid out a lot of money already for solicitors etc and the HA has assured us that everything is ok, it’s covered by NHBC, it’s niggling me as the previous buyer pulled out and they won’t tell us why also I don’t really want to pay even more money for a structural survey,
please help I’m worried we won’t be able to sell it in the future, should we pull out and walk away ?
with ground stability / subsidence on a new build at the house or within 50m, we are just about to exchange and have paid out a lot of money already for solicitors etc and the HA has assured us that everything is ok, it’s covered by NHBC, it’s niggling me as the previous buyer pulled out and they won’t tell us why also I don’t really want to pay even more money for a structural survey,
please help I’m worried we won’t be able to sell it in the future, should we pull out and walk away ?
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Have you looked at the planning papers? They'll almost certainly include a much more detailed geotechnical report than your searches (which really are a bit of a waste of money /time when you're buying a newbuild).
You can assume that any challenging ground conditions will have been taken into account in the design.0
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