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We bought a house in lockdown. Had to move due to work. Were issues seeing it more than once.
Moved in, couldn't fit in our furniture as estate agents had got measurement wrong of a room. It's had big impact on us. Can't afford all new furniture.
Another estate agent told us the room measurements on the ad we bought it from were out by more than the allowed amount and we could get compensation. This was when we were getting it valued to resell due to the issue with it being too small.
Anyone claimed for compensation and got it? How much could we get?
Reason not done it so far is because the sellers estate agent sell a lot of houses in the area and we don't want it to cause us issues if we want to stay in the area when we buy another house
Apologies for awful phrasing.
Thank you
We bought a house in lockdown. Had to move due to work. Were issues seeing it more than once.
Moved in, couldn't fit in our furniture as estate agents had got measurement wrong of a room. It's had big impact on us. Can't afford all new furniture.
Another estate agent told us the room measurements on the ad we bought it from were out by more than the allowed amount and we could get compensation. This was when we were getting it valued to resell due to the issue with it being too small.
Anyone claimed for compensation and got it? How much could we get?
Reason not done it so far is because the sellers estate agent sell a lot of houses in the area and we don't want it to cause us issues if we want to stay in the area when we buy another house
Apologies for awful phrasing.
Thank you
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Are you saying you can't afford different furniture for one room, but you can afford to move house again purely because of this issue?
https://www.theprs.co.uk/Resource/ViewFile/122
Do they not always say that if you have specific furniture you want to take you need to measure yourself to check it’s going to fit?
you won’t get compensation.
Not a hope complaining about floor sizes as you had seen the property, it wasn't something delivered as mail-order and you relied only on written instructions
PS surely more expensive to sell and buy again rather than just buying new furniture?
Or OP wants to move anyway and is looking to get money back from the agent. It won't happen.