Vendor lied on property form about flooding three months after buying my house has flooded

Cazzy1964

user1977 said:

Jaybee_16 said:

Apologies in advance if I have misunderstood the OP, but if I understand correctly the couple referred to were two owners ago, who put the property up for sale at auction.
Your vendors bought at auction and later sold it to your son. If they bought at an auction are you certain they knew about the flood risk?

And in any event what exactly is the question about flooding? If it's "has the property ever flooded", and they already knew about the history, then I agree they ought to have said "yes".

This is what we are trying to find out .. the seller before the vendor claims he showed her the flood defences when she came round and she knew about the floods 

Cazzy1964

I’m not even sure whether the surveyor should have picked up the flood defences , my son and his wife thought they were drop down  wheelchair ramps for her husband as he had to go in a home 

Keep_pedalling

Cazzy1964 said:

I’m not even sure whether the surveyor should have picked up the flood defences , my son and his wife thought they were drop down  wheelchair ramps for her husband as he had to go in a home 

Earlier you said your son was shown how to use the flood defence, did he actually put them in place after all of the high profile weather warnings? 

Grizebeck

I think your on a hiding to nothing

EssexHebridean

First port of call I'd suggest is for your son to go back and re-check the searches he was sent when purchasing - as others have mentioned there will have been an environment search which should show details on any flooding. Checking local news reports for the relevant timescale is also a good shout - it would be highly unlikely that it wasn't mentioned.

If it was not mentioned on the searches, and he can't find anything about it on local reporting though, I'd question whether there is a degree of **** stirring going on here... 

Section62

Cazzy1964 said:

I’m not even sure whether the surveyor should have picked up the flood defences , my son and his wife thought they were drop down  wheelchair ramps for her husband as he had to go in a home 

....But what did the survey actually say?

Cazzy1964

Keep_pedalling said:

Cazzy1964 said:

I’m not even sure whether the surveyor should have picked up the flood defences , my son and his wife thought they were drop down  wheelchair ramps for her husband as he had to go in a home 

Earlier you said your son was shown how to use the flood defence, did he actually put them in place after all of the high profile weather warnings? 

Sorry, the woman before him was shown the flood defences 

Cazzy1964

Local searches came back with nothing, home buyers report said no evidence of flooding, but it definitely has flooded as the two neighbours have confirmed it has as theirs did too.

ReadingTim

Cazzy1964 said:

Local searches came back with nothing, home buyers report said no evidence of flooding, but it definitely has flooded as the two neighbours have confirmed it has as theirs did too.

Flooding is covered by the environmental search - what did that say?

Cazzy1964

No flooding