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I think it’s unreasonable to expect you to pay. I paid for my own structural engineer when we bought to check the state of the very old loft conversion. What if they drop out after you paid the engineer and opened up the wall?
If you want to keep things moving, I would maybe propose splitting cost.
plantasia-
Yeah, this was my initial thought but having people come in, remove the plaster etc is not particularly convenient and would still be £800-1k split and I suppose there's a chance it's ok for now but not if they want a loft conversion? So they could still drop out. Or they could just still drop out anyway.
My thinking is either give them some money off and say we move on or drop out and relist.@Bobbo there's nothing to say if it was signed off or not, council don't keep records. But there's been a loft conversions either side of us since it's been done and no signs of movement came up in surverys. Just a vague 'that might not be done right' from the surveyor.
Tenderloin
Our buyers have gotten a bee in their bonnet about the wall knocked through between the front room and living room of victorian terrace (done sometime before 1995) bc they want to build a loft conversion. They're saying that we need to get a structural engineer in for a GSI and that we should pay for it. I'm 99% sure it's fine, it looks like every other version of this you've seen before and zero sign of movement/issue, the process would mean removing the plaster etc and so is not a neat job. Am I being unreasonable here in saying we don't want to this and certainly not pay for it? The EA says they won't pay and will pull out otherwise and so is advising we pay - I assume this is bc they have 3 properties in the chain and are trying to keep things going. I'm thinking to just re-list once the lockdown is over as these buyers just seem unreasonable at this point.