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FWIW I have found the best approach to be to get a standard homebuyer survey to identify any areas of concern and then get “experts”/ tradesmen in to investigate those more fully (except damp, which can fuck off)
This is the conclusion that I came to.
And save a wedge to account for the issues that can’t be identified by surveyor, like the great example above.
It’s a decent point. It you go back to the agent post survey and say “joe bloggs says this is a problem, and you know joe bloggs isn’t a wind-up merchant” then you are likely to have more luck in any discussion over price or the seller fixing it.
This is total conjecture though. The whole point of the chartered system is that they should not be wind up merchants - they are disinterested professionals who will be delivering to well understood standard.
The chummy connection to the EA is basically an anathema to me.
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The whole point of the chartered system is that they should not be wind up merchants - they are disinterested professionals who will be delivering to well understood standard.
Fine, but back in the real world, if your price chip request is backed up by an opinion from a known quantity that has seen many properties of similar construction in the local area, you are going to have more success.
NickCJ
It’s a decent point. It you go back to the agent post survey and say “joe bloggs says this is a problem, and you know joe bloggs isn’t a wind-up merchant” then you are likely to have more luck in any discussion over price or the seller fixing it.
FWIW I have found the best approach to be to get a standard homebuyer survey to identify any areas of concern and then get “experts”/ tradesmen in to investigate those more fully (except damp, which can fuck off)