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  • You are right, I think. However it’s worth considering that unless you really know what you are doing and are taking advice from people who really know what they are doing, as a buyer ‘underpinned’, no matter when, is not seen as a positive. It’s a huh? moment, at best.

    Hence sellers tell buyers late, after they’ve paid costs they can’t reclaim.

    One of those things where a local surveyor with bucketloads of experience would actually be helpful.

  • Certainly something to think about at least. I'm not sure when we were told but it was before spending any money. Possibly after telling the agents we were thinking of making an offer.
    Based on the way they told us I wondered at the time if a previous sale had fallen through...

  • Mrs Howard had a theory that on the first serious offer they will hide it and see what happens. It might not matter.

    If the sale does fall through because of it they then have to disclose it at offer to the next buyer as they can’t reasonably defend ‘we didn’t know guv’.

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