Owning your own home

so if the previous buyer was maxing their borrowing or if the surveyor down-valued it by £25k it may have been enough to stop them getting the mortgage they needed.

Those are the scenarios that I would have assumed, my point was more that an overnight drop in price doesn't have to mean there's something disastrous wrong with the house. But @ExTra seems to have the right approach to it, far more than when we bought our place, I was fucking clueless.

Buying property in this country is such a shit show.