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It difficult for me to also say this without sounding like a complete dick head, but, the house extra is buying is at the cheaper end of the scale. It's not a brand new show home with a warranty.
I can understand if you were spending 800/900k and the survey said it immediately needed a new roof at a cost of 75k. That would be a material consideration as to whether the purchase price was reasonable or not.
If it's a cheaper house then it's completely reasonable for the incoming purchaser to be alive to the fact that old houses, particularly cheaper ones, need maintenance. They need in some respects, constant maintenance. You cannot expect a seller to significantly subsidize the obligation that all house owners have in one way or another which is the obligation to maintain the house during their period of ownership. That includes fixing the roof when it eventually leaks (which might not be for a few years).
I speak from bitter experience given one of the reasons my cunt of a buyer wanted ten grand off was because "all the gutters need renewing". Those were the gutters that were just 8.5 years old and fully replaced in 2013 were they pal?