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I don't think it's always that straight forward though.
Sure people might know their property, and that there's nothing major. But as a new buyer how do you know what's 'just routine', and also what's the cumulative total? If all buyers knew there was say £15k cumulatively of routine maintenance upfront would they have made the offers they did?
Let's take this case as an eg. Sounds like the purchaser was trying it on for routine maintenance, right?
But whatshischops has basically said that there is actually a damp problem. And the solution is what?
... ripping the floor up, smashing out a load of concrete, stripping the wall back to the tanking, redo the floor, redo the tanking, replaster the wall, repaint?
What's the hive's finger in the air quote for that work?
So actually the survey probably flagged damp that isn't routine maintenance.
Happy to be corrected if I'm missing something.
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Counter argument.
If the survey doesnt throw up anything major, I don't think you should renegotiate based on standard home maintenance needs. If you want perfect, buy a new build and enjoy running through snagging.
Question, do people negotiate on new builds or just accept the asking price?