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Meh. Had called Gales estate agents Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday to arrange the viewing for The Woodlands today - explicitly said several times that my dad was driving down from Norfolk to see it, so I needed to know if it fell through so he didn't waste a journey. Got there at midday, a different agent was there from another company, who let us in. Gales called ten minutes later and asked if I still wanted a viewing. They weren't even sending anyone. I told them to stick it.
Anyway, the second agent also mentioned subsidence at The Woodlands, as had the other one last week. She couldn't tell me how bad it was though. She also told us that the flat was up for £125k, then when I started saying that I wasn't really interested as the subsidence issue kept being mentioned, she told me that the owner would take £112k...
On to the other flat I saw today (didn't really like it), where the agent from yet another company heard me mention The Woodlands and went on a huge rant about how they're best avoided, that there had been subsidence problems for around 15 years, that many banks won't lend on it and surveys often came back with big warnings. Basically he said that lots of people own there who can't sell and lots of people try to buy there and waste money on surveys before finding out the truth. Notorious for it, apparently.
So... back to square one I guess.