Originally posted by AtW
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Another stealth tax???
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Originally posted by John GaltBut this has just passed the burden of the survey costs from the buyer to the seller .
I Certainly would not jsut accept this. I'd always want a survey that said more that 'I looks Ok from across the road"
I don't thik this wil stop gazzumping either, it willjust speed up gazzumpig as potential buyers will have more informatino to hand immediatly so can get their fat contractor walletts and upset the poorer peopl;e in society.
Note to pedants: I know I can't type and spell at the same timeYour parents ruin the first half of your life and your kids ruin the second halfComment
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Originally posted by threadedThey have them in Denmark. Wish I'd read mine a bit closer and got the conversion from hectares to acres the right way round. Wanted a big garden, ended up buying a big farm (came with staff luckily).Comment
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I'm not keen. Not many buyers would trust a survey commissioned by the seller. And nor would the lender. So they will have to commission their own. And if the house takes time to sell, the original survey could be a year or more out of date. So a new one would be needed.
But it does have the advantage that the house will not go on the market without some assurance that it is okay. I had to sell my late mother's house, and the first buyer pulled out when his house failed the survey after he had found a buyer.
I agree that Gazumping laws are needed. Apparently you can drop out of a sale right up until you exchange contracts.Comment
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Its great
Well they are OK in principle
So Tony,.....
Under you we have eroded civil liberties, turned a foreign reserve surplus into a deficit, bloated public services with no improvement, disincentivised eutrapeneurship, increased taxes by stealth, involved us an illegal war, let crime increase..... BUT .... we now have HIP so everything is OK. Thanks dudeThere are no evil thoughts except one: the refusal to thinkComment
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Originally posted by John GaltBut this has just passed the burden of the survey costs from the buyer to the sellerComment
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Originally posted by threadedThey have them in Denmark. Wish I'd read mine a bit closer and got the conversion from hectares to acres the right way round. Wanted a big garden, ended up buying a big farm (came with staff luckily).
Do you race your 'lambos' around a dirt track like that lottery-winning 'king of chavs' ?
You're so full of sh17 it hurts
You've come right out the other side of the forest of irony and ended up in the desert of wrong.
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Originally posted by FungusI'm not keen. Not many buyers would trust a survey commissioned by the seller. And nor would the lender. So they will have to commission their own. And if the house takes time to sell, the original survey could be a year or more out of date. So a new one would be needed.
But it does have the advantage that the house will not go on the market without some assurance that it is okay. I had to sell my late mother's house, and the first buyer pulled out when his house failed the survey after he had found a buyer.
I agree that Gazumping laws are needed. Apparently you can drop out of a sale right up until you exchange contracts.Work in the public sector? Read the IR35 FAQ hereComment
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Gazumping...
Originally posted by MailmanActually the only law that needs to be passed is the one that makes accepting a verbal offer binding.
Its just a joke how you can spend so much time in trying to buy a house only to have the owner turn around at a seconds notice to say they are selling to someone else.Comment
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My £0.02
The idea of a seller having to prove that their house is worth what they're selling it for is a good thing. Buyers have far more security in getting the ridiculous mortgage they need to buy the place if it’s already been surveyed. It of course won’t stop gazzumping unless we adopt the Scottish system but it doesn’t look likely at the moment.
The problem is that the ‘just drove past and had a quick look’ survey will only be based on recent prices of homes sold in that postcode and will have no real reflection on the condition of the home, so the more conscientious buyer will still get their own survey anyway.
Just my £0.02 though.Comment
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