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Am I entitled to compensation from my estate agent?
By: lateman Date: December 19, 2024, 3:12 pm
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Hello all, I wondered if anyone could offer any advice please..
My partner and I wanted to buy a house we saw for sale. Upon
viewing, we asked the estate agent if the house was normal
construction. They replied that they though it was. So we
made an offer which was accepted.
We then employed the services of a solicitor to deal with the
conveyancing.
And we used a mortgage broker to find us a suitable mortgage.
When this was approved, we paid his £600 fee.
Our solicitor arranged for the searches on the property to be
carried out. We looked at these, and everything seemed fine.
This cost us £320.
We then had the property surveyed, costing us £400. This is
when we found out that the house was NOT of normal construction.
Needless to say we were pretty upset with this, as had we known
this at the point of viewing the house, we would not have been
interested in buying, as had happened previously with a
different estate agent (we viewed a house, but then didn't make
an offer when the agent told us it was not normal construction).
And we have already spent around £1300 so far (money we really
can't afford to lose) only to find out that we don't want to buy
the house after all.
Where do we stand legally on this?
Who is ultimately at fault here?
Am I correct in understanding that the estate agent must legally
declare the type of construction if the property is they know?
Is ignorance of this knowledge reasonable for an estate agent?
Are we legally entitled to be compensated by the agent for the
money we've spent on the mortgage broker, the solicitor, the
searches, and the surveys?
Any help/advice would be most welcome, thank you!
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Re: Am I entitled to compensation from my estate agent?
By: andy_foster Date: December 19, 2024, 3:20 pm
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No
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Re: Am I entitled to compensation from my estate agent?
By: mickR Date: December 19, 2024, 3:42 pm
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[quote author=lateman link=topic=4362.msg50507#msg50507
date=1734642763]
Upon viewing, we asked the estate agent if the house was normal
construction. They replied that they though it was So we made
an offer which was accepted.
We then employed the services of a solicitor to deal with the
conveyancing.
And we used a mortgage broker to find us a suitable mortgage.
When this was approved, we paid his £600 fee.
Our solicitor arranged for the searches on the property to be
carried out. We looked at these, and everything seemed fine.
This cost us £320.
We then had the property surveyed, costing us £400. This is
when we found out that the house was NOT of normal construction.
....had we known this at the point of viewing the house, we
would not have been interested in buying.....
[/quote]
so
you'd had an issue previously with a non standard construction
which you specifically didn't want.
you asked the selling Agent, they said "they think so" but you
still went ahead without asking them to find out and confirm?
unless you told them specifically that you didn't want that
construction or that they said it wasn't them no professional
negligence or misrepresentation
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Re: Am I entitled to compensation from my estate agent?
By: lateman Date: December 22, 2024, 1:56 pm
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we did tell the agent before viewing properties that we didn't
want non-normal constructions.
and my wife tells me they did say it was normal construction,
and that I'm not remembering the conversation with that agent
very well (we have dealt with a few agencies during our property
search)
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Re: Am I entitled to compensation from my estate agent?
By: mickR Date: December 22, 2024, 4:57 pm
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anything in writing?
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