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The Wife and I were due to sign the paperwork tomorrow, on our next home - but the Solicitor for the buyer has only just come back with a list of demands to have our asking price reduced; I cannot help but feel that this is quite a dirty under-handed technique to wangle some money off!
Everything had been going great so far- other than "the searches" which took in excess of 6 weeks to all come back! And we were looking to be sitting pretty - FTBs going for our place, and the owner of the house we bought, are both retired - so buying their next place with cash. Our buyers had even footed the cost of having a separate electrician's report done - something quite rare according to our Estate Agent.
It seems though, that the Homebuyer report the FTB's had purchased, may have had a fair amount of copying and pasting done - as there are a few glaring issues with it; the biggest is that they claim he have wooden fascias that will need to be repaired/replaced - to which the Solicitor for the FTB's is asking for over a grand off! The only issue is that we are mid-terrace, have bricks all the way up to the roof, and have no fascias anywhere....
I have responded to our Estate Agent to advise them we will offer £1,000 off as a goodwill gesture, and will purchase any necessary indemnity policies.
Hey ho, I guess we are back to the nervous wait to exchange
Everything had been going great so far- other than "the searches" which took in excess of 6 weeks to all come back! And we were looking to be sitting pretty - FTBs going for our place, and the owner of the house we bought, are both retired - so buying their next place with cash. Our buyers had even footed the cost of having a separate electrician's report done - something quite rare according to our Estate Agent.
It seems though, that the Homebuyer report the FTB's had purchased, may have had a fair amount of copying and pasting done - as there are a few glaring issues with it; the biggest is that they claim he have wooden fascias that will need to be repaired/replaced - to which the Solicitor for the FTB's is asking for over a grand off! The only issue is that we are mid-terrace, have bricks all the way up to the roof, and have no fascias anywhere....
I have responded to our Estate Agent to advise them we will offer £1,000 off as a goodwill gesture, and will purchase any necessary indemnity policies.
Hey ho, I guess we are back to the nervous wait to exchange