Hello!
Long story short, I am in the process of buying a house. When we viewed it, we asked the obvious questions around gutters, roof, boilers and if there are any known issues or previous surveys that highlighted serious risks to the agent, they said no and we followed that up with an email to them where in writing they said no. When we viewed the house we were told: boiler was recently serviced and not to turn any lights on (red flag and that should have gotten alarm bells ringing).
We made an offer, had the survey done and it flagged the roof as an issue, list as long as my arm of defects. But also mentioned that the boiler was faulty and electricity is dangerous. Had a specialist electrician produce a report and he confirmed it is dangerous, failed the safety and said downstairs lights don’t work.
Agent insists lights do work, which is a lie. One of them came to the house with me a second time and tried to turn them on and failed. When i mentioned the survey results, she now tells me that the seller has always said the wiring is a relic and belongs in a museum. None of this was mentioned to us until we did the survey. When I told her that her boss refused to let us turn the lights on, she says it’s standard practice when viewing property. A lie I know as I’ve visited close to 50 properties before this one.
I want to know am I unreasonable in asking for a reduction in price to remedy the issues identified?
TL:DR - estate agent lied about defects of the house I’m buying, paid for survey results that prove I was lied to, am I being unreasonable to request a price reduction?