House sale - how honest to be about short comings

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I’m getting divorced and the house is being sold. I get to keep the proceeds so am motivated to get the best return.
i will be downsizing but will still be responsible for homing my 3 DC.
The house is in good condition generally but in the kitchen one of the two ovens doesn’t work and the Corian worktop is chipped.

AIBU to say nothing and hope the buyer doesn’t notice (though this makes me feel uncomfortable)
YANBU - it’s buyer beware

Any tips on repairing the worktop would be useful 😊

If they discover the oven isn’t working within 5 days then they can claim against you I think.

wouldnt worry about the worktops

You may be asked in your conveyancing questionnaire if you are leaving the oven and to declare its in good working order. So when you have a buyer and if you need to declare this you could renegotiate the price in buyer favour to reflect the cost of fixing/replacing how much is that? Is it not worth you replacing with a cheap alternative?

The worktop i wouldnt even think twice. One of our tiles in kitchen was completely chipped i never told anyone and small chip in worktop again- no where to declare this

A slightly chipped worktop is the sort of thing you find in a home that's mot brand new. Just make it clear in the listing that the house sale does not come with an oven and scrap it when you move. I'd rather buy a home knowing I had to fit an oven than move in and find out it doesn't bloody work.

I would mention the oven not working but not the chipped worktop.

i personally wouldn’t care if one of the second hand ovens wasn’t working. A house costs hundreds of thousands of pounds. The state of the oven is the least of the issues. But I’m moved multiple times and don’t get too wound up by the little things

Honestly compared to some of the other things that can be wrong with a house these are very very minor.

You have to be honest when you fill in the paperwork. These are very minor things but it’s better to be up front.

I’d fix the oven and worktop if I could or declare them as broken - think how you’d feel if you moved somewhere with your kids (which you will be doing shortly) and then the oven is broken and they put a big plant pot over a damaged worktop?

If they don’t spot the damaged worktop then I wouldn’t mention it. I wouldn’t hide it by covering it.

If I couldn’t fix the oven, I’d just say wasn’t included

Worktop I wouldn't bother mentioning. It's predictable damage, will be visible to sellers when they view & is still usable. Our quartz worktop came with a big chunk missing out of the edge (not declared) & I don't really GAF as it's not to my taste & will go eventually.

Oven I would mention or as PP suggests state that it comes without, as the viewer would assume it's working if it's listed.
Are we talking like a double oven - little top & big bottom one? Or two proper full units? I'd be annoyed if I arrived and only had a little top grill to work with!

Good luck for the sale, it's never pleasant but hopefully a fresh start for you.

Declare the worktop if you are asked orally or in writing to declare that sort of thing. Declare the oven anyway as this could be a problem. Expect to give them some money off for it.

Or get the oven fixed

The worktop is to be expected but please do mention the oven. Our seller didn’t so on the first night we moved in I couldn’t make anything to eat. Oh, and it tripped out all the electrics in the house too. I wouldn’t have cared if they’d told me it didn’t work, I’d have just made alternative arrangements for food.

I sold my house last year. I was asked in a questionnaire from the solicitor “to the best of your knowledge are the kitchen appliances in working order”

Would it be possible to get the oven fixed?

You will be asked on the property info form if everything is working. It wouldn’t be an dealbreaker for me, though if it’s built in it’s a pain to fix.
Agree with PPs worktop is a non issue.

sadly no, it’s a Siemens oven and annoyingly they’ve discontinued the range. I’ve lived with it broken for a year as I wasn’t sure what to do. The ovens are side by side and a new one would look out of place

Everyone does this, most buyers expect to spend some money on a new place.

Have you filled the fixtures and fittings list
I would list 2 ovens 1 working one display only non working