Any EAs about? Have a legalish query........

[Becaroooo]

.....I moved house in December and there have been a few issues.

(electrical wiring not safe, boiler broke, leaking conservatory roof etc just for starters!)

The house was being sold by a building company - the previous owners had done a part ex with them - we made an offer to the EA which was accepted by the building company with the proviso that we completed by 30th Nov. Fine.

We have only ever sold one house before (our last one which was also our first one!) so are not that familiar with the legal aspects of it and there has been a lot going on tbh!!!

However, now I think about it, the EA we dealt with never asked us to go in or for utility bills or photographic ID which I seem to think they should have done? (is it to do with money laundering???) The first time they met me was when I picked the keys up on completion day.

Is this legal? And if not should I report them/contact them?

WWYD?

no, the only time you need to present stuff for money laundering purposes is for the sale of your own house. I bought in August and afaik we didn't have to give the EA we bought through any of that information, although our own EA or solicitor may have passed it on.

wrt wiring/leaking roof etc that's unfortunate, but houses are bought as seen, and presumably you did a survey to check all this?

Yes we had a survery done - although one wonders why frankly! Caveat emptor and all that!

Thanks for the info...

You don't need to show id etc to the estate agent, unless buying at an auction. We would take id from the seller of a house, though.

Is the house less than ten years old? If so, you need to take the house issues up with the guarantee holder, and if older you may have some redress via the surveyor if you feel they were negligent.

House was built in 1985 RS.

Surveyor has already said they are not liable for the things that have gone wrong as they dont check boilers or kitchen appliances. Would have thought he would notice the rotten conservatory roof though!

Just got to bite the bullet and sort the issues out I guess

is the conservatory still under warranty with the building company, if that was a later addition? You should have had the paperwork passed on to you by the previous owners for this, otherwise your solicitor would likely have arranged indemnity insurance. Otherwise, a pain in the arse. You'll have it just how you want it one day though!

All the ID and money laundering checks are the responsibility of the acting solicitors.

Was built in 1997 and we have an indemity policy for it (and for the garage conversion too)

just got to suck it up I guess

I'm slightly confused at your chain of thought here....
There are issues to do with wiring, boiler and conservatory at your property yet that led you to think about money laundering checks from the estate agent - er, why?

There is a legal questionnaire about the property that the seller would have had to provide, were any of these items mentioned on it? If they lied about the condition of things then you may have some legal redress.

The 2 are seperate issues runty

Our solicitor is chasing up the vendors atm....