Buyer requesting a home buyers survey just before completion stage

[Willowwisp23]

We agreed an offer on our house at the start of August. The figure agreed meant we were able to offer on a house which needs approx £60k/£70k of work doing to it to make it our perfect home.

Our current house was built in the late 1800s. When we moved in, there was evidence of damp in the basement. We have spent thousands rectifying this issue and feel currently there is no damp but as the house is so old, it may return/other problems will no doubt appear over time.

We are worried that our buyer has made a last minute decision to get a survey. Regardless of the results, we really are not in a position to renegotiate the price at this late stage. I imagine the survey is bound to show up something even if it is just so the surveyor can justify his price.

Our current house is four storeys, our new house only two. Due to this we have already sold a lot of our stuff as it will not all fit in the new house. Worried now it's all for nothing.

I completely understand the need for a survey but we just can't afford to accept any less for our house. Really don't want to be unreasonable or fall out with our buyers but we are quite angry this has happened now and feel so stressed with this latest development.

My husband is adamant he will not budge on any talk of renegotiation. I am slightly more accommodating although really am just very soft and give into anyone. Any advice on what you would do in this situation?

nelly that's a good point actually. You're right, my house has been valued as a house built in 1885 rather than a trouble free new build. I'll certainly keep that in mind when the survey results are received.

thenew hopefully our buyers are aware of potential future issues so the survey shouldn't scare them away. I'm hopeful it will be fine. Moving house is really bloody stressful!

Tell me about it willow I am dreading their survey on Monday, just in case some murky secrets are lurking here that we didn't know about!

our house buyers solicitor is using her husband to do our survey at the last minute. Is this a conflict of interest

Start your own thread @victor111

@Willowwisp23

thenew hopefully our buyers are aware of potential future issues so the survey shouldn't scare them away. I'm hopeful it will be fine. Moving house is really bloody stressful!

what was the outcome Willowwisp23? This has now happened to us.

@Mum0fF1ve and this thread is 5 years old. You won't get any helpful replies by bumping old threads.

Thanks for the advice to start a new thread, though I am hoping to hear that someone in my shoes had a successful outcome, even 5 years ago.

We had the buyer from hell. She raised 100’s of enquiries, was completely fanatical about every detail, completely inflexible.
We accepted a price on the lower side from her with the caveat that WHATEVER the survey threw up there was no renegotiation on price and to be fair to her she didn’t try it. Could you say something similar?

Thank you for your response. He's been ok so far, we've said that already, given that he is requesting this "for the builders" we won't be negotiating, we'll put it back on. If that means we lose our new purchase, so be it. We'll be heartbroken as we've waited for this house for a long time. But we can't take any more stress. The house we're buying has caused a lot of stress, the last thing we expected was it coming from the other direction too.