@Blobby10 congratulations !
@Preggosaurus9 sorry about your situation, sad and also tricky for you
@Violetroselily we can never seem to get our conveyancer when we want her either. So frustrating
@Hawkmoth is your purchase underpinned? I ask as we had a bomb shell this week. Nearly 8 weeks down the line, mortgage offer received, title deeds received, lots of planning applications granted received from vendor. We had been told to do survey ASAP. Left it a while until our buyer had done hers. 5 days later our conveyancer says search came back with subsidence and underpinning from 1984.
We don’t know what to do. Perfect location and on be face if it perfect house. We don’t know if our lender will still lend, waiting to hear. Don’t seem to have building regs sign off for underpinning. Don’t know what the property is really worth now if we ever want to sell. And if house is structurally sound, although survey done before we knew didn’t see any movement.
I went and knocked some neighbours. I didn’t get immediate neighbours but man opposite said house to the left had been underpinned too and he wondered whether the odd newer houses on the street came about after original house had subsidence. The whole area is clay and there’s a chalk mine nearby too. Such a lovely area. Three people confirmed they’d been warned of subsidence risk in the area. One had had movement that had settled found, one said he noticed some slight movement. Neither underpinned.
My head!