No property information form

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Has anyone ever bought a house when a property information form isn’t available? The house seller is listed as a solicitor because the seller is deceased. Is this normal? My solicitor is being told the property is sold as is. Help!

Ask your solicitor about it
You could even ask for a copy of a template of a property information form and have your solicitor send it on for completion before going ahead

It's pretty common for executors to sell like that.

Ask for another viewing so you can have a good look round and work out if there's anything specific you want to know. Then your solicitor can try to get answers.

Yup just the same, solicitors were selling on behalf of a charity, all paperwork had sold as seen stamped across it. We knew nothing before we moved in really. I paid for a decent survey and so far there haven't been too many nasty surprises.

Happygirl79 how is the selling solicitor going to complete the form when they don't know anything about the property?

I spent so long carefully filling in my one for my sale! I am worried about missing something.

Ask for another viewing, take you own photos and make notes. Find the meters and get the MPAN numbers. Try to find the stop tap, the phone sockets, etc.

Yes I've bought a couple houses where there was no form. One was an auction and one was a probate sale. Really you can find out most things yourself or from the deeds and land registry (rights of way etc) that your lawyer will get you. If you have the property surveyed the surveyor will probably be able to answer some questions - ask him/her before they do it.
Things like FENSA and building control, gas certificates etc can be found by contacting the relavant authorities (I found one house was missing building certificate for new boiler just by putting in the address).
There will be someone handling the sale for the estate - they will have to have informed utilities and can tell you what companies are providing energy/electricity etc.

They can be worthlezz as from memory there is a not known column or similar which a vendor, lazy or otherwise can just tick. Assume everything is 'excluded from the sale' and then there won't be any surprises.

It’s totally normal in the circumstances you describe.

Thanks for your replies!