No Completion Certificate

[Dogsandbabies]

Hello all,

I am hoping one of you could advise. We are in the process of buying a house that has had an extension. The owners never got a completion certificate from the council. My research tells me that indemnity insurance would be void if we invited the council to look at the extension and sign it off.

However we want to extend further so would need to invite the council. Has anyone been in that situation before?

Clearly I think I need to revise my offer to reflect the risk but I have no idea where to even begin putting a number to this.

Thanks.

I'm getting ready to phone up. We won't be asked to bring it up to current regulations will we?

No, the final inspection should be on the basis of the regulations in place at the time of the work.

@user1487194234

Can’t imagine any chance of sellers dropping the price by 20k

What a bizarre comment when you don’t know the sums we are talking about here

Well have been involved in property development for 35 years ,so have a fair idea of how it works

@user1487194234

Well have been involved in property development for 35 years ,so have a fair idea of how it works

Absolutely nothing to do with property development It’s to do with figures

£20k on a £120k property - big bloody deal

£20 on a £2mil property - much less so

£20k on a £120k property - big bloody deal

£20 on a £2mil property - much less so

As someone who regularly handles the sale of £1m/£2m houses, £20k is still £20k and very few give that sort of money up easily.

Well yes, it’s not really context dependent, is it?
It’s 20 grand out of their pocket into yours 🤷🏻‍♀️ Who’d do that without blinking?

@Mildura thank you!
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