Problems seen at second viewing

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We recently viewed and fell in love with a 1930s detached, got our house ready to sell and have just accepted an offer. We have legal, mortgage advisors etc all lined up, but yesterday we viewed the house again and spotted some issues which we’re concerned about:

Sloping floors in kitchen from the outside towards the middle of the house, 4or 5 cracked floor tiles

Similarly sloping floors in upstairs bathroom (above the kitchen)

Guttering coming away from the wall at one outside corner

Roof has seen better days, suspect it’s the original roof

Roof of extension is flat with a small patch of standing water on it

Added to all this, the seller had carved up the garden, boundary in place and has planning permission to build a new house 4m from ours (1m to their boundary and then the 3m width of our driveway). Understand that we’d need a party wall agreement as protection for that.

Finally on speaking to a local neighbour they said that further down the road there used to be a pond which has since been built over.

It’s in an area with clay soil.

At the very least I think we need a structural engineer/survey, but cold feet are setting in.

How would you proceed? We have a cash buyer who wants to move fast but I feel like we need to stop any further legal work etc until we’re armed with more info from the structural survey. Any advice welcome!

Having lived next to an extension being built for about 6 months there's no way I'd live that close to a whole house being built if it was avoidable.

Unless the price for your house in an absolute steal to compensate for loss of garden and proximity of the new build, I’d run like the wind. Regardless of price though, I'd not buy knowing a house was being built a metre away. I couldn’t take the stress after the last two years!!

For everything apart from the new build, I would have a full survey done, see what they say, get quotes for costs to remedy and then take it from there. Only you could decide if you can afford the works, if they make sense to do in relation to the price you've offered and if you want to take it on.

The new build is an entirely different matter. It would almost certainly out me off. You have no idea how long the works could drag on for and it it's just one property rather than a development, there's a chance they might not have the incentive or funds to finish as quickly as possible.

Having lived on a construction site of my own making for almost a year, there is no way on God's earth I'd live on someone else's! It's a no from me...

Thanks so much for all the comments, think we’re pulling out. Now to find a new house before our very eager buyer changes her mind! Thanks again