After 6 months of searching we've found a house we really like. It needs modernising and redecorating throughout. But there is a crack that is making us nervous. I wish I'd taken a photo but viewings are so quick you are basically in and out. It's a 1930s semi detached.
Anyway it looks like this one but it was slightly wider on the bit that runs across the ceiling. It's downstairs in the hallway. But there is a hairline crack in the same area upstairs.
Naturally our worry is subsidence. There was a large tree approx 20 metres from the back of the house but it's been chopped down in the last year because it fell down not because it was deemed to be causing a problem.
The estate agent says there's no history of subsidence and the area is not a known for high movement.
I know a full structural survey and additional reports would be needed but I wondered if anyone knew whether this type of crack is more likely or less likely to be something serious. If we go ahead with this house we will likely miss out on another house which is not perfect but good enough. If we end up with neither house our buyers will pull out as they've been waiting a long time.