Hello - I'm in the process of buying a house.
This is my second property, but the first time I've decided to get a survey (I know, I know - I should have done it the first time when I bought my flat, but it was hard enough scraping the money together for everything else back then, let alone the survey!)
So this time round, I decided to do everything by the book and get a proper survey done. As the property recently had a kitchen extension, I was recommended I get the level 3 RICS survey.
I've had the report back and generally the property is in decent shape, given it was built in 1970.
The RICS survey report stated that all the building regs docs should be present for the extension work that was done on the kitchen, which they were and have all been sent over to me, and as they okayed the kitchen structurally, I don't think there are any issues there.
There are a couple of things which the surveyor estimated at costing a total of around £1600. For example:
'The garage roof is nearing the end of its serviceable life and will require replacing in the immediate to short term. Cost £600.'
My gut is that is not enough to start messing around with the asking price and asking for a reduction when it's a relatively small amount.
Obviously, if they'd discovered subsidence or something dodgy with the building that would amount to many thousands of ££££, then I'd be speaking the estate agent, but just wanted to check that I'm right to just proceed as is.
Thanks!