We are buying and selling at the moment but our current home was the first we bought and as it was a new build, a survey wasn’t required.
The house we are buying is about 50-60 years old and has had a fairly large extension with a flat roof added at some point (more than 10 years ago) and an en suite installed into the master. We should get more info/certainty on these from the vendors’ solicitors soon but we are aiming for a quick process so trying to plan ahead.
The property has been rented out for about 10 years so things like the boiler and electrics should be in decent order.
The mortgage lender (a hight street bank) say they don’t need to do a valuation as the desktop one came back much higher than our offer price. However, the house had been on the market a long time for the area (>6 months) and we think the desktop one is a bit off.
We want to instruct a level 2 home buyer survey, with our main concern being the roof on the extension. It is extremely unlikely we would use the survey to negotiate on price (or walk) as think we are getting a good deal; it’s really just so we can plan for any immediate work and not go in blind. Having said that if there was anything thrown up that was really unpalatable then I’d never say never.
Having never instructed a survey can anyone advise please? Does this sound sensible and if so, is there any danger that we might spook the vendor just by instructing it? Or would you expect any buyer to instruct one on that type of house? (Our buyers are not having a survey done but our house is only 5 years old). We really don’t want to lose the house but I think I’m overthinking it.