I’ve been looking for a first home for months and had an offer accepted on a property I really liked - we’re stretching ourselves financially to afford it. Searches came back from the solicitor and it turns out that the extension (a single storey sunroom and a back porch) don’t have building regs sign off. The vendor was very shocked by this as their Builder had never even mentioned it (it doesn’t need planning permission, which is a separate piece of paper ). They’ve offered to buy indemnity insurance rather than go for a retrospective sign-off as they are concerned that the sign-off will be very invasive (eg digging for foundations), take a long time and will mean they miss out on the house they want to buy.
Should we insist on getting the regularisation certificate or do you think it would be okay for a surveyor to look at it and judge whether it was structurally sound? our survey is due in a coup of weeks. We’ve been advised that it is outside the window for the council to enforce any changes. It’s also been up for five years so presumably there’s nothing too fundamental wrong with it but I worry about selling it on in the future. I really don’t know what to do and think I might have to walk away.