Wobble just before completion re everything that needs doing in the house

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I’m hoping some reassuring words instead of the MN vipers (fingers crossed). We accepted £30k off the asking price and buyers had three hour long viewings and a survey, but I’m torn with guilt at all the things I know that need doing. If I won the lottery, I would leave them a perfect house, but we’ll need to do work on our onward purchase so can’t afford to splash out here too.

We haven’t hidden anything and if you looked you’d find it, but we haven’t provided a list of everything that needs doing.

But they’re a young couple just starting out in life. And it took us ages to sell.

We complete in 3 days and exchanged a month ago. I should be over the moon but I’m waking up with guilt.

What needs doing for example?

As someone who relatively recently bought a house which required tonnes of work- it’s in them. As long as you haven’t lied then they could have asked/ looked/ surveyed whatever they liked. I took a more experienced (building trade) friend and then wrote a list of questions. Still missed little bits but nothing too terrifying because that was all covered by surveys. It’s exciting! It’s sold!

Do you think they've overpaid?

Ah my DS and his partner are just buying their first home. They've looked at so many houses but are thrilled with the one they are buying. Unless you've outright lied and there's something drastic it's fine.
Minor repairs and cosmetic damage are to be expected. Big problems should be detected at survey.

Well you've knocked £30k off the price so that gives them wiggle room
I imagine when you move you'll also find stuff that needs doing, don't feel any guilt

You’re really overthinking it. Anything structural their survey would (should….!) have picked up, and the little stuff you only know about when you live there is exactly what every buyer experiences ever.
Even a brand new build would have snags and plenty of details they aren’t happy with.
They are paying the price they are prepared to pay and you’ve dropped the price to what you are happy to sell at. That’s exactly how a transaction works.

If major structural damages with previous work weren't disclosed, they would be entitled for compensation in court.

As long as it's clean I'd not bother. I paid full asking price and have discovered a lot more stuff that needs doing. Some unsafe too. I'm furious as well as upset. I left my house, which I sold for about 25k below valuation and left all white goods and a practically fully furnished house, clean, garden weeded, electrics checked and updated, boiler serviced etc. I can sleep at night but I wish a huge flood and a long snagging list on my vendor.