sellers wont allow surveyor in

copeyhagen

has anyone ever heard of a property vendors solicitor advising them not to let a surveyor onto the property?

The mortgage is subject to a surveyor inspecting the property, so it makes no sense?

its hard enough to find the right house, then get the deposit down, only for their solictor to say this? whos should their solicitor be dealing with in the early stages? the auctioneer?

Milk & Honey

copeyhagen wrote: »

The mortgage is subject to a surveyor inspecting the property, so it makes no sense?

You are the one getting the mortgage not the vendors. They might want a cash purchaser!

P. Breathnach

It's absurd. It's also unusual for a solicitor to be actively involved at such an early point, as things can not proceed to the contract stage until the preliminaries have been completed.

Tell the vendor (through the EA) that you can't proceed without a survey.

seamus

Milk & Honey wrote: »

You are the one getting the mortgage not the vendors. They might want a cash purchaser!

They might want a dumb cash purchaser, more like. Mortgage or no, you'd be an idiot to purchase any property without a proper independent survey.

As P. Breathnach says above, just tell them very simply that the sale won't go ahead unless your surveyor is allowed in. If you can, you should also speak to your surveyor and let him to know to be on the lookout for things that the sellers are trying to hide, e.g. not allowing the surveyor into parts of the property, continually interrupting him, etc.

StillWaters

Or they might not want to sell at all, just put the house on the Market to satisfy their bank, in which case they will put up obstruction after obstruction. What does the EA say?

odds_on

StillWaters wrote: »

Or they might not want to sell at all, just put the house on the Market to satisfy their bank, in which case they will put up obstruction after obstruction. What does the EA say?

Or maybe they are growing something illegal at present .......

Personally, I'd threaten to pull out. A purchaser's worst enemy is the one that falls in love with a property.

John Mason

or maybe the house is structurally unsound - walk way OP, there are hundreds of houses on the market