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Legal Search: Buying a house without one?

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Skydancer Fri 25-Feb-22 16:10:47

We are buying a house in the middle of an 25-year-old estate. There will be no roads built nearby. It cannot flood. Nothing is planned for the area. There has never been mining. Our solicitor says we really do need to have a Search done but we don't want one as we want to speed up the process. Has anyone ever bought a property without having a Search done? Having looked at the Search done on our last house, it didn't show anything we didn't already know and seemed a waste of time and money. I could understand it if this was an unusual, one-off house but it's just like the other 60 or so nearby.

Tizliz Mon 14-Mar-22 10:56:29

Strange things can be hidden away. We were going to buy a house with a workshop. The workshop was huge so we were going to let some of it to help with the mortgage. The owners kindly let me have a copy of the deeds and hidden away was a clause stating that the user of the workshop had to live in the house - presumably to stop what we wanted to do as it was in a residential area. We did not buy, didn’t want a lodger as well. Well worth the very boring read of the deeds.

Franbern Thu 17-Mar-22 08:36:03

Having been told last Friday, by Solicitors, that the sale on the third flat up for sale was due to be Completed before the end of this month, was saddened when heard on Monday that this sale had fallen through. No idea why. However, has given me the opportunity of giving advance notice of this to a couple in some of my U3A groups who was looking fora flat in our block. They are now going to view on Saturday.

Do wonder why sales fall through so late in the game.....Mind you, I do not feel terribly sorry, as the erstwhile purchasers had already been bombarding our Management Committee with questions, and we had the strong feeling they were likely to be difficult people.
Really lovely flat, cannot see it is being on the market for very long. So glad that I advised the seller (son selling following parents demise), NOT to take out all the furniture as soon as he had accepted an offer - I warned him then that far too often sales go pear shaped and he was best to leave it furnished until much later, IN CASE it had to go back on the market.

Horrible weather day yesterday, it poured with rain all day, although I have a good rain prove cover for me and my scooter, I had three meetings I had hoped to attend, two of them involves leaving the scooter outside, did manage to keep that dry, but I decided not to go to the third as by then I felt really tired and could not face another time trundling around in that rain. Today, lovely blue sky and sunshine!!!

Franbern Thu 17-Mar-22 13:22:09

Sorry this last was put in wrong thread, should have been in thread to with stress of house moving.