On 15 Jul 2015 08:57:48 GMT, Huge wrote:

On 2015-07-15, AnthonyL wrote:
For a variety of reasons I've got to being a pensioner and have never
bought a house through an agent in the UK.

I've just had an offer accepted on what appears to be a well presented
and maintained 1960's extended (floor level only) bungalow.

Yes there are lots of websites but I'd appreciate some of this groups
experiences especially with solicitors and surveys plus anything else
you'd do differently if you had known what you know now.

- Don't do your own conveyancing. (I for one won't do business with you if you
are)


Amongst other things it does seem a "closed shop".

- Get a proper structural survey

- Shop round for a solicitor. Don't be intimidated - they're just tradespeople
like anyone else


And I though tradespeople were honest!

- If anyone mentions subsidence or flooding, run, do not walk, away


I do have a concern in as much as the whole estate was a quarry and
this house (or at least its back garden) is right up against the
quarry wall. So I guess I'd want a view on drainage. The estate has
been there 50yrs and I'd guess a quarry floor would be fairly solid?

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AnthonyL