On Tuesday, 20 March 2018 08:58:01 UTC, alan_m wrote:
So a home report saying that the property has no roof, the gas boiler is
dangerous, there is no mains drainage, the water from the well is
polluted would be issued to tell a prospective buyer that the property
is in need of serious modernisation but if no smoke alarms are fitted to
the same property the home report will not be issued and therefore
cannot be sold - until smoke alarms are fitted?

"properties that aren't fit to live in, or are going to be demolished" are exempt from the home report requirement. AFAICS auction properties are not exempt.

I think it's a slippery end of a sloping wedge, a very dangerous principle, etc. What will be the next thing the govt will force homeowners to pay for?

Owain