The shit people will do over £5k is astonishing. Go and stick a link to the survey on a lamppost outside then house so the future buyers know if you really want to piss the owner off.

I’m sure some people are serial time wasters who have no real intention of selling. Same sort of people who spend half their lives in doctors surgeries with imaginary conditions.

What would your claim be? It all sounds a bit shit for you but if the rooms are within the contractual tolerance I’m not sure a litigation solicitor is going to be able to help you?

Worth considering the trend for prices in the locale, you may end up buying something that is even less value in 4-5 months if you are starting from scratch again. I think this is the most important factor, and try and remove the annoyance from the equation. Obviously completely go to town on any snagging if that makes you feel better.

If you complained / got a lawyer involved best outcome might just be some token payment of a couple grand to keep you happy but it probably wouldn't cover your own fees. Obviously there isn't anything they can do at this stage to change the property. I expect once you complete there would be nothing you can do at all? Obviously actual legal advice would help you understand your options on this but that might be 2-3 hours / £1000 or so.

They might if the vendor hasn't told them the details/full story. Like they won't pay for it but I expect they would rather not waste a load of time with the seller giving other buyers the runaround if there are serious issues. Wouldn't the seller be asked by the EA for any known problems?

I haven't sold a house but I was given a previous potential buyers survey by an estate agent after a sale collapsed.

Maybe pointless, but spending 15 minutes of my day to make them aware what a dickhead the seller is and the potential to maybe get some money back for our searches seems worth it to me

I don’t really care if they pass our details on or not but from a morals point of view it isn’t fair in my mind that they are going to try and fuck over a future set of buyers again. if I can do anything to stop that I will

Switching estate agents twice now, so it’s been listed with 3 different ones, and then concealing issues is a proper cunt move IMO.

The estate agents themselves can see that it has been sold/remarketed a few times.

Even if they do drop it, there will be another who will market it. Are you gonna call them too?

If a property comes on the market at the estate agent you are calling do you reckon you be seen as buyer of choice?

estate agents are bad. letting agents are worse: 'bit of grease in your oven? that'll be £200 to clean please'.

Are you the old lady we were buying off or something? What a weird coincidence we are both members on fuk. Have you got the cement render sorted out yet?

there’s about 400 shitty estate agents in norfolk I highly doubt any house we buy will be through the same one

This is what happens when emotion gets in the way of business. Happened to us when we were gazzumped after having our offer accepted on a house we’d already started imagining our lives in. Took a few months to fully get over it.

Just move on Darko, as hard as it may be