Electric_Andy
Heavy Metal Fan
- Location
- Plymouth
CLutching at straws a bit here, but wonder if anyone else has had similar experience?
My partner has just sold her 4 bed semi, and we have bought another house together. The 4th bedroom was a loft conversion done in 1979 and has been sold as a 4 bedroom house 3 times up until now with no problems.
The buyer's mortgage company have now said that the 4th bedroom loft conversion was done before regs were required, and it is now not habitable and can only be used for storage. Our solicitors do not know what to do, and we are stuck as to who to ask next.
I'm thinking we could get it surveyed and get some sort of retrospective "approval", and then all would be fine, but I might be completely off the mark there. The worst case scenario would be we now only have a 3 bed house so the family cannot fit, and we'd have to drop the price for this one, sell again, and not be able to afford the larger one (for us to merge families)...so basically would be a complete disaster.
Has anyone else gone through this please?
My partner has just sold her 4 bed semi, and we have bought another house together. The 4th bedroom was a loft conversion done in 1979 and has been sold as a 4 bedroom house 3 times up until now with no problems.
The buyer's mortgage company have now said that the 4th bedroom loft conversion was done before regs were required, and it is now not habitable and can only be used for storage. Our solicitors do not know what to do, and we are stuck as to who to ask next.
I'm thinking we could get it surveyed and get some sort of retrospective "approval", and then all would be fine, but I might be completely off the mark there. The worst case scenario would be we now only have a 3 bed house so the family cannot fit, and we'd have to drop the price for this one, sell again, and not be able to afford the larger one (for us to merge families)...so basically would be a complete disaster.
Has anyone else gone through this please?