Situation as follows.
My neighbor who I'm on good terms with mentions last night in passing that "it went through, we finally went to court and won" and they are booking builders.
I ask what for and he looks really surprised.
I then find out the six months before I settled on my ppor, court proceedings were started with the prior owner.
The owners/my brick fence had settled and pushed up against their garage, diagonal cracks everywhere, pretty unsafe. My neighbor approached the owner of my house to pay for repairs, he refused.
So my neighbor went to his insurance company and started legal proceedings.
Six months later I buy the house.
At no time did the realestate agent even hint at any of this and It didn't come up at all when my lawyer arranged the conveyancing.
Is there any legal obligation to disclose something like this prior to settlement?
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I'm not paying for any of the repairs, and I need to pick a new fence. I work 12+ hour graveyard shifts though, its not exactly a minor inconvenience to have builders on my property while I'm trying to sleep.
I'm meeting with the layer in about three hours, what are my options?
Should I also go see the realestate agency? (I know the actual agent quit a few months later though)
My neighbor who I'm on good terms with mentions last night in passing that "it went through, we finally went to court and won" and they are booking builders.
I ask what for and he looks really surprised.
I then find out the six months before I settled on my ppor, court proceedings were started with the prior owner.
The owners/my brick fence had settled and pushed up against their garage, diagonal cracks everywhere, pretty unsafe. My neighbor approached the owner of my house to pay for repairs, he refused.
So my neighbor went to his insurance company and started legal proceedings.
Six months later I buy the house.
At no time did the realestate agent even hint at any of this and It didn't come up at all when my lawyer arranged the conveyancing.
Is there any legal obligation to disclose something like this prior to settlement?
****
I'm not paying for any of the repairs, and I need to pick a new fence. I work 12+ hour graveyard shifts though, its not exactly a minor inconvenience to have builders on my property while I'm trying to sleep.
I'm meeting with the layer in about three hours, what are my options?
Should I also go see the realestate agency? (I know the actual agent quit a few months later though)