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Thanks, I think I will try to ask the neighbours first. It is a council built property and I wonder if council would have any information. How normal is it to ask sellers to foot such bill? I am under the impression that it is normally the buyer who pays for surveys etc.

Hi, I have made an offer to buy a house at £130,000. I commissioned a homebuyer report which confirms the valuation at £130,000 with one condition, it identifies the house being built in 1955 in an area known to use mining shale as the hardcore foundation, which may be susceptible to sulphate...