Nash and another v Evens & Matta
Nash and another v Evens & Matta
- 1988
- Estates Gazette (8804) 30 January 1988, 131-137(4) .
QBD 11 June 1987. An action by the plaintiffs (P) against the defendants (D), a firm of surveyors and estate agents . P alleged a breach of duty of care and negligence in a valuation report to a building society, when they purchased a flat. Briefly, P purchased a flat for £13,750 in 1981. The building society loaned £1,500 with a proviso that the security of the flat was limited to £10,312. P decided against an independent survey, relying on the building society valuation inspection. Two years later, P tried to sell the flat. The intending purchasers obtained a report and valuation from another surveyor, who noticed vertical cracks in the walls, and advised them to have a structural survey . It was discovered that the walls were cavity walls and the wall ties had rusted causing the cracks. The intending purchasers withdrew, and when P also found damp and rotting floorboards, decided to sue D. QBD concluded that in 1981 nothing was visible to warn D as to the potential problems, and t
SURVEYORS
QBD 11 June 1987. An action by the plaintiffs (P) against the defendants (D), a firm of surveyors and estate agents . P alleged a breach of duty of care and negligence in a valuation report to a building society, when they purchased a flat. Briefly, P purchased a flat for £13,750 in 1981. The building society loaned £1,500 with a proviso that the security of the flat was limited to £10,312. P decided against an independent survey, relying on the building society valuation inspection. Two years later, P tried to sell the flat. The intending purchasers obtained a report and valuation from another surveyor, who noticed vertical cracks in the walls, and advised them to have a structural survey . It was discovered that the walls were cavity walls and the wall ties had rusted causing the cracks. The intending purchasers withdrew, and when P also found damp and rotting floorboards, decided to sue D. QBD concluded that in 1981 nothing was visible to warn D as to the potential problems, and t
SURVEYORS