5 minutes...HA! what planet are you on?
seriously, buying property in teh UK is the most convoluted and drawn-out process in the world, even more so than the former Socialist entity that is Poland.

also, buying "off-plan" is a total minefield. just cos it's on a drawing sitting on a desk DOESN'T mean that it's also sitting on foundations, on a building site in the real world...






most surveyors (building, quantity or whatever) are 21yo wankers with less than no clue about anything...
( blaireau69 , the Cumbrian Travis Bickle., Mon 8 Jun 2009, 22:37, 1 reply, 16 years ago)

Well
This is what I do for a living - preparing and flogging these reports to legal firms. I didn't say it takes five minutes to buy a house, I said it takes five minutes to check before you even view a property to see if there's any nasty stuff at the Local Authority planning or land charges offices that shows up on a preliminary search; this would save a shitload of time before you even view a property and start the house buying process.
( SpankyHanky, Tue 9 Jun 2009, 8:11, Reply)