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Ready to go: 3 steps to your claim assessment

Fixed Fee Property Misrepresentation Assessment

Step 1 of 3

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Ready to go: Step 1 of 3 – Your agreement

We need to ask you to provide some information and documentation, so that we can check that we can work for you.

If you feel you understand everything, and want to instruct us to have a preliminary consideration of your matter, please tick the boxes below.(Required)

Ready to go: Step 2 of 3 – Administrative details

Now it is time to tell us about your claim and provide us with the information we need to make a preliminary assessment of whether or not the basic elements of a misrepresentation claim exist.

What is your full name?(Required)
What is your current residential address(Required)
What is the address of the property that you have purchased, having been misled by the seller (if not the same as your residential address)
(Don’t worry, we won’t contact them. We need this information to make sure that there is no conflict of interest and that we can work for you)
We have to know who our clients are. This is to comply with legislation, including anti-money laundering legislation, and professional regulations.
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Ready to go: Step 3 of 3 – About your claim

This is important. A misrepresentation claim is based on the fact that a buyer was induced by a seller to enter into a contract. If you are not sure when exchange and completion took place, leave these dates blank and we can check in due course. A contract is entered into when contracts are exchanged. Therefore, things said AFTER exchange of contracts cannot generally be said to be things that were relied on by the seller which led them to enter into the contract.
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We need to consider the contract of sale. It may contain contractual clauses which are relevant to any claim. We can still provide a preliminary assessment of whether or not you have a claim without it, but the contract itself could change our advice significantly, and we would need to see it anyway, if you do decide to take things further. To get the most out of our service, we recommend you provide us with the contract for consideration.
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We need to understand why you feel that you have been misled by the seller.

These might be things such as the property information form (TA6), leasehold information form (TA7) or your solicitor’s enquiries and the seller’s responses to those. It might be text messages or emails between you and the seller directly, or perhaps between you and the seller’s estate agent (although this is less likely to enable a claim to be pursued). What is important is that the document contains a factual assertion of something that you relied on and which you consider to have been inaccurate.
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