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January 9, 2025

When can a buyer of a property address the seller for a hidden defect?

2019-09-10T12:23:28+00:00September 10, 2019|commercial property and investment, enterprise and real estate, news, posts, specialist areas|

When you buy an (old) house, you buy it in the condition it is then in. This means including all visible and invisible defects. If it turns out that there is a defect after the purchase, this is in principle at the buyer's risk. This sounds logical. Nevertheless, there are conceivable situations in which the buyer can hold the seller liable for the costs of repairing the defect. In this article I explain when this can be the case.

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