{"id":135748,"date":"2023-04-03T13:00:44","date_gmt":"2023-04-03T06:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/the-aa-lost-my-mum-80000-on-the-sale-price-of-her-home\/"},"modified":"2023-04-03T13:13:47","modified_gmt":"2023-04-03T06:13:47","slug":"the-aa-lost-my-mum-80000-on-the-sale-price-of-her-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/the-aa-lost-my-mum-80000-on-the-sale-price-of-her-home\/","title":{"rendered":"The AA lost my mum \u00a380,000 on the sale price of her home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#013;<br \/>\nIt admits it made an error but we lost our buyer and had to go to auctionI am contacting you out of desperation on behalf of my mum. She is 76 and recently lost her husband of almost 50 years. She is selling the family home and needs to move into a bungalow as a matter of urgency.She accepted an offer of \u00a3295,000 in early 2022; however, the buyer\u2019s survey identified some cracks to the external wall, and an investigation was recommended. We referred this to her insurer, the AA, and it did its own survey. It later confirmed the fix would involve \u201clocalised\u201d repairs but there was nothing to suggest major structural work would be required. Continue reading&#8230;&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource : theguardian.com&#013;<br \/>\nRead more&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/money\/2023\/apr\/03\/the-aa-lost-my-mum-80000-on-the-sale-price-of-her-home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The AA lost my mum \u00a380,000 on the sale price of her home<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#013; It admits it made an error but we lost our buyer and had to go&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-property-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75ss1-zju","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":94737,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/home-ownership-a-life-goal-for-most-hong-kong-students-with-bank-of-mum-and-dad-expected-to-pay-for-it-survey-finds\/","url_meta":{"origin":135748,"position":0},"title":"Home ownership a life goal for most Hong Kong students, with \u2018Bank of Mum and Dad\u2019 expected to pay for it, survey finds","date":"July 26, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Most young people in Hong Kong look at buying a property as a life goal, and about half consider their parents duty-bound to help them achieve that dream, according to a survey by the insurer Sun Life. 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