New Clause 1 - Agreement between vendor and purchaser
Homes Bill
10:15 am
Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Cotswold, Conservative)
With great respect to the hon. Member for Bath, his amendment shows a misunderstanding of the property market. The two reasonable grounds that he identified are relatively obvious: a structural survey will fairly easily reveal a defect in a property and a local authority search will easily reveal a development in prospect. The more complicated legal matters, such as defects in title, rights of way and easements, are not so easy to discover and they can take time to determine. That is when the Scottish system allows people to withdraw. The grounds suggested by the hon. Gentleman are not the most valid ones.