A new-build seller may discover that Japanese knotweed elsewhere on the original development is preventing their buyer from obtaining a mortgage. What evidence can save the sale, and what should have been disclosed when the property was bought?

UK Finance does not retain Part 2 answers after lenders remove them from its website. We examine the resulting historical evidence gap, the importance of Part 3 file records and how the Lexsure Lender Archive can help establish what a lender required at the relevant time.

A buyer withdrew after a surveyor raised a possible flying freehold and encroachment involving a 50 year old extension. Why had the issue not been identified when the owner bought 12 years earlier?