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Don't let subsidence send your house price tumbling Insurance companies, reluctant to take on homes that have been underpinned, are jeopardising sales. Hugh Thompson reports
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WHEN Peter Frog put his five- bedroom home in Putney, London, up
for sale earlier this year he came in for a couple of shocks. First,
he had to shed pounds 50,000 of the pounds 950,000 asking price
before attracting any offers and second, when he eventually agreed an
offer, the deal fell through because of something that had happened
19 years earlier.
In 1985, seven years before the Frogs moved in, the house had been
underpinned because of subsidence. The underpinning came with a
guarantee. When the Frogs moved in, they took out household insurance
with NatWest, their mortgage lender.
Some ...
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