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An additional scandal is the extortionate costs for buildings over a certain height in obtaining an EWS1 Form to show to mortgage lenders. Without which, your a
by ourcat 6y ago
An additional scandal is the extortionate costs for buildings over a certain height in obtaining an EWS1 Form to show to mortgage lenders. Without which, your appartment is effectively valued at zero, since you'll never be able to sell it.
- easytiger 6y agoYea. The difficulty related to the fact the companies verifying the buildings had understandable difficulty finding insurers to underwrite their opinion. There are plenty of other scandals with which I am familiar where buildings have had huge amounts of completely unjustified work done under bad advice
- jessaustin 6y agoAfter reading TFA and this comment thread, that doesn't seem scandalous at all. It would be evil for lenders to underwrite deathtraps.
- ourcat 6y agoThe scandal is that they shouldn't have been allowed to be built with the 'wrong' insulation in the first place. Also, people who have had surveys for properties they bought some years ago (pre-Grenfell) as in my case. So, if the Government are going enforce new standards and impose the need for very costly surveys and 'forms' to show new safety standards (again, based on their own ineptitude that caused Grenfell), then they should be the ones who have to pay for any remediation. Not the Leasholders.