Wednesday 18 January 2012

Online House Hunter: Flood warning | Alan Cleaver | Independent Property Blogs

Online House Hunter: Flood warning | Alan Cleaver | Independent Property Blogs

YOU’VE found your potential new dream home and are sorting out the finances when it strikes you that “No 6, River View” or “No 2 Spring Close” by its very name suggests there might be a risk of flooding. How do you check?

It’s one of the many checks that will be undertaken by professionals before you obtain a mortgage but there are online methods of finding out for yourself if your home is at risk from flooding, subsidence, pollution or other environmental problems.

Flooding is coming back to the top of the agenda because of a scary deadline approaching this summer. Insurers will know that year-long policies will begin to stretch beyond the June 30th 2013 – and that’s the day when the ‘Statement of Principles” agreed between the government and the insurance industry over flooding runs out.

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