Disclosing the ‘history’ of a house

[LeftmostAardvark]

Does anyone know if there is a legal requirement to disclose the history of a house when trying to sell it? For example, if there was a major crime that happened at some point in the past?

I’ve done some basic googling but come up with nothing, although my google-fu ain’t great.

Thanks

[LeftmostAardvark]

Mojooo said:

Private seller - no

Estate Agent advertising in course of business - possibly - it depends what it is

Can you go into a bit more detail please?

[LeftmostAardvark]

For fear of drip feeding:

This was whilst the house was rented out about a decade ago. The estate agent has just rung up the seller (not me, relative of wife) and had a go at them as they hadn’t disclosed. They’d not even thought about it as an issue, however my first thought when I heard about this was that the estate agent (as a professional responsible for advising and handling the sale) has a duty of care to ensure the seller was made aware of any need to disclose.

[LeftmostAardvark]

Mojooo said:

Read this

http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20140402...

Awesome, thank you.