Seller-side surveys
The property questionnaire states a year the roof was renewed and the single survey does not repeat the year. Which part is the seller's statement?
The property questionnaire is the seller's statement. The year the roof was renewed sits there because the seller wrote it. The single survey does not repeat the year, so the survey has not adopted that date as its own finding. A Home Report is the Scottish product a purchaser is pointed to, and these are different parts of it. It is not an English Level 2 you instruct yourself. The questionnaire is what the seller says. The single survey is what the survey recorded. Silence on the year is not a confirmation.
Last reviewed 24 October 2026. Written for buyers in England and Wales unless this answer says otherwise. No named surveyor has signed this page. It is general guidance, not a report on your house, and not legal advice.
What is the fuller explanation?
Sellers state history they remember or have papers for. The questionnaire is where those statements are collected. A surveyor who did not see the work, and who was not given a dated guarantee, has no basis to copy the year into the single survey as verified. Leaving the year unrepeated keeps the claim in the seller's document. Readers who want the date must go to the questionnaire and then ask what proof exists. They should not promote the year into the single survey by habit.
Ask the solicitor for any guarantee or invoice that matches the year in the questionnaire. The single survey's silence is not that paper. A Home Report is the Scottish product a purchaser is pointed to. Do not invent a life for the pack, and do not treat the questionnaire as the condition report. If the roof's age matters, the evidence is the seller's documents, read against what the single survey says about the covering it saw. The statement and the inspection stay apart.
What should you ask your surveyor?
- Which document states the year the roof was renewed?
- Did the single survey repeat that year or leave it with the seller?
- What paper, if any, supports the year besides the questionnaire?
What are the typical next steps?
- Treat the roof year as the seller's statement in the questionnaire.
- Do not read the single survey's silence as confirmation of the year.
- Ask the solicitor for a guarantee or invoice if the date matters.
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Also asked about this
If the seller repeats the year in an email, does the single survey now include it?
No. Another message is still the seller speaking. The single survey does not gain a year it did not write. A Home Report is the Scottish product a purchaser is pointed to, and the questionnaire remains the seller's part of it. Proof is a document, not a repetition.
Can the energy report supply the missing year?
Not as the seller's statement, and not as the single survey. The year you are asking about was written in the property questionnaire. The energy report is a different part of the pack. None of them becomes an English Level 2 you instructed yourself.