{"id":5366,"date":"2012-10-24T07:28:54","date_gmt":"2012-10-24T07:28:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/?p=5366"},"modified":"2012-10-24T07:28:55","modified_gmt":"2012-10-24T07:28:55","slug":"caveat-emptor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2012\/10\/24\/caveat-emptor\/","title":{"rendered":"Caveat Emptor"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two news stories in the last few days have highlighted the danger posed by landslides to property, and with insurance mot covering landslide losses in most areas, the concept of caveat emptor (let the buyer beware) most definitely applies.\u00a0 The first involves a property transaction in the UK.\u00a0 The case is detailed (in its own unique style) in the Daily Mail<\/a>.\u00a0 It involves this house and this landslide in Torquay in SW England:<\/p>\n

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http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-2221965\/Torquay-house-left-teetering-cliff-edge-landslide-week-disabled-Sue-Diamond-paid-154k-it.html<\/p><\/div>\n

According to the article, the buyer bought the house at auction with a telephone bid, despite: a. Not having seen the property; b. having had no survey undertaken; and c. auction particulars that “warned buyers that the six-bedroom house was severely structurally damaged and might be beyond economic repair”. Six days after the purchase the landslide shown above occurred, triggering a legal battle between the home owner and the vendor.\u00a0 The former is now having to sell her other property to cover the costs.<\/p>\n

The second does not involve a property sale, but is a case where access to a property has been lost due to the collapse of an access track.\u00a0 This example, which occurred at Gippsland in SW Australia, is detailed here<\/a>.\u00a0 In this case the access track to their farm has been destroyed by a landslide, and it is not thought to be possible to repair it.\u00a0 The report indicates that the owners have not been able to access their property since June this year as a result.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Two examples of landslides that have caused extensive damage or loss of access to properties, resulting in substatial losses for their owners<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":5367,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[176,469,660,661,133],"class_list":["post-5366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-landslide-report","tag-australia","tag-featured","tag-lanslide-report","tag-legal","tag-uk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5366\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}