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Greater Manchester has a substantial professional services sector, with significant concentrations of solicitors, accountants, and surveyors serving the city's property market, industrial sector, and growing digital economy. The region's large property market — driven by regeneration, buy-to-let investment, and commercial development — generates regular conveyancing and surveying negligence claims. The city's financial and professional services community around Spinningfields and Deansgate also creates financial advice and accountancy negligence claims.
Manchester's property market is one of the most active outside London, with extensive new development around Salford Quays, NOMA, and the city centre, alongside large-scale renovation of Victorian housing and converted industrial buildings. This creates a steady volume of surveyor and conveyancer negligence claims involving missed defects, boundary disputes, and lease issues. The city's industrial and logistics sector generates accountancy negligence claims involving tax advice, business valuations, and audit failures. The growing digital and creative economy around the Northern Quarter and MediaCityUK also creates intellectual property and contract disputes involving professional advisers.
A surveyor undertaking a HomeBuyer Report on a converted mill apartment in Ancoats failed to identify significant roof defects that were causing water ingress. The buyer faced £22,000 in unexpected roof repair costs within a year of purchase.
An accountant advising a Trafford Park manufacturing firm failed to identify a VAT liability on a specific product line. The business faced a significant HMRC assessment with penalties, which the accountant had not warned was a risk.
A commercial property solicitor failed to identify a planning condition requiring affordable housing contribution on a Salford Quays development site. The developer completed the purchase and subsequently faced an unbudgeted £400,000 contribution requirement.
Greater Manchester's key industries include logistics and distribution (Trafford Park and the regional network), manufacturing, digital and creative (MediaCityUK and the Northern Quarter), professional services (Spinningfields), and property and construction (Salford Quays and NOMA).
Yes, if the defect was visible and should have been identified. Converted industrial buildings often have complex roof structures that require specific expertise to assess. If the surveyor undertook the report without acknowledging the limitations of their expertise, or if the defect was visible and they failed to identify it, you have grounds for a claim. The claim would be for the cost of the unexpected repairs, any associated damage, and any reduction in the property's value if the defect was material.
If the accountant failed to identify a tax liability that a reasonably competent accountant would have identified, and you incurred HMRC penalties as a result, the accountant may be liable for the penalties and interest. The key question is whether the liability was obvious or reasonably discoverable at the time the advice was given. If the accountant gave incorrect advice, failed to conduct adequate research, or missed a known change in tax law, they may be negligent. You can claim for the additional tax, penalties, interest, and the cost of remedial advice.
The seller may be liable if they knew about the planning condition and deliberately concealed it, or if they made a misrepresentation in the sale documentation. However, the solicitor also has a duty to identify and advise on planning conditions that affect the property. If the condition was registered on the planning portal, referenced in the local search, or included in the planning permission documentation, the solicitor should have identified it. In many cases, both the seller and the solicitor may share liability, and a specialist can advise on the strongest route for recovery.
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