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The facts that must be published about a property before it is marketed, in three parts, with unanswered treated as an answer.

Part A applies to every property: price, tenure, council tax band, and so on. Parts B and C apply where relevant — rights of way, flood history, restrictive covenants, mining, cladding.

The state that matters is the third one. A question has three answers, not two: stated, not applicable, and not known — with a record of who was asked. A buyer cannot tell 'no covenants' from 'nobody looked', and publishing the second as the first is a misleading omission.

An unanswered Part A question stops the property being marketed at all.

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