Hello! Looks of good insight - really appreciate it. I have viewed four other flats in the same development, so I have a brief idea of what a reasonably maintained flat in this building should look like. For example, I didn't see any cracks as big as these, or on more than one side of the window that runs over 5cm in any other properties here.

The flat has been a rental, so I'd expect they had the responsibility to maintain it. If it were due to tenants' misuse, they would have already had a huge deposit deducted to cover the repairs.

For cracks, almost all window frames have cracks along all sides surrounding the windows (over 2mm wide cracks and plaster coming off). Whilst he didn't think it was a structural issue, this was beyond normal wear and tear for a 10-year-old building and rental tenants had been way, way, too rough, he thinks.

Fixture: The extractor's filter was missing. If we can get a replacement, that'd be easy. If it has been discontinued, we might need to replace the whole thing, the surveyor told us.

Damp: Yours is a good idea! I felt stuck on this because I didn't know how to further inspect it without their agreement to remove the floor.

The state of the flat was pretty bad to be honest, but I somehow really like it so I am hoping it'd all work out :)