PHOTO: 123RFA buyer missed out because he couldn’t get an inspection done in time.

A would-be house purchaser says he feels let down by lockdown rules that meant the property he wanted to buy was snapped up by a back-up offer.

Mark Hawthorne was trying to purchase a property in Opua, in the Bay of Islands.

His offer was reliant on a LIM report, finance and building inspection.

But because of the lockdown, he was not able to have an inspection done so could not satisfy that condition.

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The vendors also had a clause in the contract that required them to get a council code compliance certificate for two additions that they had never had signed off.

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