# Homeowner must repay £225,000 Thames Water settlement after concealing sale

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/dishonest-homeowner-who-won-225000-thames-water-payment-claiming-her-house-was-unsellable-after-floods-must-pay-cash-back-because-shed-sold-it-a-month-earlier-for-780000/
- Published: 2026-10-29T11:01:35+00:00
- Updated: 2026-10-29T11:18:00+00:00
- Original publisher: Daily Mail (publisher lean: Right)
- Original article: https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-16248551/homeowner-Thames-Water-payment-floods.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490
- Topics: World

## Key points

- Karen Imber must repay a £225,000 Thames Water settlement.
- She sold her flood-hit home for £780,000 before agreeing the payout.
- Thames Water may also pursue damages over alleged misrepresentation.

## Summary

A High Court judge has ordered Karen Imber to repay £225,000 she received from Thames Water after finding she has no prospect of defending the company’s fraud claim. The dispute centres on her claim that repeated sewage floods had made her home unsaleable, while Thames Water says she failed to disclose that she had already sold it.

Imber’s Woodford Green home was flooded three times between 2006 and 2014. She had previously received £500,000 in compensation for earlier floods, then agreed a further £225,000 settlement in September 2023 after claiming the property’s value had been wiped out and citing other losses. She had exchanged contracts to sell for £780,000 on 2 August and completed the sale the next day; the judge said Thames Water did not know this when it settled. The court also allowed the company to pursue additional damages over the alleged misrepresentation.

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