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Is the property information sheet (TA6 form) legally binding

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  • AnotherJoe
    AnotherJoe Posts: 19,622
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    Nice one G_M. I wonder if to help them out it might be worth adding ?

    6. My property is freehold, since all the other properties on this estate are leasehold it seems most likely someone in your company has not realised this and assumed that my property should be charged on the same basis as those.
  • G_M
    G_M Posts: 51,977
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    AnotherJoe wrote: »
    Nice one G_M. I wonder if to help them out it might be worth adding ?

    6. My property is freehold, since all the other properties on this estate are leasehold it seems most likely someone in your company has not realised this and assumed that my property should be charged on the same basis as those.
    What happened to 5)........? :rotfl:

    But yes, or simply amend 2) & 3) to read:

    "My Freehold Title documents, and ......."
  • AnotherJoe
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    G_M wrote: »
    What happened to 5)........? :rotfl:

    But yes, or simply amend 2) & 3) to read:

    "My Freehold Title documents, and ......."

    Oops LOL ######
  • PasturesNew
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    It could be a mistake if you're the only freehold property there. You need to go back and double check.

    My dad bought a house that had a bit of access land that was leasehold, so he bought that freehold and 10 years later randomly started receiving bills because the original paperwork had been sold in a "bundle of freeholds" to another company and the bundle included the leasehold land, but had not been marked as freehold sold on.

    All it took him was a phone call to sort it out. Nothing to pay, he was freehold.
  • davidmcn
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    Steven_A wrote: »
    We were specifically told when buying the property that we were no subject to any charges.

    Specifically told this by your solicitor when they reported to you on what the title deeds said?
  • davidmcn wrote: »
    Specifically told this by your solicitor when they reported to you on what the title deeds said?

    I took that as meaning = specifically told by the developer.

    Though that may be, of course, because my solicitor (legal executive to be exact) that I found was doing the paperwork when I bought my current house didnt say anything at all to me about what my title deeds said and I found out subsequently they should have done so and I was having to "sort their work out" somewhat for myself:cool::mad: (or, to be more accurate, the friend of a friend that turned out to be a barrister explaining things to me for free....).

    Hence - perfectly prepared to believe lots of people doing the legal work may well equally not say a thing about anything they've noticed (or should have noticed:cool:).
  • Steven_A
    Steven_A Posts: 8 Forumite
    yes I vividly remember the conversation whereby they said you do not pay anything.
  • Steven_A
    Steven_A Posts: 8 Forumite
    Thanks for all the responses - very helpful.

    My gut feeling is that now we are selling the property they have noticed an opportunity to put the cost onto the person buying the house.

    I'm worried it can affect the sale but hopefully it can be put to bed using some of the advice above

    Thanks very much everyone
  • davidmcn
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    Steven_A wrote: »
    yes I vividly remember the conversation whereby they said you do not pay anything.
    In that case you seem safe enough, if you haven't separately signed up for any of these services.
  • Steven_A
    Steven_A Posts: 8 Forumite
    Cheers David.

    Is there a specific form that a managing agent should have showing we signed up to a service charge?

    Or is it just in the title documents?
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