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Buildings insurance with share of freehold

FTB-FTW
FTB-FTW Posts: 115 Forumite
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edited 11 August 2010 at 7:59PM in Insurance & life assurance
Sorry to start a thread so similar to my last one but I am confused and need to sort this quickly.

Our new flat has a 50/50 share of freehold, with both shares sold at the same time, i.e. in the past month.

We need to sort out buildings insurance, and in our solicitor's letter it says that we could do this in conjunction with the downstairs flat, and split the costs between us. This *sounds* like a more cost effective way of doing it than taking out our own insurance independently (is that usually the case?) but I am not sure of the pros and cons of doing it this way, or indeed how we would make such an arrangement without having yet met our new neighbours or knowing what they have done vis a vis insurance.

Can anyone help?
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