Leasehold Coach House

oggy1511_2

Hi we are in the middle of part exchanging with bovis for a 2 Bedroom Coach house. We have just found out it is a leasehold with 999 years of the lease starting from july 2004.
The ground rent is 185 PA
Can anyone help me has anyone else had a Leasehold Coach house and what does leasehold mean ?
Also in our lease it states about not having pets and not being able to erect a satelite dish or aerial. But when I rang our Solictors she did say that the lease also comes under flats to thats why it states certain things.
Has anyone else with a leasehold house had pets and erected a satelite dish and had any problems and did they have to get permission off the lanlord.
Many Thanks
Oggy

BitterAndTwisted

Yes, if there are clauses in the lease precluding you having pets, erecting satellite dishes and the like you will need to secure written permission from the freeholder before you go ahead and do any of those things.

If, by a "coach house' you mean a property built over a garage then it is a flat/maisonette.

Strapped

oggy1511 wrote: »

Hi we are in the middle of part exchanging with bovis for a 2 Bedroom Coach house. We have just found out it is a leasehold with 999 years of the lease starting from july 2004.
The ground rent is 185 PA
Can anyone help me has anyone else had a Leasehold Coach house and what does leasehold mean ?
Also in our lease it states about not having pets and not being able to erect a satelite dish or aerial. But when I rang our Solictors she did say that the lease also comes under flats to thats why it states certain things.
Has anyone else with a leasehold house had pets and erected a satelite dish and had any problems and did they have to get permission off the lanlord.
Many Thanks
Oggy

My friend lives in a leasehold house and can not have pets. If it's in the lease, then it's in the lease and you can't count on the leaseholder making an exception.

I wouldn't buy a coach house over someone else's garage in a million years, btw.

geoffky

I bet you have used bovis recommended solicitors......RUN AWAY FAST.....they are looking after the sellers interests not yours.

G_M

oggy1511 wrote: »

has anyone else had a Leasehold Coach house Lots of people have these. They have pros and cons and what does leasehold mean ? It means you do not own the freehold. A simple way to explain this is to say you do not own the land on which the property is built. You are buying the 'right' to live in this property for the remainder of the lease (995 years).
Also in our lease it states about not having pets and not being able to erect a satelite dish or aerial. But when I rang our Solictors she did say that the lease also comes under flats to thats why it states certain things. It's nothing to do with being 'a flat', it's to do with being a lease. You buy the right to live there, under certain conditions, like paying £185 pa, not keeping pets and whatever else is written in the lease.
Has anyone else with a leasehold house had pets and erected a satelite dish and had any problems and did they have to get permission off the lanlord.
Many Thanks
Oggy

Some people in this position will have introduced pets/put up a dish without permission. Of those, some will have 'got away with it' and some will have had problems.
Think of it like speeding. Lots of people drive over 70 on the motorway. Only a % get taken to court!

oggy1511_2

Thanks everyone for your replies hubby is ringing bovis tomorrow and our solictor to see where we stand as we havent been told about groundrent from day one the first we knew about ground rent was when we got the lease and contract to sign we havent signed anything yet till we get it sorted because at the end of the day we have been misold something we think.

G_M

Well, not 'misold' as you haven't bought it. Clearly the full facts have been revealed to you during the buying process.

But I know what you mean!

oggy1511_2

Surely though they should of stated the ground rent on sales reservation form they filled out which they didnt as ground rent is left blank but they did put a service charge on which we knew about from the begining but not the ground rent. So we going to mention this to solictor tomorrow. Surely they should of mentioned this first off
Thanks oggy

Pupnik

If you want to go ahead with the property you might want to look into the possibility of buying the freehold- it is possible, but if the owner of the house the flat is attached to is the freeholder that might be tricky.

oggy1511_2

Thanks Pupnik we buying the house of Bovis and the lanlord is Bovis My hubby is going to ask the solictors tomorrow if there is any chance of buying the freehold.
Thanks Oggy

neverdespairgirl

oggy1511 wrote: »

Surely though they should of stated the ground rent on sales reservation form they filled out which they didnt as ground rent is left blank but they did put a service charge on which we knew about from the begining but not the ground rent. So we going to mention this to solictor tomorrow. Surely they should of mentioned this first off
Thanks oggy

If it's a leasehold place, you'd know there was ground rent to pay, though.