Short Lease and other queries

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cattie wrote: »

Well done SDW, good luck in your new home & hope you will be very happy there. I've found your post very interesting as I'm considering downsizing to a flat in the not too distant future & there is one really nice developement nearby that occasionally has flats with short leases that come onto the market. I've noticed that in spite of the short lease warning, given by the ea's with whom the properties get listed, they seem to be quickly sold.

Two bedroom houses are rare in my neigbourhood, which is the reason I'm thinking of going into a flat. I've owned leasehold properties before with no problems, so have no fear of leasehold, like some people have.

Thanks for your good wishes, however I must add there has been a change of plan and our son is now going to live in the flat and we will have our house back, where he and his girlfriend has been living while we were in Spain.

We had a family conflab and we decided we would miss the garden and he decided he didn't want a garden, so it seemed wise to do it this way instead of how we originally intended

We will almost certainly downsize to a flat sometime in the future.

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Sale completed on 10th February as arranged and son has moved in.