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dankes
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Sorry, this is in the wrong place
Hi there
I'm selling my flat and because the lease is 81 years, I'm looking into how much it'll cost to extend it. My VERY DODGY freeholder's agents are asking for £300 to just answer the question about how much it will cost and then they will put it to the freeholder.
A red flag went up in my mind when on their letter it said that the freeholder may not be the compentent landlord and that I should make other enquiries if I want as I won't get my money back if the freeholder isn't the competent landlord. (Nor if I decide not to carry on with the lease extension.) On my lease, which I've tried to read carefully, it says the leasor is someone other than the freeholder but then there's a mention of a transfer although the leasor isn't mentioned again but did sign it.
My real question is, I'm about to do an online land registry search on my own before I pay out the £300, will that tell me who the competent landlord is or will it just tell me who the freeholder is? If it won't tell me, how do I find out who the competent landlord is?
Any help and advice from anyone would be gratefully received. I have tried the lease-advice website but couldn't make head nor tale of what they were saying.
Cheers
D x
Hi there
I'm selling my flat and because the lease is 81 years, I'm looking into how much it'll cost to extend it. My VERY DODGY freeholder's agents are asking for £300 to just answer the question about how much it will cost and then they will put it to the freeholder.
A red flag went up in my mind when on their letter it said that the freeholder may not be the compentent landlord and that I should make other enquiries if I want as I won't get my money back if the freeholder isn't the competent landlord. (Nor if I decide not to carry on with the lease extension.) On my lease, which I've tried to read carefully, it says the leasor is someone other than the freeholder but then there's a mention of a transfer although the leasor isn't mentioned again but did sign it.
My real question is, I'm about to do an online land registry search on my own before I pay out the £300, will that tell me who the competent landlord is or will it just tell me who the freeholder is? If it won't tell me, how do I find out who the competent landlord is?
Any help and advice from anyone would be gratefully received. I have tried the lease-advice website but couldn't make head nor tale of what they were saying.
Cheers
D x
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No idea sorry - not my strong point this, if you post this on the property selling board there are loads of conveyancing experts on there that will answer your questionI am a Mortgage Adviser
You should note that this site doesn't check my status as a mortgage adviser, so you need to take my word for it. This signature is here as I follow MSE's Mortgage Adviser Code of Conduct. Any posts on here are for information and discussion purposes only and shouldn't be seen as financial advice.0 -
Just realised that I posted this in the wrong place and was about to remove it.
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