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Selling a flat but not the loft
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A flat lease is typically the space and the plaster windows and doors, the rest is owned by the landlord usually the freeholder.
Loft access is usually for maintenance access , old fashioned water tanks aerials etc, or for storage only.
Do read this
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/4754355Stop! Think. Read the small print. Trust nothing and assume that it is your responsibility. That way it rarely goes wrong.
Actively hunting down the person who invented the imaginary tenure, "share freehold"; if you can show me one I will produce my daughter's unicorn0 -
no ownership means you don't have to deal with repairs. Why do you want the loft? For storage are you thinking you can make another room?
Even if you owned the loft you can't really make another room without permission from the freeholder/other flat owners.0 -
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Thanks, I just found the situation odd.
The agent didn't say it belonged to freeholder or management co, he made out it belonged to the vendor, saying he's stored stuff there. The tenant was there when I viewed too and she said she has never seen the current owner.
I find it bizarre that if it is access for communal stuff, why inside a specific flat and not the large landing or any other flat on that floor?!
I'll pass on the flat on the basis that it's way too small anyway (loft would have been to storage), and the loft situation certainly has put me off.0 -
Thanks, I just found the situation odd.
The agent didn't say it belonged to freeholder or management co, he made out it belonged to the vendor, saying he's stored stuff there. The tenant was there when I viewed too and she said she has never seen the current owner.
I find it bizarre that if it is access for communal stuff, why inside a specific flat and not the large landing or any other flat on that floor?!
I'll pass on the flat on the basis that it's way too small anyway (loft would have been to storage), and the loft situation certainly has put me off.
Hhm if it's for access to water tanks / TV Areal with access needed only in exceptional circumstances that is one thing, but I'd be less keen on the freeholder using it for storage.0 -
puppypants wrote: »Gosh, I didn't realise there was a snob value in HUTH!!:D
None whatsoever in it, but rubbishing it is standard practice, particularly on that other board.
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