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Buying a house with Restrictive Covenant on it.

Muds1 · 2015-05-15 14:24:22

Hi All I am buying my first property and as I started dreaming about moving into the property I hit first roadblock.. So the offer accepted, mortgage approved.. I have received a contract paper from vendor's solicitors telling us about a Restrictive Covenant on the property. First of all - is this not a legal requirement…

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Muds1 Posts: 83 Forumite

16 May 2015 at 10:31AM

bclark wrote: »

I really wouldn't worry about it. We bought a new build a couple of years ago from Redrow and they gave us the list of usual covenants but on the sheet they actually had a statement at the top stating that there is legal debate whether they can actually enforce them so please try and sort any issues out amongst yourselves first.

We added a conservatory and just to avoid any issues we contacted them for permission. We had to pay £150 for a letter to say they are fine with it but they didn't really care, they just wanted their cash.

In my case covenant clearly mentions that's no fees can be chastened for any such permission.. Hence they don't have any interest whatsoever....

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