splitting a house into two flats,, help please

Ozzuk

I had the opposite scenario, turned two flats into a house. One thing that springs to mind - I think a lawful conversion includes assessment for fire safety - certain windows for instance need to be escape points (fully opening, some route down) IIRC, especially if you only have one main door. More food for thought!

Tiglet2

This property needs the title register to be split into two, thereby giving each flat their own title number. The solicitor may be able to do this at the same time as selling the flat of course but at the moment it sounds like you have a freehold house, not two leasehold properties.

eddddy

Ozzuk wrote: »

I had the opposite scenario, turned two flats into a house. One thing that springs to mind - I think a lawful conversion includes assessment for fire safety - certain windows for instance need to be escape points (fully opening, some route down) IIRC, especially if you only have one main door. More food for thought!

That (and a whole raft of other building regs) would be relevant if the OP was converting a house into flats today.

However, the OP is suggesting that the house may have converted into flats 25 years ago. Building regulations were different then - and breaches of building regs 25 years ago probably can't be enforced now.

If the house really was 'converted' into flats 25 years ago - the OP might not have to do anything at all.

But if the house wasn't really 'converted' (e.g. instead, one tenant lived in the upstairs of a house, and the other tenant lived in the downstairs of the house), the OP could face a shed-load of problems.