Buying a house with a separate garage

Ianthomas425

Hi im just wondering if anyone can help im in the middle of buying a freehold house with a separate leasehold garage but my problem is the owner of the leasehold is the previous owner of the house not the current owner.
There are two separate titles for the house and garage.
The lease owner says they will sell us the lease for £10k im wondering if this is aloud or should the garage lease have been transferred over with the house sale to the current owner.
Thanks

Silvertabby

Can't help with the legalities, but how far away from the house is the garage? Would having the garage (or not) be a deal breaker?

If it's (a) not on your land and (b) you don't really need it I'd tell the leaseholder to swivel. If they want that much just to transfer the lease, how much would the annual cost be?

scottishblondie

Ianthomas425 wrote: »

The lease owner says they will sell us the lease for £10k im wondering if this is aloud or should the garage lease have been transferred over with the house sale to the current owner.

There is nothing to stop the house and garage being sold separately if they are on separate titles. Did the person selling the house think that the leasehold of garage belonged to them? If so then they should be chasing down the solicitor they used for their purchase to find out why the leasehold wasn't transferred to them at the time. It could have been an error, or it wasn't included in their purchase at all.

TBagpuss

Ianthomas425 wrote: »

Hi im just wondering if anyone can help im in the middle of buying a freehold house with a separate leasehold garage but my problem is the owner of the leasehold is the previous owner of the house not the current owner.
There are two separate titles for the house and garage.
The lease owner says they will sell us the lease for £10k im wondering if this is aloud or should the garage lease have been transferred over with the house sale to the current owner.
Thanks

Yes, it is allowed. there are two separate titles so there can be (as there are) 2 separate owners.

Whether the garage should have been trnaferred to your seller when they bought the house is nothing to do with you, if's purely betweenthem and the person they bought from.

If the house was advertised with the garage and you made an offer on the understanding that it would include the garage, then you would need to speak to you surveyor to find out what the value of the house without the garage is, and then negotiate with the seller to either reduce the house price by £10K (or whatever the difference in value of the hosue with and without a garage is)

If they made clear that it was separate from day one then you can look into whether £10K is a resonable price for garage in your area and if so, buy the garage separately, and if not, say 'no thanks'

If you can't reach an agreement, and don't wnat the house without either thegarage or an appropriate price reduction then you are free to walk away and buy a different property.