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Title register - restrictive covenants?

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I made an offer on a property and I am looking at the title register (the £3 one) and it has the following:

C: Charges Register
This register contains any charges and other matters that affect the land.
1 A Transfer of the land in this title dated 20 June 1986 made between (1) Fairhome Investments Limited and others (2) STREET NAME Management Association Limited and (3) RANDOM NAME A and RANDOM NAME B contains restrictive covenants. NOTE: Original filed. 

I am not sure if this is a worrying point? This is a freehold property and the fact the charges register is referring to the "STREET NAME management association" is a little odd. Is there anyway to find out more about this or should I just wait for the solicitor to look through the deeds?
No restrictive covenants are shown on the title register.

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  • greatcrested
    greatcrested Posts: 5,925 Forumite
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    edited 6 July 2020 at 1:17PM
    You will need oobtain and read the "Transfer of the land in this title dated 20 June 1986".
    As the Land Registry have this ("Original filed") you can apply for a copy by post for £6 using form OC2.
  • AdrianC
    AdrianC Posts: 42,189 Forumite
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    sync94 said:
    I made an offer on a property and I am looking at the title register (the £3 one) and it has the following:

    C: Charges Register
    This register contains any charges and other matters that affect the land.
    1 A Transfer of the land in this title dated 20 June 1986 made between (1) Fairhome Investments Limited and others (2) STREET NAME Management Association Limited and (3) RANDOM NAME A and RANDOM NAME B contains restrictive covenants. NOTE: Original filed. 

    I am not sure if this is a worrying point? This is a freehold property and the fact the charges register is referring to the "STREET NAME management association" is a little odd. Is there anyway to find out more about this or should I just wait for the solicitor to look through the deeds?
    No restrictive covenants are shown on the title register.
    All that says is that there are some restrictive covenants, and they're detailed on another sheet which the LR have a copy of. Yes, your solicitor will go through them as a matter of course.

    Given that there's a management association involved, you can assume they're probably actively "policed". Which means they're unlikely to be anything particularly bizarre or onerous, and you can get a reasonable idea of what is permitted simply by looking at the street now. 
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