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Claiming interest in a property you don’t own
alex864
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Hi, I am in the process of purchasing a property and my partner will be moving in as well. I am the sole owner and have made it clear to him that I want to remain the sole owner of this property. I told him that I do not want him to contribute towards mortgage payments/ service charge/ ground rent but I will expect him to cover half of the bills and the food costs and he agreed. As I am only buying a one bed flat, we agreed that in the future we want to buy a house together and he would use the money he’d be saving as opposed to as if he was paying rent somewhere else towards the deposit of the new house. My question is, if we separate, can he claim any interest at all in my flat? I know the best way is to have a cohabitation agreement but after paying the deposit, solicitors etc I cannot really afford an extra 1k in drafting this agreement at this moment in time plus it’s not that of an expensive property (only £156k) he would actually care not to lose but you never know what people would do out of spite.
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