How to find out who manages leasehold on 100 year old house

andystewart81

Hello,

My partner owns a house which was build over 100 years ago - the propery is leasehold. She hasn't received a letter since 2016 asking for ground rent - she wants to make sure there isn't a large debt building up so we found the last letter she received and tried to find the management company - it looks like they no longer exist.

I've bought the land registry title document which shows:

Date : 11 July 1884
Term : 999 years (less 3 days) from 24 December 1876
Rent : £2.4s.10d
Parties : (1) The Bury District Co-operative Provision Society
Limited
(2) Richard Henry Smethurst

Googling the two parties doesn't come up with anything helpful - do you guys have any idea how we find out who is managing the lease on behalf of the owners? Will the land registry know?

Thanks in advance for your help

AdrianC

Land Registry will only know if the freehold is registered. If it's not changed hands in the last 30yrs or so, it won't be.

I doubt a maximum of six years' worth of £2.24/year, a total of £13.44, is much to worry about, though.