Leasehold Purchase advice when Freeholder doesn't respond

eddddy

user1977 said:

The point about companies' registered offices is that you are entitled to serve official notices, writs etc at that address - whether they actually read or action any of that correspondence is up to them. But like I said, if it's the address they've always used since 2011, it would seem unlikely that everything is disappearing into a black hole.

Are you sure that applies in this case - a Landlord and Tenant matter?

In simple cases, the Landlord and Tenant Act requires landlords (freeholders) to provide an address to tenants (leaseholders) for the serving of notices.

I'd have thought serving a notice to a different address, other than the one provided by the landlord, could be a problem.



This case is more complicated because there is an intermediate landlord (head leaseholder) and a superior landlord (freeholder).

I'm not 100% sure of this, but I think the intermediate landlord has a duty to inform the tenant of the superior landlord's address, and changes of address (for serving notices). 

If so, the OP should look back through correspondence from the head leaseholder (or maybe contact the head leaseholder) for any details of the freeholder's address for serving notices.

user1977

eddddy said:

user1977 said:

The point about companies' registered offices is that you are entitled to serve official notices, writs etc at that address - whether they actually read or action any of that correspondence is up to them. But like I said, if it's the address they've always used since 2011, it would seem unlikely that everything is disappearing into a black hole.

Are you sure that applies in this case - a Landlord and Tenant matter?

Not particularly, more of a general point that a company's registered office is (for almost all purposes) treated as being a legitimate service address, and that if you have delivered something to a legitimate service address, whether or not the recipient has actually opened/read it needn't be of concern.