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Anybody to blame or just one of those things?

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  • kirtondm
    kirtondm Posts: 436 Forumite
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    The key problem for me would be the lack of freeholder consent - I am guessing that is why the solicitor is urging caution

    Make Freeholders consent a condition of proceeding - They should have declared this earlier
  • Ronaldo_Mconaldo
    Ronaldo_Mconaldo Posts: 5,197 Forumite
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    Insurance will cover that too
  • G_M
    G_M Posts: 51,977 Forumite
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    Yes - why are you buying a 4 bed leasehold house?

    Cut your losses and find a freehold property you like.
  • SG27
    SG27 Posts: 2,773 Forumite
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    The freehold /leasehold issue aside. I would not be at all botherd by a 15 year garage conversion with no building regs. Those regs would be totaly obsolete now anyway. I personally wouldnt bother with insurance either. Unless you get the vendor to pay?
  • chappers
    chappers Posts: 2,988 Forumite
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    Ronaldo_Mconaldo wrote: »
    Insurance will cover that too
    But you could still lose your room if the freeholder insists, you will be recompensed financially but that's it.
    The freeholder doesn't have a timeframe for enforcement, like the planners and building control
  • cloo
    cloo Posts: 1,291 Forumite
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    I'd just get indemnity to CYA, and get on with it. Providing your lease is over 90 years... less than that might be a worry.
  • [Deleted User]
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    Leasehold house = run for the hills.

    If this falls through because of the garage consider you've had a lucky escape.
  • ProDave
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    I hadn't spotted the leasehold bit.

    Why anybody would buy a leasehold house beats me. Walk away, find a freehold house instead.
  • gax23
    gax23 Posts: 205 Forumite
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    Got to agree with what’s already been said. I used to do a lot of work for a solicitor who specialised in leaseholds and I wouldn’t touch a leasehold house with a bargepole.
  • davemorton
    davemorton Posts: 29,066 Forumite
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    Again, why is everyone against a leasehold? Many homes are leasehold but they are not the the sort you see in the headlines all the time. 999 year lease (-years since the house was built, so -48 for the house I am sitting in) and a lease of about £3 a year.
    The lease could be bought for a few hundred/grand, but not worth it.
    “Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?”
    Juvenal, The Sixteen Satires
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