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I own a ground floor flat with a lovely tenant in a 1990s leasehold property. The property is day-to-day managed by a local estate agent, and we pay £1200 a year to a very famous national property management company.
We have had significant problems with leaks from the flats above into...
I think we don't understand each other.
- OP is complaining that electricity charges in 2021 which had not yet been invoiced or appeared in a service charge were higher than anticipated.
- He bought the lease at the start of 2022
- Service charge items from 2021 were invoiced later...
It was where you said: "I cannot see how you could possibly have a valid claim" which puzzled me. Unless the OP's conveyancer has messed up, the contract should provide for the OP to recover the sum demanded....
I purchased a leasehold in early 2022, all outstanding service charges and fees were settled by previous owner during the conveyance.
However, due to rising costs in energy ect, the managing agents have made all residents aware that there was a large increase in 2021. They...
The OP seems to be complaining that they are paying services charges that are due on retrospective expenditure (retrospective to their purchase of the lease). But that is almost always the case.
Thanks. I have no idea if other people in the building are complaining. I have a friend who's a conveyancer and she says that the leaseholders are well known nationally for charging high fees, dragging their feet with paperwork and basically scalping people without doing anything...
Hi, I hope I can write this in a clear way that makes sense!
We bought a leaseholders flat in 2016, the next year we bought the limited company that held the freehold. This was done as no other leaseholder were interested in buying the freehold a few months prior to us buying our leasehold...
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