Sounds like the seller did not forward the June statement / bill, and can be understandable if they are moving out, and maybe forgot to forward, but the freeholder will have know about all the curent and proposed service charges, and if asked ( Note :- if asked ) to produce costs for works not yet started, but part of the service charges, freeholder would have forwarded these costs to you.
If they did not, then they are not at fault, as they don't have to answer any questions from the buyer.
If there is planned maintenence, or proposed maintenence, or items deemed to need doing after you bought the lease, but not yet started, and not yet paid for, then as you are the leaseholders, you are responsible to pay for maintenence, or any works that have been planned to be undertaken, but not yet started.
Like a car, "he did not tell me it needed a Full service, new tyres and an expensive gearbox in 3 months time, when I bought the car"
Car belongs to you, you pay for the repairs and maintenence, and not the previous owner.
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Your conveyancing solicitor should be answering the questions you have raised. its normal for buyer's conveyancing solicitor to make enquiries with freeholder on the cost of planned works before any exchange contracts.Leave a comment:
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Major Works after buying a Flat
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Please would someone be able to help me. We recently purchase an ex local authority flat this month, the freeholder is a SE London council.
When we purchased the flat we were told that there was a service charge apportionment as we were completing during the financial year. We agreed to pay the vendor a portion of the annual service charge. The situation arose as on exchange/completion day (same day exchange and completion), we were only given the amount on email without the freeholder statement. As the amount was only £652 we were not too concerned and was happy to complete on this basis.
We were sent afterwards the statement which does show the remaining amount as £652 however there was a current balance of around £3,000 in respect of major works which was billed in June 2015.
Although we haven't been chased by the freeholder I'm woried that the major works plus any new major works bills we might be liable for. We never agreed or was asked during the purchase transaction to pay any of the major works and am taken aback by this.
Can anyone advise where we stand and if we ae liable considering we completed in July 15 and these were billed in June. Additionally if new major works bill arose which I assume would have been tendored for previously would be also be liable? I have read that you can go to theTrubuneral?
Any help or advice would be greatly appreiciated.
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Reply to Responsibility on my freeholdHas this extension already been built?
If so, what was agreed when the co-freeholder asked for permission to extend?
If not, you can probably withhold permission unless they agree to take full responsibility for the roof in future (and might even be able to demand a premium from them).07-07-2022, 06:44 AM -
I am joint freeholder with the property upstairs and have had issues with our roof leaking. After many repairs paying my 50% to the cost, the upstairs owner has decided to extend into the loft space and onto 50% of the flat roof at the back. I thought this would reduce the cost to me to the front of...05-07-2022, 20:44 PM
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The first question that needs to be answered has to be:
"Does the lease allow the freeholder to replace the radiators in the property?"
If the answer to this is "No" (e.g. if the leases specifically exclude radiators within the property from the definition of 'conduits',...07-07-2022, 06:34 AM -
Thank you in advance for your time to reply to my question.
This relates to an 85 year old couple and I would appreciate your help.
Background information:
This relates to an estate for the over 55s - a RMC that owns the freehold and it was set up for the benefit of the residents...06-07-2022, 11:51 AM -
If someone has left the filling loop open then that’s pretty dangerous! Most systems only run at 1bar and will dump any pressure over that amount. Mains pressure is a lot higher and a heating system isn’t designed for that....06-07-2022, 22:18 PM
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An external water leak via a very short inward-curving pipe from an upstairs maisonette (owned by a freeholder, but inhabited by rental tenants) is pouring water down the outside wall of my kitchen (I am a leaseholder).
This water is making its way into my internal kitchen wall, probably...06-07-2022, 14:44 PM -
I'm only going to respond very briefly now. You need to be distinguishing three completely separate things.
a) Whether the works are the responsibility of the lessor to carry out.
b) Whether they need to be carried out, and if so whether the procedure was followed.
c) Whether...06-07-2022, 20:09 PM -
Are you reasonably handy? I would run a length of downpipe from the overflow into the hopper head. Though if it was me I'd have turned their water off as soon as they started being awkward....06-07-2022, 17:59 PM
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Sounds to me like your neighbour is trying to wind up his landlord.06-07-2022, 17:10 PM
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As said the short inward curving pipe is the boiler overpressure overflow.
There will be a 'filling loop' usually underneath.the boiler.
It is used to repressure the heating system if the pressure falls through bleeding radiators etc.
It usually has a quarter turn valve...06-07-2022, 16:37 PM
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