We're buying a house - should be completing next week but there's a problem... half of the garden on the new property is not showing as part of the title. Current owners think they pay a ground rent on it, but they don't - we don't know who owns it. But, anecdotally we have been told that the patch of land has been incorporated into the garden for at least 25 years. We'd be bloody unlucky for someone to turn up and demand we hand it over to them.
What to do?
Should we try to negotiate a drop in price to account for the fact that we're not buying all that we thought and will have the inconvenience of sorting this piece of land out and getting it included in our title?
Should we just sod it and carry on as before?
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Buying house - part of garden not included on title deeds - help?
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greenfieldgirl · 26/10/2012 13:56
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