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Freeholder delaying Leasehold Management pack

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Stalemate1123 · 08/06/2021 02:31

I'm in the process of selling my maisonette and things have been progressing well. The property is a leasehold and one of the requirements is to provide a leasehold management pack from the freeholder/management company.

I paid the fee for the management pack to the solicitor of the freeholder two months ago and since then we have been waiting for it. I tried multiple ways to get this moving - chasing directly, via my solicitor, via the freeholder's solicitor, via the estate agent, etc but things are at a standstill and the freeholder has provided no timescales for completing it.

To be clear, the freeholder is alive and well, and fully accessible. The buyer is a FTB and getting twitchy now. Two months is a long wait when everything else is already done.

Is there a way to expedite this?

Thanks.

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Livingintheclouds · 08/06/2021 06:24

I think this is one of the major hold ups in buying leasehold flats. It delayed one of my purchases by four months. It was just a building of six flats, but it was managed by a large firm responsible for dozens of buildings. There was no excuse - it is their business to provide these packs and the information should not be hard to collate and produce. I was buying with cash, the sellers were keen to go, the searches were fine, the survey did throw up issues but were readily addressed. The delay was the management pack.
Unfortunately there wasn't anything to be done- no amount of cajoling, chasing and so on seemed to help. I felt for the sellers who had young children, for me it was an investment flat so I didn't have such a tight schedule and could wait.
Again, it is the failing of our property buying system that there are no set timescales and penalties for unnecessary delays.

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