Hi all,
I'm contacting for advice on behalf of my elderly mum. She lives in a ground floor flat , in a house conversion (end of terrace). Her freeholder lives in the flat upstairs.
The area under the ground floor stairs - has been boarded up so that it can be used as a cupboard which can be accessed from the communal side passage.
Mums leases and deeds are unclear about who owns the cupboard.
We think at some point it was a shared cupboard, as it can be accessed by both flats, but mums never had the key.
We think that when the previous owner of my mums flat died - the freeholder updated his own lease and freehold to include the cupboard as solely his - as at that point nobody could dispute it.
However, when my mum bought the flat - there is no wording at all referring to who the cupboard belongs to, the area under the stairs has been hatched in as belonging to mum, with only an intelligible blob on her lease plan, written over the area under the stairs.
Is there any cheap way to find out who the area under the stairs belongs to?? 👀