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Its on the Dulwich estate, it’s down the road from me (both where i am now and where we are trying to buy)
I pay a ground rent to Dulwich and the new place (touch wood) is leasehold owned by them and built for the estate by Wates/Austin Vernon the estate architect, think the Kingswood estate was built by Camberwel/LCC if my local history is correct.Oh and welcome to the hood.
Mr_Smyth-
Thanks mate! Looking forward to being there!
It could be good to pick your brain maybe. Basically, the house is freehold, and the freehold was purchased from The Dulwich Estate in 1979 (i think), but my solicitor doesn't know if there was either any ground rent owed before the freehold purchase, or if there has been any costs owed to them since then.
I think the estate is struggling to find any records in answer to my solicitors enquiries, and when the house is transferred to us, any monies owed would be as well. Apparently in ordinary circumstances you can put a covenant in the purchase agreement that mitigates against this, but the house is being sold by the executor of a will, so it is proving to be difficult to go down this road.
Did you have any experience with the estate struggling to find records? Or whether it would have been difficult for a resident to dodge paying them ground rent (obv you wont have experience of it in the 70s!)?
fly
Haha! Still haven't completed dude. Before now (hopefully) the house hadnt been sold since 1967, and prior to that it was a freehold from the some big land owning charitable body in Dulwich. Solicitors are struggling to find out whether everything was above board back then!
Anyway. here is the little shithole! https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/121912016#/?channel=RES_BUY
(we are not paying asking...)