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Documents were found today and we are in the clear. Thanks for the advice dude! Maybe see you around Sydenham!
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glad it all worked out.
Sydenham? never go there...
its the odd naming round here as Penge common only got changed to Crystal palace after the big greenhouse got built but CP is tiny as Anerly/Penge/Norwood/Gypsy Hill/Sydenham hill are all really close.
Technically i’ll be in Dulwich Wood estate, the people in the big posh houses near Gipsy Hill will say they live in Dulwich....
Mr_Smyth
The Estate is probably better than most freeholders as they are not absent, have an estate office and yearly budget of a few million. also the residents are active with groups for each estate/block development so there is a bit of weight behind it’s leasholders.
sounds like your property may have always had a ground rent to the estate even though it was built by the council. (The estate website details it’s history if that is of interest) my current property built in 1986 is leashold but not to the estate so it was a bit of infil and likely sold to a developer, think we pay £30 or something a year to Dulwich.
Can’t believe they don’t have records as they would have collected on each propety since it was built even if it was bought under right to buy at a later date, can’t your seller just get indemnity insurance? it’s a few hundred quid, we will have to do this on my partners place as there is a missing document the land registry/Islington council cannot find from 1983 even though the current lease supersedes that.
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your property might be an ‘enfranchised property’.
https://www.thedulwichestate.org.uk/media/2281/the-managers-certificate-march-2021-signed.pdf
you will be on the red ‘compulsory acquired area on this map:
https://www.thedulwichestate.org.uk/about-us/celebrating-400-years/post-war-planning