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Hi all,
Excuse me if my terminology isn't standard!
Having some issues selling my house. Its leasehold, managed by Simarc.
We purchased in 2015 with a small conservatory already there. Easy 10 years old. Our solicitor at the time didn't pick up on anything. Time has come for us to sell and we were informed we would need to take out an indemnity policy as this is a breach of restricted covenant. We then received a letter from Simarc informing us that we need to apply for retrospective consent. £90 for the application.
Obviously not happy, we contacted our previous solicitor to ask what had happened in 2015? Eventually they got back to us to tell us there was no breach as conservatory is not built on the front of the house/building line.
Application has been made, as we need to exchange soon.
Our solicitor emailed us saying she had sat down with some colleagues and believes the wording in the lease isn't clear and we very much have a case to dispute all of this.
Now the charges we are expected to pay are around the 500 mark. Is it really worth fighting this and would this mean an even longer delay?
Part of me wants to just pay this and be done with it, the hardworking roadsweeper in me does not want to pay these clowns another penny.
Has anyone had any experiences with something similar?
Regards. Mike
Excuse me if my terminology isn't standard!
Having some issues selling my house. Its leasehold, managed by Simarc.
We purchased in 2015 with a small conservatory already there. Easy 10 years old. Our solicitor at the time didn't pick up on anything. Time has come for us to sell and we were informed we would need to take out an indemnity policy as this is a breach of restricted covenant. We then received a letter from Simarc informing us that we need to apply for retrospective consent. £90 for the application.
Obviously not happy, we contacted our previous solicitor to ask what had happened in 2015? Eventually they got back to us to tell us there was no breach as conservatory is not built on the front of the house/building line.
Application has been made, as we need to exchange soon.
Our solicitor emailed us saying she had sat down with some colleagues and believes the wording in the lease isn't clear and we very much have a case to dispute all of this.
Now the charges we are expected to pay are around the 500 mark. Is it really worth fighting this and would this mean an even longer delay?
Part of me wants to just pay this and be done with it, the hardworking roadsweeper in me does not want to pay these clowns another penny.
Has anyone had any experiences with something similar?
Regards. Mike
