Looking for some help.
I have come across a property in the Caribbean next door to my own in a gated community, it was getting run down and I wanted to touch base with the owners to get them to tidy it up bit.
I got in touch with the management company looking for the owners details, they came back telling me that it's company policy not to give out owners details, but did divulge that the owner was deceased and on inspection that the deeds in Land Registry still had them listed as the owners.
I argued that GDPR generally doesn't cover the deceased, but they were not moving on their position, on checking Land Registry the management company is the owner of record, I checked the Property Tax records and the last time property tax was paid it was paid by the management company. I have also asked the housing association but they don't have ownership details for the property.
The management company have said that they have passed my details onto the representatives of the deceased and let them know that I wish to touch base with them but I haven't heard anything in the past 6 months despite fortnightly emails. The sceptic in me thinks that the management company don't want the representatives to know about the property and they hope to acquire the property by way of a lien for unpaid management charges, also the representatives might have been aware of a property in the Caribbean but searches through Land Registry proved fruitless. So my question is can I bring any to bear on the management company so that they divulge the true owners details.
The Caribbean country is in the commonwealth so pretty much English law.1
I have come across a property in the Caribbean next door to my own in a gated community, it was getting run down and I wanted to touch base with the owners to get them to tidy it up bit.
I got in touch with the management company looking for the owners details, they came back telling me that it's company policy not to give out owners details, but did divulge that the owner was deceased and on inspection that the deeds in Land Registry still had them listed as the owners.
I argued that GDPR generally doesn't cover the deceased, but they were not moving on their position, on checking Land Registry the management company is the owner of record, I checked the Property Tax records and the last time property tax was paid it was paid by the management company. I have also asked the housing association but they don't have ownership details for the property.
The management company have said that they have passed my details onto the representatives of the deceased and let them know that I wish to touch base with them but I haven't heard anything in the past 6 months despite fortnightly emails. The sceptic in me thinks that the management company don't want the representatives to know about the property and they hope to acquire the property by way of a lien for unpaid management charges, also the representatives might have been aware of a property in the Caribbean but searches through Land Registry proved fruitless. So my question is can I bring any to bear on the management company so that they divulge the true owners details.
The Caribbean country is in the commonwealth so pretty much English law.1