Nope. Shall do so today, in respect of the new one, though. The actual sale contracts I did read pre-signing, and honestly there was nothing in the first one to make it obvious.I appreciate that buying and selling properties is quite stressful with lots of things going on but did you never ask for a copy of the contract or deed for either property? Either of these would have made the nature of the title very clear to you.
mf
On a totally unrelated topic, I heard someone on the radio say recently that developers and solicitors needed to do more to explain to their clients what was involved in a Management Company scheme. As above. "wooden floorboards and floaty curtains". You may as well be talking to the wall.
mf
Natch!I think you may be an exceptional client!!!
I'll own up to a distinct interest in wooden floorboards (floaty curtains and cats don't mix, though!), but they can wait until I'm quite sure of the property's status. Perhaps part of the reason I'm keen to be quite sure of title and want freehold is that I have friends who needed to acquire their freehold in order to renovate a property, and because it was an old leasehold it had got lost in the mists of time... it ended up taking them over four years to get the freehold sorted. The types of leasehold in my two transactions, by contrast, are quite straightforward, and I suppose that's why the solicitors didn't feel the need to draw it to our attention. Importantly, however, I do trust my solicitor - I was just a bit narked (and quite as much at myself for making assumptions, I should admit) by my belated discovery.I think its kind of shocking but I can hand on heart say that most of my clients are more interested in wooden floorboards and floaty curtains than the title to their property.
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