Legal issue with buying the freehold to my house-need advice

[5 wh]

Ive got into a bit of a pickle buying the freehold to my house and was wondering if any of the helpful legal guys on here could assist.

3 years ago I decided to buy the freehold so obtained and agreed a price with the current freeholder. They then sent a TR1 property transfer for for me to sign and also the management company for the housing estate my home is on.

After a lot of tooing and froing the management company decided that they would not sign the TR1 as they felt that various clauses relating to the estate were missing (stuff like no for sale boards,no caravans etc)

Current freeholder then annexes the various clauses to the TR1 and the management company will still not sign as they feel the clauses should be included and not annexed on as they could be lost or forgotten further down the line.

Again more tooing and froing resulting in the freeholder refusing to amend the TR1 and management company refusing to sign.

More time passes then the freeholder decides to cancel the purchase but retain their legal fees that I had to pay as part of agreeing to buy the freehold!

So Im stuck at the moment. Their legal fees are around £1000 which isn’t a massive amount but dont see why I should have to forfeit this due to this not being anything to do with me.

My conveyancing solicitor is not able to deal with the problem but referred me to a ‘Law Share Scheme’ solicitor - they want £1500 just to review the correspondence, which could mean I end up throwing good money after bad.

Im a bit stuck really - what is my best way forward …..?

[Panamax]

5 wh said:

My conveyancing solicitor is not able to deal with the problem but referred me to a Law Share Scheme solicitor - they want £1500 just to review the correspondence,

This sounds as though you engaged the wrong conveyancing solicitor. Who exactly is it? How did you find them?
One way or another you need need to get somebody competent on the job.

[Panamax]

5 wh said:

referred me to a Law Share Scheme solicitor - they want £1500 just to review the correspondence

Check out this link. If that's what's meant it appears to make no sense,
https://www.jmw.co.uk/lawshare

[Wings]

Leasehold Advisory Service (link below), a government funded, independent advice for Leaseholders. Offers free phone call legal advice, the same call/s with solicitors.


https://www.lease-advice.org

[5 wh]

Wings said:

Leasehold Advisory Service (link below), a government funded, independent advice for Leaseholders. Offers free phone call legal advice, the same call/s with solicitors.


https://www.lease-advice.org

Ive looked at these guys but the earliest free 15 min telephone slot appointment they have is 17th July.

The problem with that is the freeholder has now sent me an invoice for the ground rent to be paid by 1st July (they suspended the ground rent charge when I agreed to buy the freehold) and I d imagine they ll do their usual thing of adding admin fees for letters etc of if I don t pay by 1st July so probably need to make a decision to abort or force the issue before then.

[5 wh]

Panamax said:

Check out this link. If that's what's meant it appears to make no sense,
https://www.jmw.co.uk/lawshare

It’s a kick back arrangement for smaller solicitors to offer extended services beyond their remit by using a larger firm whilst not risking JMW poaching the client. Not free for the client sadly (probably more expensive as the fee will include the kick back)

[OIC]

This sounds like the sort of situation that can be resolved in 5 minutes with a face to face meeting between you, the current freeholder and the management agency.

When you've reached an agreement, each party then instructs their snake solicitor to fill in the forms.

The mistake you've made is letting the snakes pass the parcel between themselves at your expense (time & money).

But yes, primarily your conveyancing snake solicitor is the retard in this lineup by the sounds of it.