Buying a Freehold
Under the Leasehold Reform, Housing and Urban Development Act 1993 a group of leaseholders who are interested in buying a freehold of a building, can enforce the sale.
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Buying the Freehold (Collective Enfranchisement)
The right provided by the Leasehold Reform Housing and Urban Development Act 1993 is for the enforced sale of the freehold of the building, to the nominee purchaser of a group of leaseholders of the flats who represent at least half of the flats in the building.
If a freeholder’s land extends over or under someone else’s land, then he or she has a flying freehold. An example of this would be an attic which reaches over the adjoining property. Another would be a cellar which spreads out under the neighbour’s property.
The landlord must serve his Counter-Notice by the date specified in the Initial Notice; this must....
