1. Service charge and ground rent enquiries
. The Seller must pay all service charges and where applicable, Ground Rent up to the date of completion. All enquiries regarding service charges and ground rent should be sent to the Accountants acting for the companies:- Skingle Helps & Co – Chartered Accountants; 28 Southway, Carshalton Beeches, Surrey, SM5 4HW. Telephone Number: 020 8770 1095; Fax Number 020 8770 1094; Email: admin@skingle.co.uk – attention of John or Lee Helps.
A cheque for £50 plus VAT should be enclosed, payable to Skingle Helps, for the administration fee. Additional fees will become payable if lengthy queries are raised.
2. Notices of Transfer and Mortgage
These should be sent to the solicitors acting for the companies – OGR Stock Denton (Attention: Catharine Woolhouse) – Winston House, 349 Regents Park Road, Finchley, London N3 1DH. DX57254 Finchley 2.
The following should be enclosed:-
1. Notices of the Transfer and any Mortgage.
2. Certified copies of the Transfer and any mortgage.
3. Registration fee of £75 plus VAT for each document registered. The cheque to be payable
To OGR Stock Denton .
Additional fees may become payable if lengthy queries are raised.
4. The covering letter should also make formal application for the Buyer to become a member of CCPM (limited by guarantee).
5. The underleases contain a restriction that no change of ownership was to be effected without a certificate from the Management Company (now CCPM) that the provisions of Clause 8 of the Third Schedule to the underlease have been complied with (no arrears/application for membership). This restriction does not appear on all the leasehold titles but where it does, OGR Stock Denton will provide that certificate on receipt of the above items; confirmation from Skingle Helps that there are no arrears, and payment of an additional fee of £75 plus VAT.
CCF Share Certificate
Sellers who are CCF shareholders should give their share certificate to the buyer. However if the certificate is mislaid, ownership of the flat will suffice to establish the buyer’s membership of CCF.(Paragraph 2.4 of CCF’s Memorandum of Association “in the event that a former unitholder fails to transfer a share…,his interest in those shares shall be deemed to have been transferred to the person or persons who have become the unitholder of his unit”)
CROWN CLOSE PROPERTY MANAGEMENT LIMITED (“CCPM”) (previously known as Lordship Lane (Minerva) Management Co Ltd
And CROWN CLOSE FREEHOLD LIMITED (“CCF”)(previously known as Crown Close Development Ltd)
GUIDANCE FOR FLAT OWNERS WHEN SELLING FLAT
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