Service charge/maintenance fee?

Service charge/maintenance fee?

0:01 AM, 29th November 2023, About 6 months ago 11

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Hello, recently I extended my lease, after that my freeholder wanted to charge me £100 for maintenance/ service charge yearly.

However, according to my lease, there is no clause saying that I need to pay this £100, therefore I refused to pay this.

Now my freeholder keeps adding £100 to my invoice every year and is not sending my insurance certificate. Any advice from Property118 readers would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Soma


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Kizzie

23:15 PM, 30th December 2023, About 5 months ago

Service charge for maintenance costs set out in the lease and payable to whoever the lease states is the landlord to be held in a section 42 landlord & tenant act separate from company accounts.
Ground rent is not service charge and is payable to the freeholder in return for granting the lease and extension.
You MUST pay ground rent otherwise your lease will be forfeit by the freeholder in the civil court claim for unpaid debt.

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