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bluefortress | 23:27 Mon 03rd Feb 2025 | Home & Garden
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What is your opinion on estage mamagement fees on new build estates?

I am looking at buying a home but would have to pay £170 per year for up keep of the estate, of course the figure could increase over time. Thing is tje plot I am looking at is not near any public grass, Im single so dont have kids using the play area or anything. Id feel Im paying more for others but maybe im wrong

 

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completely on thetinwrong tack

I mean try negotiating

what you SHOULD be lookiing at re the mgt fees and thinking can these beome astronomical preventing me from selling

and then keep away from such devices of the devil

Management fees are a minefield - you have absolutely no control over future rises.  The only possibility is a strong residents' association who are prepared for joint action (in witholding payment). Good luck.

my usual advice - go elsewhere

BUT the danger of getting screwed CAN be converted to a discount ( still keep away - still go elsewher)

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See the fees are everywhere these days if you want a new build. 
 

I think the amount should depend on if you have kids or not. As Im not going to go and play on the park or play footy on the grass sm I

Builders having been prevented from selling houses that are leasehold, have come up with this rouse to fleece buyers.  Eventually the Estate Management will be sold off to some investment company, who will keep hiking the fees each year for doing nothing.

 

If I was to consider buying such a property, a condition of me purchasing the property would be that these fees would never be applied to the property I bought (or to those I sold it to) – otherwise I ain’t buying.

See the fees are everywhere these days if you want a new build. 

oh OK

then it must be OK to buy

If I were to consider buying such a property, a condition o.......otherwise I ain’t buying.

I imagine  they wd show you the door and turn to the next sucker

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Peter I found your last reply to be childish. 
 

Hymie, yes it would at least help if there was some cap I believe there have been requests for this to the government but of course they turned down. 

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Canary, thanks hah, yea the modern world is just a rip off left right and centre. It is out of order and smart to avoid

Why do you want a new build, especially on an estate? My idea of hell.  If you don't want to pay the fees you will either have to buy an older house; buy a plot of land and self build or buy a new house that is not on a new estate. Near me, two houses are being built on land where a shop once stood. No management fees.

Either oayitorliok somewhere else. Someone has to cut the grass ... not just for children to play on but to stop the grass growing wild and looking a mess.

 

Spellchecker/ autopredict/ autocorrect had a field day there.

It should start ...pay it or look somewhere else...

I thought management fees were due to the councils' refusal to accept responsibility for maintaining the public areas. They make it a condition of the planning consent that the applicants will mow and weed, provide and maintain play areas, do the gully sucking - all the things the councils have to do otherwise.

Many new estates are entitled 'unadopted' by the councils, meaning the roads, pavements, street lighting etc have to be maintained by the applicants - ultimately the residents who also pay full council tax.

 

If you don't like it / don't think it's fair then look to buy elsewhere. As it is it will be a constant source of annoyance for you which will get worse if the charge increases substantially.

//If I were to consider buying such a property, a condition o.......otherwise I ain’t buying.

I imagine  they wd show you the door and turn to the next sucker//

 

Would the house builder really turndown a sale of circa £300k for the loss of £170 p.a (which will eventually turn in to £1,000s), that they would never see, having sold the management fees to an investment company (with me excluded)?

I doubt if they would negotiate away the mgmt fee on individual properties. It will be a case of like it or lump it.

I have no experience of such a thing but I wonder: are these fees because the council have reduced the domestic rates since they aren't looking after this estate themselves ? And if not, why not ?

 

It sort of sounds like a situation one would avoid at all costs.

Yeah my back lane is apparently "unadopted". To me that always seems an unacceptable dereliction of duty by the council. It was treating the owners of some properties differently to the owners of others. There ought to be a law against it.  It never occurred to me it was a thing when, as a young man, I opted to buy the place.

OG, people paying management fees still pay full council tax

My family lived in Blackburn - there was one area where most of the roads were council maintained but some streets with houses on both sides were (inexplicably to me) "unadopted" and still had the original cobblestones deteriorating with age and use to become almost undriveable. Seemed crazy.

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