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Old 6th May 2008, 08:05 PM
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Anyone know a good website or contact for rules and regs for foreign buyers? I want to buy a flat in London (I'm an American) but I'm having a hell of a time locating basic info like if I'm allowed to, what "chain forward" and "leasehold vs. freehold" are, and all the other muck that seems to be associated with buying. Alternately, will someone just give me their flat in Mayfair? worth asking isn't it?

Dare I ask...is there an estate agent lurking around in here?
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Hi Knelly555,

I'm not an estate agent but I am a property investor from the UK (now in Australia).

I found several sites with property glossaries so you can take your pick...

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Freehold is when you own the building and the land underneath it.

Leasehold is the right to live in a property for a set amount of time. This tends to apply to apartments although it is now popular for some apartments to share the freehold so that the owners have more control. When buying an apartment you always need to know the length of the lease since as the lease gets shorter the value of the property can go down since there is a cost to renewing a lease.

I've not heard of chain forward although I know chain free.

The chain refers to chain of people involved in a house sale that are dependent upon each other. For example house C may only be sold when both house B and house A are sold and they all have to complete on the same day.
If house sale B fell through then that would affect the whole chain.

Chain free is when someone is buying and has nothing to sell. They are a valuable commodity because they end (or start ) the chain. For example an ideal situation is that someone is buying my house that has been pre-approved for a mortgage, and has nothing to sell so that I'm not at the mercy of other house sales.

I hope that helps,
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Very helpful! Thanks. I wonder if you saw my other post about the Docklands area? I'd love your input on that too.
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Very helpful! Thanks. I wonder if you saw my other post about the Docklands area? I'd love your input on that too.
I did see it but I don't know much about the Docklands area since that was never an area we looked at. When we were looking at buying property for investment we never bothered with London since we could get a better % return outside London.

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