Need professional advice for your consent to let with Market Harborough Building Society? There are various implications when it comes to letting out your property with an existing residential mortgage - you should seek professional assistance.
My fiance and I may need to let our Wandsworth home for a while due to a career opportunity. This will be short-term but possibly for as long as five years. Do I inform Market Harborough Building Society or am I best advised to keep schtum?
There are numerous potential tax and legal (from restrictions on title, lease prohibitions to planning issues) implications when letting out your property. You should always seek the advice of a solicitor and accountant before letting out your property.
You must inform your buildings/contents insurer that you are letting your property and failing to do so can render any insurance you have invalid. Especially having public liability cover is very important as it protects you in the event of a third party being injured on your property, not having this leaves you open to claims made by tenants for personal injury or damage to their possessions arising from incidents connected with your property lack of consent to rent.
Should the tenure of your property be leasehold, the provisions in the lease may prevent you from letting or require that you to have a license to do so from the freeholder. If such conditions are not complied with you may be in violation of your covenants under the lease. This could trigger the freeholder commencing forfeiture proceedings.
Failure to advise your co-owner of your intention to let could result in them taking legal action against you. Be sure to obtain their consent in writing.