Areas We Cover
We buy leasehold flats across England and Wales, with most of our purchases in London. Our area guides cover the local issues and quirks that affect a flat sale in each place.
Most of the flats we buy are in London. The capital has the highest concentration of leasehold flats in the UK and the widest mix of the situations we specialise in: short leases, ex-council blocks, converted houses, buildings with unresolved cladding or fire safety work, and the slow freeholders that come with the larger managed estates.
We also buy flats outside London, across England and Wales. The principles are the same. The local quirks are different, and as we add area guides this section will grow to cover the most common issues in each place.
For now there is one area guide, covering London. The rest of this hub points to the types of flat we buy and to how the process works.
More area guides will be added as they are written.
The full guide to selling a leasehold flat in London: the sale routes, the legal hurdles that come up most in the capital (cladding, EWS1 forms, slow managing agents, large managed estates), realistic timescales, costs, what drives the valuation and a checklist to prepare.
Read the London guide →The categories that make up the bulk of our purchases, in any area.
Below 80 years, mortgage lenders become cautious, and below 70 most will not lend at all, which leaves cash buyers. We buy short lease flats as they are, with no need to extend the lease first.
Short lease flats →
Selling a flat from an estate means extra steps and a longer wait for the grant of probate. We work with executors and probate solicitors and fit the sale around the estate's timing.
Probate flats →
Cladding, structural problems, defective lease clauses, a history of flooding: some flats will not get a mortgage at all. We buy with cash, so lender rules do not apply to us.
Unmortgageable flats →
Tired decor and an old kitchen put off buyers who want a home to move straight into. We price the refurbishment in from the start, rather than cutting our offer later.
Unmodernised flats →
Lenders often restrict mortgages on former council and housing association flats, by block, by postcode or by how high up the flat is. Those restrictions do not apply to a cash buyer.
Ex-local authority flats →How our direct buying service works, and how we help sellers more widely.
Our direct buying service, with honest commentary on the alternatives: an estate agency sale and auction. The page also covers what to watch out for when dealing with cash buying companies.
About our services →
The seven steps from first call to completion: how we value the flat, when the offer is confirmed in writing, what the legal work involves and the typical timescales for a cash purchase.
How the process works →