What is the difference between Cross Lease and Fee Simple?
The formal name for a cross lease is a Composite Leasehold and Share Title. In a common example, two flats on one section, each Title comprises a leasehold of one flat and an undivided share of the freehold section that both flats occupy. A consequence of this, is a requirement to obtain your neighbours consent if you wish to alter or extend your flat, as you will be doing so on land that your neighbours own a half share in. With a fee simple or freehold property, you own all the land and buildings erected on it.
我的首选是freehold, 之后是crosslease, 绝对不碰leasehold.
还有看房子没有tick all the boxes,大概满足就好了,我有个朋友就是太挑剔,错过了买房的最好时机,现在房价都回升了。作者: 陌生的香港人 时间: 2009-8-20 14:11:01
Basically, what the people above said re written approval from your neighbours for any external additions are correct as normally there is an agreement binding what both parties can and can't do on a cross leased property. However, please note that this is only a CIVIL MATTER and Council will NOT be involved if one of the parties build anything without consent from another. Any breach of agreement can only be resolved in Court.
Having said that, if you want to build a deck or make your house larger, when calculating the development controls for any new development (max building coverage, minimum permeable/grass surface, etc), Council will look at the WHOLE site (including your and their house, not just your house) to determine whether your new addition will still comply. For example, normally the "max building coverage" of a property is 35% of the site area, so if you want to build something that makes the TOTAL (2 houses) building coverage more than 35%, you will need to get a resource consent.
However, for the Height in Relation to Boundary Control (another development control that governing the height of building/structure near boundary), it does not apply to the internal boundary between you and your cross lease neighbours.....
So, LZ may see how weird a cross lease property is.
I cant type Chinese now becos I m at work, but I m happy to elaborate a bit further in Chinese later if I need to....
Personally I will never buy leasehold properties, but if the price is cheap, can consider for a medium term investment.作者: 25hours 时间: 2009-10-3 00:09:03