Mortgage lender raises the roof over leasehold solar panels
by Anna Tims from Environment | The Guardian on (#3EQ57)
Our buyer's preferred lender won't consider them for a mortgage
We bought a house in 2010 and had solar panels installed on a leasehold basis. We want to sell, but the buyer's preferred lender won't lend on properties with leasehold panels.
We have tried to buy out the panels, as per a clause in the lease. It states that we have to compensate the company for the loss of their "feed-in tariff" - we know this will be around 20,000.
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