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Old 26-02-2008, 03:09 PM
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Thanks for that. I just re-read the Due Dilligence and apparently we are buying leasehold (I had assumed freehold), and the developer remains the freeholder. Does this make a difference?
Big time. Actually in order to transfer a new 99 years usufruct period to a new purchaser you'd have to go through the developer, and he'd charge you average of 5% for that.

However you can't 'register' usufruct, but you can obtain a "Signature Validity" court verdict on it.

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