Leasehold risk checklist
Building Safety Mentions Review
Building safety references can materially change finance, insurance, and resale risk. Treat every mention as a verification trigger.
Built for England & Wales leasehold transactions.
Checklist
- Locate EWS1, remediation, waking watch, and fire risk references.
- Check if remediation status is complete, ongoing, planned, or uncertain.
- Identify any temporary safety measures and their cost impact.
- Confirm whether remediation funding route is stated.
- Ask whether there are lender-specific constraints on the building.
Warning signals
- Repeated references to remediation with no timeline.
- Costs or liabilities described as 'to be confirmed'.
- Temporary measures in place without end date.
- Insurance or mortgageability concerns linked to cladding/fire safety.
Questions to ask
- What is the verified remediation status as of today?
- Which costs, if any, may fall to leaseholders?
- Are there open notices or enforcement actions linked to fire safety?
- Can you share latest fire risk and remediation correspondence?
Apply this to your actual pack
This page is generic guidance. Use the app to review your own pack and get findings with document references and downloadable files.