Leasehold

The lease says the ground rent doubles on a schedule and the survey never quotes it. Has the survey valued that clause?

No. The survey has not valued the clause that makes the ground rent double on a schedule. Ground rent is a lease term. The schedule sits in the lease, which the survey does not construe and does not price. The report never quotes the clause because a condition survey is not a ground-rent valuation. Silence is not a nil value, and it is not an agreement that the doubling does not matter. The survey has described the flat it could see. It has left the rent clause to the lease and to the solicitor.

Last reviewed 24 October 2026. Written for buyers in England and Wales unless this answer says otherwise. No named surveyor has signed this page. It is general guidance, not a report on your house, and not legal advice.

What is the fuller explanation?

A doubling schedule is a mechanical term: on stated dates the rent in the lease becomes twice the previous figure, or whatever the clause actually says. The surveyor does not calculate that series, does not advise whether a lender will accept it, and does not turn it into a price for the flat. Quoting it would pretend the inspection had become a review of the lease. The pack already contains the lease. The person who reads that schedule for you is the solicitor.

Ask the solicitor to set out the current ground rent, the doubling dates, and what the clause says happens at each step, without treating the survey as having done that work. Do not invent a value for the clause from the survey's silence. The report has not said the rent is acceptable, and it has not said it is a reason to walk away. Those are decisions for you with the lease in front of you, not sentences missing from a damp and roof inspection.

What should you ask your surveyor?

Did the survey quote or value any ground-rent clause, or is that outside it?
Which physical defects are in the report that the rent clause does not describe?
Should the solicitor, rather than the survey, read the doubling schedule?

What are the typical next steps?

Treat the doubling schedule as a lease clause the survey has not valued.
Ask the solicitor to set out the rent and the dates in the schedule.
Do not read silence in the report as a nil value or as a clearance.

Costs vary with the building and with who you instruct. Where this page does not cite a published figure, ask the surveyor, a relevant specialist, or your solicitor for a written quote. Do not treat a forum average as the price.

Also asked about this

If the report never mentions ground rent, has the clause been priced?

No. Never mentioning it means the survey did not price it. The clause still sits in the lease, doubling on its own schedule. The solicitor should read that schedule. Absence from the condition report is not a valuation of nil and not a decision that the clause is harmless.

Can you ignore the schedule because the survey of the rooms was thorough?

No. A thorough look at rooms does not read a rent clause. The survey never quotes the doubling schedule because that is not its job, not because the schedule is unimportant. Ask the solicitor to explain the clause. The condition of the flat and the ground rent remain separate.