Solar panels when buying a UK home: questions about title, leases, and handover

Roof-mounted solar may be owned outright or subject to a lease or licence with a third party. Your conveyancer checks title entries and draft transfer clauses.

Practical buyer list

Who receives export payments? Who maintains and insures? What happens at re-roofing? Is there a buyout price?

Store the pack

After completion, keep the lease, MCS paperwork, and inverter manuals as Documents in your Property Passport.

General information only, not legal advice.

Property Passport UK

Use Property Passport UK to organise Documents, Media, Tasks, Events, and Flags for a Property, and to share a Public Passport when you want buyers or permitted Stakeholders to see selected facts without exposing private Documents.