diff --git a/src/plugins/qmldesigner/components/componentcore/designeractionmanager.cpp b/src/plugins/qmldesigner/components/componentcore/designeractionmanager.cpp
index b75e4b60544..be6d9b6f93a 100644
--- a/src/plugins/qmldesigner/components/componentcore/designeractionmanager.cpp
+++ b/src/plugins/qmldesigner/components/componentcore/designeractionmanager.cpp
@@ -598,6 +598,9 @@ bool lowerAvailable(const SelectionContext &selectionState)
     if (modelNode.isRootNode())
         return false;
 
+    if (!modelNode.hasParentProperty())
+        return false;
+
     if (!modelNode.parentProperty().isNodeListProperty())
         return false;