Banstead Lease Extensions: Q and A’s

  • 20,000 agreed with the freeholder, just seeking to find a Banstead conveyancers for a lease extension. Our lease has around sixety eight yearsoutstanding. What's your solicitors fee ?
  • I bought a garden flat in Banstead that I am finding difficult to sell due to the lease requiring a lease extension. Can you please help me with this situation ?
  • I need to extend my current lease can you assist? My investigation with the Land Registry reveal that it has seventy one years residual lease term
  • Think I may have made an error, I am actually looking for a property lawyers in Banstead who has Leasehold Tribunal expertise in relation to lease extensions. Are you able to assist me with?
  • I am a first time buyer of a leasehold flat in Banstead. The lease has only 55 years outstanding and ground rent is £50. Is it possible for the homeowner to serve the Section 42 Notice and then assign over the right to me as the buyer on the day of completion so that I can avoid waiting for the 2 year requisite period before I can apply to for a lease extension or have to deal with all this expense later? I have read this is legal but will it be very time costly to the flat owner? To add to the complexity it’s the case of an missing landlord, so I am not sure how this will play out.
  • My conveyancing practitioners (separately handling my lease extension) said I need a licence to alter given that I wish to carry out a loft extension to my property. Is this strictly required given that I have a share of the freehold. I've informally discussed the loft conversion with my co-freeholder some time ago and he had no objection once I reassured him that if my builder damages the roof I won't expect the co-freeholder to pay for future repairs to the roof. Assuming I need formal consent should I get the licence to alter and then start the lease extension process?
  • My nephew has a share of freehold, with two other leaseholders in a building in Banstead. House divided into three flats. He has a lease, which has approximately seventy eight years outstanding. Does he have to do the lease extension at the same time with the other tenants, or could he extend the lease on his own?
  • Me and my wife have owned a leasehold flat for around twenty years. It now has 61 years outstanding on the lease. Following a year of difficult negotiations through my property lawyers and, mainly, surveyor I now have an offer from the freeholder. I am at a decision point on whether to accept it or go to LVT and would appreciate some independent thoughts.
  • I'm intent on acquiring a flat in Banstead valued at £256,000 the flat has approaching 59 years unexpired on the lease. I put in an offer subject to the lease being extended... .. that was back in November, expecting I'd have completed before now. The owner has just come back saying they are willing to knock £3k off if I deal with the lease extension myself. I'm unsure if I should take them up on the offer
  • My and my partner are worried about seeking a lease extension from a difficult freeholder. Regardless of the fact that the legal procedures were adhered to under the 1993 Act, the landlord still attempted to get ground rent of £250 increasing by 100% every twenty years of the new lease. Can you help?
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