Recently asked questions relating to Barons Court Lease Extensions

  • My wife has a flat located in Barons Court which we have just put on the market. The leasehold has about seventy seven years residual lease term on it and we are concerned this will come up for anyone who may be interested. Can you please assist on how we commence arranging a lease extension? Many thanks.
  • I bought a property in Barons Court and it has nearly sixety six years residual lease term. I'd like to arrange a lease extension by twenty years
  • I need to extend my current lease can you help me with that? I think it has 71 years balance left
  • I am interested in getting a lease extension for a flat in Barons Court and want to use a local . Is there a that you can recommend?
  • This flat I have in mind requires only ground rent. Long lease so no lease extension required. I have asked the estate agents as to what happens to building insurance and responsibility for communal areas and if one of the two flats which make up the property wants to make alterations.They said they did not know. I cannot see how one could get buildings insurance for the whole building shared with another flat, either downstairs or upstairs. I do need to clarify things like this before I undertake all the expenses involved in purchasing a property I feel. Do freeholders actually supply their own insurance?
  • I am about to view a one bedroom maisonette, although not exactly my ideal property it has enough positives to suit me very well for my present situation. However after downloading a copy of the title I've learnt that it only has 57 years remaining on the lease. It is also a repo so I'm assuming that the bank will not be interested in doing a lease extension. My main concern is would the short lease make it difficult to secure a mortgage?
  • We are are hoping to complete on a maisonette in Barons Court which has share of freehold and a leasehold. The lease was starting to get low so the owner commenced extending the lease. The owner has submitted the lease extension paperwork which will result in the registration of a new lease at the land registry. An essential part of the conveyancing process is for our to do a "priority search" on the lease. The problem here is that as a lease extension has been submitted we've been told by our it may not be possible to do this "priority search" right now as the new property title number is not known. Is it correct that we must wait pending registration of the new lease?
  • We know that others in the same building had already had a lease extension, and the freeholder was reasonable. It therefore appears worth taking risk of avoiding a formal valuation and calculate the initial offer on previous prices . This would save on double valuation fees. Would you suggest this course of action?
  • I am currently negotiating a lease extension for my flat in Barons Court as it is coming up to the 80 year mark. As I understood it, if you extend your lease by the 90 years available, you pay a premium (£thousands) but the ground rent is reduced to a peppercorn. I am now told that I have to continue paying ground rent. I thought the major cost of a lease extension was to compensate the freeholder as they wouldn't be collecting ground rent anymore?
  • I have a lease of 72 years remaining on my flat in Barons Court. We are looking for a lease extension, so we contacted our freehold company and they came back with a quote that was double the amount and half the extension time that the lease extension calculator provided. Is there anyway, without racking up a huge legal bill, we can ask the freehold company to provide their computation of the amount and how they derived to it?

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