Top Ten Questions relating to Bearsted Lease Extensions

  • I invested in buying a property in Bearsted and it has nearon 65 years outstanding. I'd like to extend the lease period
  • I am looking to extend the lease on my maisonette in Bearsted which will have 65 years left in September. What fees apply?
  • My co-lessees and I are in a building of four flats in Bearsted and have been offered to buy the freehold for £6000 per flat rather than go for lease extensions. We are all in agreement that we want to do this but how do we get started and what is the likely cost?
  • I have my suspicions that my daughter might be having the wool pulled over her eyes. She put in an offer on a one bedroom apartment in Bearsted, where the lease is nearon 60 years but she was told by the estate agents that the owner had extended it to 99 years. Only now has she been told the current owner was holding off for her to instruct lawyers before commencing with the lease extension. Seems unscrupulous, also it may take a while to sort it all out. What do you think?
  • We are looking to extend our lease. We will have been in the property for 2 years as of 22nd Feb 2015. It has nearly sixety nine years remaining currently. Hoping to get a lease extension by way of an additional 90 years as quickly and stress free as possible.
  • Coming up to two years that I have owned my two bedroom ground floor purpose built flat in Bearsted. I have seventy seven years left on the lease. I am now looking either to purchase a share of freehold or a lease extension. I purchased the property for 320K, it is now roughly 425k. I understand that 90 years is the period most people extend. I spoke to my about the process, he answered most of my questions but just have one left: I realize this will cost me 10k+, it is not easy to drop the cash (even if I may have savings) to cover it. What do most people do in terms of funding the lease extension - do they add it to their existing mortgage or pay it out in cash?
  • I note that your website states the anticipated fee to extend a lease is £495. Is that the total cost including value added tax and the land registry fee? The premium has already been agreed with the freeholder for the lease extension for my ground floor flat in Bearsted
  • Hello I own the freehold reversion in a 2 bedroom flat in Bearsted. The leaseholder has a sixety five year lease and would like to purchase further 125 years. He is offering me £21,000 but I am unsure if this is too low an offer
  • I own the freehold of a couple of flats. Someone has the lease on the lower flat in Bearsted. I live in the upper flat. I was reviewing the title deeds today when I noticed that my flat has a lease on it. There is seventy two years outstanding. If I want a lease extension then would I just be paying for the charges?
  • I have a lease of seventy four years remaining on my flat in Bearsted. 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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