Bedford Hill Lease Extensions: Q and A’s

  • I am considering investing in a second home but it has a lease that expires in fifteen years. Its in Bedford Hill - I wanted to see if with your services this could be extended?
  • Do you only undertake lease extensions in Bedford Hill? I own a flat in Abbey Wood with 90 years unexpired lease, I am looking for a quote from a .
  • I own a maisonnette together with the freehold reversion. My upstairs neighbours have asked to extend the lease what do I need to do?
  • I have been in touch with my freeholder for a lease extension for my flat in Bedford Hill. His has been in contact with fees etc. I need an estimate for dealing with the legalities to secure a lease extension. The flat currently has a 99 YR lease which started May 1993.
  • I intend to buy a one bed flat in Bedford Hill for asking price of 156k, which has 69 years lease left on it. Seller doesn't want to extend the lease for even if I were to pay the money to the seller. My query is: If the freeholder does not agree to a marriage value (part of lease extension fees) of a valuer, how lengthy and difficult is the process of going down the route of Leasehold Valuation Tribunal?
  • My (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?
  • We are are hoping to complete on a one bedroom first floor purpose built maisonette in Bedford Hill which has share of freehold and a leasehold. The lease was on the short side so the owner is in the process of dealing with a lease extension. The seller’s lawyer has submitted the lease extension paperwork to HMLR. An essential part of the house buying process is for our to do a pre-completion search on the lease. The concern 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 right that we must wait pending registration of the new lease?
  • My and my fiance are concerned about obtaining a lease extension from tricky landlord. Regardless of the fact that the correct procedures were adhered to under the appropriate legislation, the freeholder still tried to charge ground rent of £300 increasing by 100% every twenty years of the new lease. Can you help?
  • My and my husband know that others in the same building had already had a lease extension, and the freeholder seemed amenable. Therefore is seems worth taking risk of not having formal survey and base the initial offer on on the premiums paid by others . This would save on double valuation charges. Would you recommend this course of action?
  • I'm looking for some advice with regard to a lease extension on my garden flat in Bedford Hill. I'll be looking to do this sometime next year as we need to move at some point then. Unfortunately the current lease is now very short and therefore I'm guessing it'll be expensive to extend. I'm also thinking that I'll probably have to go down the tribunal route. Can you recommend a good who specialises in lease extensions?

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