Questions and Answers: Belmont Lease Extensions

  • I am interested in getting a lease extension for a flat in Belmont and want to use a local lawyers. Are you able to help me find a property lawyers?
  • I plan on buying a flat located in Belmont. The offer is subject to the lease extension. The seller’s conveyancers has served the Notice of Claim. Once this notice has been accepted by the freeholder, it is possible for the lessee to assign the benefit of that notice to me, the buyer, so that the buyer “stands in the shoes” of the Lessee, so to speak. I was wondering if this could be a problem for the mortgage lender Skipton Building Society. Moreover, which are the following lease extension steps to complete the purchase?
  • I intend to buy a one bed flat in Belmont for asking price of 145k, which has 75 years lease left on it. I appreciate that ideally, the seller would start the process by serving a section 42 notice to start the lease extension process but the seller is refusing to assist. My query is: If landlord does not agree to a marriage value (part of lease extension fees) of surveyor, how lengthy and difficult is the process of going down the route of Leasehold Valuation Tribunal?
  • I own 70% in a shared ownership flat with a housing association and I am considering a lease extension on a lease which is now around fivety five years. I need a conveyancing practitioners at my end. Can you advise please? I live near Belmont and have a mortgage with Aldermore.
  • My wife and I would like to know the cost of a lease extension valuation for a property based in Belmont. Is this something you can help us with?
  • I do not need a lease extension but I do require a vesting order on a property I want to acquire in Belmont. The house is freehold but the garden is officially leasehold, 995 year lease from 1895. Its the rear garden.
  • I have a freehold of a three bedroom flat in Belmont. The leaseholders have fivety six years on a lease and wants to purchase another 90 years. The have offered me 19k. Is this around the right price?
  • My wife and I are concerned about obtaining a lease extension from an objectionable landlord. Notwithstanding that the correct procedures were adhered to under the 1993 Act, the freeholder still tried to get ground rent of £200 doubling every twenty five years of the new term. Can you assist?
  • My wife and I are aware that others in the same block previously had a lease extension, and the landlord was reasonable. It therefore appears worth taking risk of not having formal survey and base the initial offer on previous premiums paid . This would save on double valuation charges. Would you suggest this course of action?
  • I have a lease of 76 years remaining on my flat in Belmont. 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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