Top Ten Questions relating to Bicester Lease Extensions

  • Me and my wife are seeking a lease extension for our leasehold house located in Bicester and we are confused by the communication that we got from our landlord company. Are you able to help us with this situation?
  • I am looking at investing in a second home but it has a lease that expires in eighteen years. Its in Bicester - I wanted to see if with your services it is possible for this to be extended?
  • We are the registered owners of a leasehold with a landlord who has failed to respond by way of a counter-notice for a lease extension for our flat in Bicester and looking to do a vesting order. Is this something you can help us with?
  • How much will I need to spend and what is the best way to start the lease extension process? I have around 57 years left on my lease on a studio flat in Bicester. I have contacted the managing agents who act on behalf of the freeholder and they sent me the number for the valuer. I telephone the surveyor but I am not receiving any calls back.
  • My mortgage provider is requesting several hundred pounds for their to approve the lease extension deed for my flat in Bicester... I am unable to find any mention of this in my mortgage contract... is this a standard charge?
  • We have a GFF based in Bicester. There is eighty years unexpired on the lease and we want a lease extension. How much does it cost on average to extend in this location by, say,twenty years
  • I own 60% in a shared ownership flat with a housing association and I am considering a lease extension on a lease which is now around 76 years. I need a at my end. Can you advise please? I live near Bicester and have a mortgage with Clydesdale.
  • I'm living at mother and father but have a garden flat in Bicester let out which has a 66 year lease. Mortgage broker said I can remortgage as a buy to let instead of consent to let and release 55-60k which on top of a new mortgage based on my income. Not much about in Bicester for me to get my own place. If I sell I will only get 150-160 due to tenant (8 months left on AST) and lease. A lease extension will cost 21k. Not sure sure whether to hold on or sell the flat?
  • Even though I may not need a lease extension but I do need a vesting order on a property I want to acquire in Bicester. The house is freehold but the garden is officially leasehold, Nine hundred and ninety nine year lease from 1895. Its the rear garden.
  • I am the freeholder of a property in Bicester and a leaseholder would like a lease extension. Her valuer has given a figure of £8,000, but has increased this to £10,000 at the drop of a hat. My surveyor has recommended a much higher figure. She does not appear to wish to negotiate wanting to go to LVT. If a lease extension does go to tribunal, can I deal with this myself, just equipped with the valuations I have? If not, what costs would I be likely to incur?

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