Examples of recent questions relating to Lease Extensions in Borehamwood

  • I’m just looking for a ground floor flat to purchase in the Borehamwood area and was interested in finding out what the likely fees would be to extend a lease? It has sixety three years unexpired...
  • I am in need of a rough estimate of what a lease extension will cost for a flat I would like to purchase. It has sixety years remaining.
  • Are you able to advise on how much it would charges and the best way to get a lease extension started? I have approximately 70 years remaining and I own a two bedroom second floor purpose built maisonette in Borehamwood.
  • 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?
  • If somebody owns a flat with a lease of less than 80 years, they can afford the lease extension by borrowing the funds against the property, and the value of the flat with the new lease will more than cover the cost of the extension, then is there any justification for not extending the lease?
  • I have a flat in Borehamwood with seventy eight years unexpired on the lease. I need a to help me obtain a lease extension. Can you help?
  • I am the freeholder of a property in Borehamwood and a leaseholder has requested a lease extension. Her valuer has suggested a figure of £8,000, but has increased this by £2,000 at the drop of a hat. My valuer has suggested a much higher premium. She does not appear to wish to negotiate wanting to go to LVT. If a lease extension does go to a FTT, can I deal with this myself, just equipped with the valuations I have? If not, what fee would I be likely to incur?
  • Are you able to provide an estimate to extend my mother’s lease on a one bedroom apartment in Borehamwood. She recently got a price from the freeholder for a lease extension but I am far from certain if it is too high.
  • We wanted an estimate on the cost of a lease extension and a few more questions answered regarding a lease extension for my garden flat in Borehamwood
  • I have a lease of 64 years remaining on my flat in Borehamwood. 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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