Top Ten Questions relating to Bradford Lease Extensions

  • 35k agreed with the landlord, just seeking to find a Bradford lawyers for a lease extension. Our flat has around 79 yearsunexpired lease. How long will this take ?
  • I need to negotiate a lease extension for a flat in Bradford and want to use a local conveyancers. Are you able to help me find a conveyancers?
  • We have seen a house for sale for £195k and we are very keen on but we've just found out that it is leasehold. There are 798 years outstanding so a lease extension is not required. We didn't know what this meant but the internet suggests we wouldn't own the land or property, just the lease to live there. Is this true? We wouldn't want to pay a mortgage for twenty years without the house being ours. Any help would be much appreciated.
  • Hi. I need a conveyancers to review my lease extension before it's completed just to make sure there's nothing that I haven't seen - it's just a reissue with a few small amendments.
  • We are the registered owners of a leasehold with a freeholder who has not given us a counter-notice for a lease extension for our flat in Bradford and are therefore considering the option of a vesting order. Is this something you can help us with?
  • I am concerned that my niece might be having the wool pulled over her eyes. She submitted an offer on a studio flat in Bradford, where the lease is around 55 years but she was advised by the selling agents that the current owner had extended it to 99 years. Only now has she been told the seller was holding off for her to retain conveyancers ahead of instigating the lease extension. Sounds unscrupulous, also it will take time to sort it all out. What do you think?
  • I am the freeholder of a Victorian property split into two flats. I reside in the upper flat and my neighbour in the lower flat. My neighbour has approached me for a lease extension from the current seventy three years. What are my next steps?
  • I am the registered freeholder to two flats. Someone has the lease on the ground flat in Bradford. I live in the top flat. I was reviewing the title deeds yesterday when I noticed that my flat has a lease on it. There is sixety five years unexpired. Can one do a lease extension without retaining a conveyancers?
  • We know that others in the same block had already had a lease extension, and the freeholder seemed amenable. It therefore appears worth taking risk of avoiding a formal survey and calculate the initial offer on on the premiums paid by others . This would save on double valuation charges. Is this advisable?
  • We currently own a garden flat in Bradford and are looking to sell it this year so we can carry out some improvements on our family home. I checked the lease and it has 79 years left. Not sure what to do, have read some bits on the web saying it will be 15k plus to get a lease extension. Do you have some advice on this? Should I contact the freeholder first and will they be able to give me a cost?
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