Recently asked questions relating to Brentwood Lease Extensions

  • We agreed with the head landlord for a lease extension on our flat located in Brentwood, 15.5k for an additional 90yrs. Can you please guide us with this situation ?
  • Hello, I am looking somewhere around or in Brentwood 8-10 years lease remaining houses. I dont know if I am on the correct site. Can I find lease remaining houses from here?
  • My partner has an apartment located in Brentwood which we have just put on the market. The leasehold has circa sixety seven years left on it and we are concerned this will come up for anyone who may be interested. Can you please assist on how we commence arranging a lease extension? Thank you.
  • We have seen a house for sale for £195k and we are very keen on but we've just discovered that it is leasehold. There are 798 years left so a lease extension is not a worry. 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 correct? We wouldn't want to pay a mortgage for 25 years without the house being ours. Any advice would be much appreciated.
  • Offer accepted on a a studio flat in Brentwood, were told numerous times by the EA that the lease was in excess of 100 years, we have just had our mortgage offer in writing through the post which states the lease as eighty years.Contracts were due to be exchanged within a week. My question is why has this only just come to my attention by my ?
  • Me and my sister are acquiring a 2 bed flat in Brentwood which has share of freehold and a leasehold. The lease was starting to get low so the seller commenced dealing with a lease extension. The seller has submitted the lease extension paperwork which will result in the registration of a new lease at the land registry. An essential part of the house buying process is for our to do OS1 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 has not been issued. Is it right that we have to wait pending registration of the new lease?
  • I'm looking for some help concerning extending the lease on my flat. I'll be looking to do this next autumn as we need to move 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. You are able to recommend a good with expertise in lease extensions. Preferably someone in Brentwood area?
  • My brother is concerned about seeking a lease extension from tricky freeholder. Even though the legal procedures were adhered to under the appropriate legislation, the freeholder still tried to get ground rent of £300 doubling every twenty five years of the new term. Can you help?
  • We currently own a studio flat in Brentwood 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 61 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? Do I contact the freeholder first and will they be able to give me a cost?
  • I have a lease of sixety one years remaining on my flat in Brentwood. 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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