Examples of recent questions relating to Lease Extensions in Buckingham

  • I am the registered owner of a garden flat in Buckingham that I am now unable to sell as a result of the lease requiring a lease extension. What's your solicitors fee ?
  • Do you only handle lease extensions in Buckingham? I own a flat in Abbey Wood with 90 years left, I am looking for a quote from a .
  • I have my suspicions that my niece is being hoodwinked. She submitted an offer on a one bed flat in Buckingham, where the lease is roughly 73 years but she was informed by the selling agents that the owner had extended it to 125 years. Only now has she been told the seller was holding off for her to retain conveyancers before commencing with the lease extension. Seems underhand, also it will take time to sort it all out. What do you think?
  • I am looking at purchasing an auction property and found a studio flat in Buckingham. It only has a 41 year lease..the seller being mortgagees in possession dont want the aggravation of negotiating a lease extension..what are the disadvantages of this except for the expensive fee to extend the lease and decreased chance of obtaining a mortgage with Accord Mortgages Ltd?
  • My flat in Buckingham is up for sale and I have a hopefully firm offer. There is eighty one years remaining on the lease and I want to extend the lease. How much will it likely cost to get a lease extension by, say,35 years
  • I am interested in getting my lease extended and was advised previously that I must get the funds readily available, is this the case or can I start the process beforehand?
  • 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 a leaseholder 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 doing it?
  • We have a garden flat in Buckingham with a lease of 78 years left with a value of around £370000 we want to add 90 years to it, how much is that likely to cost?
  • I have a lease of 63 years remaining on my flat in Buckingham. 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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