Common questions relating to Canterbury Lease Extensions

  • I’ve just bought a one bed conversion flat located inCanterbury and I'm deliberating a lease extension as soon as possible e.g. in a couple of years
  • I am looking for a property lawyers in Canterbury and they should be on the Britannia approved conveyancers panel as we need a lease extension and refinance at the same time. Can you recommend any please ?
  • Hello. I need a conveyancers to review my lease extension ahead of it being formalised just to ensure there's nothing that I haven't seen - it's just a surrender and regrant with a few small changes.
  • I am a first time buyer of a leasehold flat in Canterbury. The lease has only 75 years left and ground rent is £75. Is it possible for the owner to serve the Section 42 Notice and then assign over the right to me as the buyer once I complete the buying process so that I can avoid waiting for the two year qualifying period before I can apply to for a lease extension or have to deal with all this expense later? I have read this is achievable but will it be very time consuming to the owner? To add to the complexity the landlord is absent, so I am not sure how this will play out.
  • Re a property in Canterbury. GFF maisonette. 73 yrs unexpired. I have negotiated a lease extension price of £14k for 125yrs. Freeholder also requested Section 42 Notice which I think is a tad over the top. Advice required.
  • My partner and I have a one bedroom flat based in Canterbury. There is eighty years to run on the lease and we want a lease extension. How much does it cost on average to get a lease extension by, say,fifty years
  • My brother and I are considering buying a three bedroom ground floor purpose built flat in Canterbury which is a leasehold. I am enquiring as to the pros and cons of that - what occurs when lease ends, the cost of a lease extension, can the freeholder of the property evict me from my own flat and block me from having a lease extension?
  • We had entered into buying a garden flat in Canterbury. I was advised by the EA that the lease extension had already been completed while on a viewing (72 years unexpired lease prior to extension). The description on the listing said "sold with a long lease". It transpires as we are about to exchange of contracts we find that there has been no lease extension. The homeowner apparently has a quote but no money to extend as a result the vendor wants to exchange and use the 10% deposit to extend the lease. My question is why has this only just been brought to my attention by my conveyancers?
  • My property lawyers (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?
  • Do you handle lease extensions on land? (a plot of land in Canterbury with 82yrs remaining)
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