Examples of recent questions relating to Lease Extensions in Cathays

  • I need to extend my existing lease can you assist? My investigation with the Land Registry reveal that it has seventy four years remaining
  • I am looking to purchase a garden flat in Cathays with a lease of 54 years but not sure how much it will cost me to renew so I can put in an offer given to future cost of a lease extension.
  • I'm deliberating over purchasing a two bedroom second floor purpose built maisonette (leasehold) but the freeholder has been missing for about 15yrs. My question is would it be less expensive to try to acquire the reversionary title or to extend lease and apply for RTM?
  • The terms for the lease on my flat in Cathays are 99 years from 14 Dec 1990. Can you give me a quote for a lease extension if I give you more information please?
  • I am a FTB of a leasehold flat in Cathays. The lease has only seventy five years unexpired and ground rent is £75. Is it possible for the vendor to serve the Section 42 Notice and then transfer over the right to me as the buyer once I complete the buying process so that I don't have to wait 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 may be possible but will it be very time consuming to the vendor? Unfortunately it’s the case of an missing freeholder, so I am not sure how this will play out.
  • Offer accepted on a a ground floor flat in Cathays, were told numerous times by the EA that the lease was in excess of 100 years, we have just had our mortgage offer come through which states the lease as 82 years.Contracts were due to be exchanged in a couple of days. My query is Should I tell the seller that I will only proceed with the purchase (at the same price) on the condition they carry out a lease extension?
  • I am planning to get a lease extension and am wondering which step I have to do first, I have been previously told that I have to have the finances in place before I set the ball rolling, is this correct?
  • 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?
  • I am the registered freeholder of a couple of flats. Someone has the lease on the ground flat in Cathays. I reside in the upper flat. I was looking at the title deeds recently when I noticed that my flat is leasehold. There is 75 years left. Is it possible to do a lease extension without retaining a ?
  • I'm hoping for some assistance with regard to extending the lease on my apartment. I'll be looking to do this sometime next year as we must 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. Do I look to extend it now or wait until I sell my place and have it all tied in with the property sale?
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