Questions and Answers: Chatteris Lease Extensions

  • I need to extend my current lease can you help me with that? My investigation with the Land Registry reveal that it has sixety six years residual lease term
  • I want to buy a leasehold property and extend the lease. The owner has been there for three years and will assign the notice. He will let me have the notice on exchange and then I will serve it in the landlord. Is this OK ?
  • We have seen a house for sale for £185,000 and we are very keen on but we've just discovered that it is leasehold. There are 899 years remaining so a lease extension is not a concern. 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 owning the property. Any help would be much appreciated.
  • Possibly made an error, I am seeking a in Chatteris who has Leasehold Tribunal expertise when it comes to lease extensions. Are you able to help me with?
  • I am looking into the costs of carrying out a lease extension for my garden flat in Chatteris, and would like some figures on that.
  • I am a FTB of a leasehold flat in Chatteris. The lease has just 69 years remaining and ground rent is £25. Is it possible for the current owner to serve the Notice of Claim and then transfer over the right to me as the purchaser on the day of completion so that I can avoid waiting for the two year requisite 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 costly to the vendor? To add to the complexity the freeholder can not be found, so I am not sure how this will play out.
  • Me and my OH are considering buying a one bedroom apartment in Chatteris which is a leasehold. I am wanting to weigh up the pros and cons of that - what happens when lease expires, 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?
  • I intend to buy a one bed flat in Chatteris for asking price of 145k, which has sixety six years lease left on it. I appreciate that ideally, the seller would start the process by serving a section 42 notice to start the lease extension process but the seller is refusing to assist. My query is: If landlord does not agree to a marriage value (part of lease extension fees) of surveyor, how lengthy and difficult is the process of going down the route of Leasehold Valuation Tribunal?
  • Are you able to provide an estimate to extend my mum’s lease on a garden flat in Chatteris. She recently got a figure from the landlord for a lease extension but I am far from certain if it is too expensive.
  • We wanted an estimate on the cost of a lease extension and a few more questions answered regarding a lease extension for my ground floor flat in Chatteris

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