Questions and Answers: Cippenham Lease Extensions

  • Me and my OH have just acquired a ground floor flat located inCippenham and I'm thinking about extending the lease as soon as I can e.g. after 24 months of ownership
  • Do you only do lease extensions in Cippenham? I own a flat in Abbey Wood with 90 years remaining, I am looking for a quote from a .
  • Think I may have made an error, I am seeking a in Cippenham who has Leasehold Tribunal expertise when it comes to lease extensions. Are you able to help me with?
  • We bought a leasehold with a freeholder who has failed to respond by way of a counter-notice for a lease extension for our flat in Cippenham and are therefore considering the option of a vesting order. Is this something you can do for us?
  • I am deliberating whether to purchase the freehold or a lease extension of my property in Cippenham and have been in touch with the freeholder, have had quote for around £4k to extend the lease. I will be doing a refinance with Barclays to free up equity. The broker dealing with the remortgage suggested I get two quotes : one for the lease extension and one for the freehold purchase .The lease began in 1979 and since then the ground rent has increased from £38.00 per year to £125 per annum.
  • I am the registered freeholder to two flats. Someone has the lease on the ground flat in Cippenham. I reside in the upper flat. I was looking at the title deeds recently when I noticed that my flat has a lease on it. There is seventy two years unexpired. If I want a lease extension then would I just be paying for the charges?
  • I am worried about obtaining a lease extension from an objectionable freeholder. Regardless of the fact that the legal procedures were adhered to under the appropriate legislation, the freeholder still tried to get ground rent of £200 doubling every twenty years of the new lease. Can you help?
  • My and my partner know that others in the same building previously had a lease extension, and the freeholder seemed reasonable. Therefore is seems worth taking risk of avoiding a formal survey and calculate the initial offer on previous premiums paid . This would save on double valuation charges. Would you suggest such a course of action?
  • We currently own a studio flat in Cippenham 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 77 years left. Not sure what to do, have read some bits on the web saying it will be 20k plus to get a lease extension. Can you offer some advice on this? Do I contact the landlord first and will they be able to give me a cost?
  • I'm looking for some advice with regard to a lease extension on my maisonette in Cippenham. I'll be looking to do this sometime next year as we need to move at some point 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. Should 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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