Recently asked questions relating to Darton Lease Extensions

  • Me and my fiance have just purchased a studio flat located inDarton and I'm thinking about a lease extension as soon as practicable e.g. in two years
  • I am looking for a in Darton and they should be on the Nottingham Building Society approved conveyancers panel as we need a lease extension and refinance at the same time. Can you recommend a ?
  • My mortgage lender is requesting a £450 fee for their for a "deed of substituted security" for the lease extension for my flat in Darton... I am unable to find any reference of this in my mortgage contract... is this a usual charge?
  • We would like to extend our lease. We will have been in the flat for two years as of 1st March 2016. It has around 62 years remaining currently. Hoping to get a lease extension by another 90 years as expeditiously and stress free as is reasonably achievable.
  • Me and my OH had entered into a purchase of a 2 bed flat in Darton. I was advised by the EA that the lease extension had already been completed while on a viewing (64 years left prior to extension). The description on the listing stated "sold with a long lease". It turns out as we are about to exchange of contracts we find that the lease has not been extended. The seller apparently has a quote but no funds to extend and consequently the current owner intends to exchange and use the deposit monies for the lease extension. My question is why has this only just been brought to my attention by my ?
  • I am planning to get a lease extension and am wondering what step I have to do first, I have been previously told that I have to have the finances in place before I commence the process, is this correct?
  • Coming up to two years that I have been in my three bed flat in Darton. I have 78 yrs unexpired lease on the lease. I am now wanting to purchase a share of freehold or extend my lease. I purchased the property for 350K, it is now roughly 445k. I understand that 90 years is the period most people extend. I spoke to my about the process, he answered most of my questions but just have one left: In terms of surveyors - how do I go about finding one?
  • I note that your website states the anticipated fee for dealing with a lease extension is £495. Is that the total cost excluding value added tax and the land registry fee? The premium has already been negotiated with the freeholder for the lease extension for my studio flat in Darton
  • Me and my OH are purchasing a one bedroom apartment in Darton which has share of freehold and a leasehold. The lease was starting to get low so the owner is in the process of extending the lease. The seller has submitted the lease extension paperwork which will result in the registration of a new lease at the land registry. An essential part of the house buying process is for our to do a pre-completion search on the property title. The problem here is that as a lease extension has been submitted we've been told by our it may not be possible to do this "priority search" right now as the new property title number is not known. Is it right that we must be patient until the lease extension has actually been registered before completing.?
  • I have a lease of sixety four years remaining on my flat in Darton. 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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