Sample questions relating to Dewsbury Lease Extensions

  • I’ve just bought a one bedroom first floor purpose built maisonette inDewsbury and I'm considering extending the lease as soon as practicable e.g. in a couple of years
  • My wife has a flat located in Dewsbury which we are about to put on the market. The leasehold has about sixety two years residual lease term on it and we are concerned this will come up for anyone who may be interested. Can you please assist on how we get started on a lease extension? Thank you.
  • I need to negotiate a lease extension for a flat in Dewsbury and want to use a local lawyers. Is there a lawyers that you can recommend?
  • This flat I have in mind requires only ground rent. Long lease so no lease extension required. I have asked the estate agents as to what happens to building insurance and responsibility for communal areas and if one of the two flats which make up the property wants to make alterations.They said they did not know. I cannot see how one could get buildings insurance for the whole building shared with another flat, either downstairs or upstairs. I do need to clarify things like this before I undertake all the expenses involved in purchasing a property I feel. Do freeholders actually supply their own insurance?
  • I own a maisonnette and the freehold. The owners of the downstairs flat have asked for a lease extension what do I need to do?
  • I am looking to either purchase the freehold or a lease extension of my property in Dewsbury and have been in touch with the freeholder, have had quote for around £4k to extend the lease. I plan to simultaneously get a new mortgage with HSBC Bank to free up equity. My adviser dealing with the remortgage suggested I get two quotes : one for the lease extension and one for the freehold acquisition .The lease commenced in 1972 and since then the ground rent has been raised from £15.00 per year to £300 per annum.
  • I am a FTB of a leasehold flat in Dewsbury. The lease has just 65 years balance left and ground rent is £75. Is it possible for the seller 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 don't have to wait 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 legal but will it be very time consuming to the owner? To add to the complexity the freeholder can not be found, so I am not sure how this will play out.
  • I own 50% in a shared ownership property with a housing association and I am considering a lease extension on a lease which is now around 60 years. I need a conveyancing practitioners at my end. Can you advise please? I live near Dewsbury and have a mortgage with HSBC Bank.
  • We currently own a three bed flat in Dewsbury 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 58 years left. Not sure what to do, have read some bits on the web saying it will be 13k plus to get a lease extension. Can you offer some advice on this? Do I contact the freeholder first and will they be able to give me a cost?
  • We have a studio flat in Dewsbury with a lease of 54 years left with a value of around £290000 we want to add 125 years to it, how much is that likely to cost?
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