Sample questions relating to Downe Lease Extensions

  • My name´s Edward. I’m property hunting in Downe I'm seeing a garden flat online, with just over 55 years remaining, how much does it cost on average to extend in this location by, say, thirty years?
  • I acquired a flat in Downe with a leasehold unexpired slightly less than 68 years and need a lease extension. Please can you advise me of the next steps
  • I'm deliberating over purchasing a 2 bed flat (leasehold) but the freeholder has been missing for just over 15yrs. I wonder whether it will be less expensive to try to purchase the reversionary title or to extend lease and apply for RTM?
  • Regarding a leasehold in Downe. lower maisonette. sixety one yrs left. I have an agreed lease extension to £20k for 115yrs. Landlord also requested Notice of Claim which I think should not be necessary. Advice required.
  • We are looking to extend our lease. We will have been in the apartment for two years as of 13th April 2016. It has circa seventy eight years remaining currently. Hoping to get a lease extension by another 90 years as quickly and stress free as possible.
  • I do not need a lease extension but I do need a vesting order on a property I want to buy in Downe. The house is freehold but the garden is officially leasehold, 995 year lease from 1854. Its the garden area.
  • I'm looking at purchasing an apartment in Downe at a price of £195,000 the flat has approximately fivety nine years left on the lease. I put in an offer conditional upon a lease extension... .. that was back in November, expecting I'd have completed by Christmas. They have just come back saying that they are prepared to knock £4k off if they don't have to deal with the lease extension. I'm not sure whether that's a good idea
  • I own the freehold of a couple of flats. Someone has the lease on the ground flat in Downe. I reside in the upper flat. I was reviewing the title deeds yesterday when I noticed that my flat has a lease on it. There is sixety nine years unexpired. Can one carry out a lease extension without retaining a ?
  • I'm looking for some advice with regard to a lease extension on my apartment. The intention is to do this next summer as we have to 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. Should I look to extend it now or wait until I sell my place and have it all tied in with the property sale?
  • We currently own a one bedroom apartment in Downe 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 seventy five years left. Not sure what to do, have read some bits on the web saying it will be 15k plus to get a lease extension. Do you have some advice on this? Do I contact the landlord first and will they be able to give me a cost?

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