Recently asked questions relating to Dunvant Lease Extensions

  • Me and my wife have just purchased a maisonette inDunvant and I'm considering a lease extension as soon as possible e.g. in 24 months of ownership
  • My name´s Alfie. I’m house hunting in Dunvant I'm seeing a one bedroom apartment online, with circa seventy years remaining, how much will it likely cost to get a lease extension by, say, fifty years?
  • I need to negotiate a lease extension for a flat in Dunvant and want to use a local solicitors. Are you able to help me find a conveyancers?
  • Do you only do lease extensions in Dunvant? I own a flat in Abbey Wood with 90 years unexpired lease, I am looking for a quote from a solicitors.
  • My neighbours and I are in a building consisting of five flats in Dunvant and have been offered to buy the freehold for £3,500 per flat rather than go for lease extensions. We are all in agreement that we want to do this but how do we get started and what is the likely cost?
  • I am a FTB of a leasehold flat in Dunvant. The lease has only sixety six years outstanding and ground rent is £95. 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 don't have to wait for the two year qualifying period before I can apply to for a lease extension or have to deal with all this expense later? I have read this may be possible but will it be very time costly to the owner? Unfortunately it’s the case of an absent freeholder, so I am not sure how does it work.
  • We have owned a leasehold flat for about eighteen years. It now has 59 years left on the lease. Following a year of protracted negotiations through my property lawyers and, mainly, surveyor I now have an offer from the landlord. I am at a decision point on whether to accept it or go to a Tribunal and would welcome advice.
  • I am the freeholder of a property in Dunvant and a leaseholder has requested a lease extension. Her valuer has suggested a figure of £8,000, but has increased this by £2,000 at the drop of a hat. My valuer has come back with £12,520. She does not appear to wish to negotiate wanting to go to a FTT. If a lease extension does go to tribunal, can I deal with this myself, just armed with the valuations I have? If not, what costs would I be likely to face?
  • I am concerned about obtaining a lease extension from an objectionable freeholder. Even though the correct procedures were adhered to under the 1993 Act, the landlord still tried to charge ground rent of £300 increasing by 100% every 25 years of the new term. Can you assist?
  • We wanted an estimate on the cost of a lease extension and a few more questions answered regarding a lease extension for my maisonette in Dunvant
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