East Sheen Lease Extensions: Q and A’s

  • I’m seeking a lease extension for our leasehold house in East Sheen and we don't fully comprehend the letter that we received from our landlord company. What's your legal fee?
  • I'm planning on buying a two bedroom first floor purpose built flat (leasehold) but the landlord has been missing for around 15yrs. I wonder whether it will be less expensive to try to acquire the freehold or to get a lease extension and apply for RTM?
  • I purchased a one bedroom apartment in East Sheen. I am looking to extend lease on the property. It is about eighty one years. I would just like to know what your charges are and how long the process takes.
  • My mortgage provider is requesting a £500 fee for their to agree a lease extension for my flat in East Sheen... I can find no reference of this in my mortgage contract... is this a normal fee to pay?
  • I am planning to get a lease extension and am wondering which step I have to do first, I have been previously told that I have to have the finances in place before I set the ball rolling, is this correct?
  • We have owned a leasehold flat for approximately twenty years. There are seventy six years unexpired lease on the lease. After a year of protracted negotiations through my 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 appreciate some independent thoughts.
  • Me and my husband are purchasing a garden flat in East Sheen which has share of freehold and a leasehold. The lease was on the short side so the vendor commenced dealing with a lease extension. The vendor has submitted the lease extension paperwork to HMLR. An essential part of the conveyancing process is for our to do OS1 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 lease title number has not been issued. Is it right that we must hold on until the new lease is registered?
  • I am the freeholder of a property in East Sheen where the leaseholder has requested a lease extension. Her so called valuation expert has suggested a figure of £8,000, but has upped this by £2,000 at the drop of a hat. My surveyor 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 equipped with the valuations I have? If not, what costs would I be likely to face?
  • I require an estimate to extend my mum’s lease on a 2 bed flat in East Sheen. She already has a figure from the freeholder for a lease extension but I am unclear whether it is too expensive.
  • I have a lease of 74 years remaining on my flat in East Sheen. 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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