Top Ten Questions relating to Eastbourne Lease Extensions

  • I am the registered owner of a flat in Eastbourne with a leasehold unexpired nearly sixety one years and need a lease extension. Please can you clarify the next stages
  • Hi, I just randomly found your website. I'm looking for prices on what it cost to extend a lease of a garden flat located in Eastbourne. It's on sale at the moment but has nearon fivety seven years remaining on the lease
  • Hi. I need someone to have a look at my lease extension ahead of it being completed just to ensure there's nothing that I haven't seen - it's just a surrender and regrant with a few small variations.
  • 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 have contacted my freeholder for a lease extension for my flat in Eastbourne. Her conveyancers has been in contact regarding fees etc. I need a quote for dealing with the legalities to secure a lease extension. The apartment currently has a 99 YR lease which started March 1986.
  • I plan on buying a flat based in Eastbourne. My offer is conditional upon a lease extension. The vendor’s conveyancers has served the Notice of Claim. Once this notice has been accepted by the freeholder, it is possible for the lessee to assign the benefit of that notice to me, the buyer, so that the buyer “stands in the shoes” of the Lessee, so to speak. I was wondering if this could be a problem for the mortgage lender Nottingham Building Society. Moreover, which are the following lease extension steps to complete the purchase?
  • I am the owner of a purpose-built flat in a large development in Eastbourne. The leasehold interest in the apartment on a 101 year lease started on 21st October 1969 with a non-reviewable yearly rent of 20. I wish to obtain a lease extension. Is it possible for me to talk with someone to discuss my options please?
  • I am the freeholder of a Edwardian property split into two apartments. I live in the top floor flat and my neighbour in the lower flat. My neighbour has approached me for a lease extension from the current 63 years. What are my next steps?
  • My wife and I have been in discussion with our freeholder after having a valuation on our one bedroom apartment in Eastbourne. We have a fivety nine year lease and we wish to increase this to 99. The Freeholder has given us with a financial figure that he is happy with to accept for the extension of the lease, which we are happy with as well and wish to proceed. All we need now is a lawyers to handle this for us. Can you please provide me what your costs would be to act on our behalf.
  • We have a three bed flat in Eastbourne with a lease of 74 years left with a value of around £410000 we want to add 125 years to it, how much is that likely to cost?
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