Recently asked questions relating to Eastney and Southsea Lease Extensions

  • 40k agreed with the landlord’s agents, just attempting to find a Eastney and Southsea conveyancing practitioners for a lease extension. Our flat has about fivety nine yearsleft. Can you please help us with this situation ?
  • We have just bought a ground floor flat based inEastney and Southsea and I'm deliberating a lease extension as soon as I can e.g. after 24 months of ownership
  • I am looking into the costs of carrying out a lease extension for my garden flat in Eastney and Southsea, and would like some figures on that.
  • I am looking to either purchase the freehold or a lease extension of my property in Eastney and Southsea and have been in touch with the freeholder, have had quote for around £2500 to extend the lease. I will be doing a refinance with Britannia to free up equity. The adviser dealing with the remortgage suggested I get two quotes : one for the lease extension and one for the freehold acquisition .The lease started in 1979 and since then the ground rent has been raised from £15.00 per annum to £200 per annum.
  • I have my suspicions that my daughter might be having the wool pulled over her eyes. She put in an offer on a studio flat in Eastney and Southsea, where the lease is just over 65 years but she was informed by the selling agents that the current owner had extended it to 125 years. She has now been advised the seller was holding off for her to appoint lawyers prior to commencing with the lease extension. Sounds underhand, also it may take months to sort it all out. What do you think?
  • We have owned a leasehold flat for about fifteen years. It now has 60 years remaining on the lease. Following a year of protracted negotiations through my conveyancers and, mainly, surveyor I now have an offer from the freeholder. I am at a decision point on whether to accept it or go to a Tribunal and would welcome advice.
  • Me and my husband have been in discussion with our freeholder after having a valuation on our ground floor flat in Eastney and Southsea. We have a 79 year lease and we wish to increase this to 99. The Freeholder has provided us with a financial figure that she 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.
  • It says on your website the likely fee to extend a lease is £495. Is that the all inclusive cost excluding vat and the land registry fee? The premium has already been negotiated with the freeholder for the lease extension for my garden flat in Eastney and Southsea
  • My wife and I are aware that others in the same block previously had a lease extension, and the landlord seemed amenable. It therefore appears worth taking risk of avoiding a formal survey and base the initial offer on previous premiums paid . This would save on double valuation charges. Is this advisable?
  • We wanted an estimate on the cost of a lease extension and a few more questions answered regarding a lease extension for my two bedroom second floor purpose built flat in Eastney and Southsea
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