Questions and Answers: Friday Hill Lease Extensions

  • We agreed with the freeholder to a lease extension on our flat in Friday Hill, 16.5k for an additional 90yrs. How long is the process ?
  • I’m about to offer on a maisonette to buy in the Friday Hill area and was enquiring what the likely fees would be to extend a lease? It has 78 years residual lease term...
  • I think our has advised us incorrectly concerning a lease extension and I want to find out how to complain
  • I have got a leasehold flat in the Friday Hill area and was curious whether I could get a lease extension. What are your processes and fees. There are 74 years unexpired
  • I am looking at investing in a holiday home but it has a lease that expires in eighteen years. Its in Friday Hill - I wanted to see if with your services it is possible for this to be extended?
  • 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?
  • The intention is to sell our ground floor flat in Friday Hill but we may need a lease extension, or possibly cover the expense of our buyers. Can you suggest a to undertake the legal formalities?
  • I need to talk to you about a flat in Friday Hill, I am considering bidding at auction next month. The flat only has a few years unexpired lease and I wanted to inquire about what it would cost to get a lease extension and for your services.
  • I have my suspicions that my daughter is being hoodwinked. She put in an offer on a maisonette in Friday Hill, where the lease is nearon 70 years but she was informed by the estate agents that the owner had extended it to 125 years. Only now has she been advised the homeowner was waiting for her to retain lawyers before commencing with the lease extension. Sounds devious, also it could take a while to sort it all out. What do you think?
  • We know that others in the same block previously had a lease extension, and the freeholder was reasonable. Therefore is seems worth taking risk of not having formal survey and base the initial offer on previous premiums paid . This would save on double valuation fees. Is this advisable?

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