FAQs concerning Harleston Lease Extensions

  • We are seeking a lease extension for our flat located in Harleston and we are confused by the letter that we received from our landlord company. How long will it take?
  • I invested in buying a flat in Harleston with a leasehold unexpired just under seventy nine years and need to extend it. Please can you advise me of the next stages
  • I am considering investing in a second home but it has a lease that expires in 14 years. Its in Harleston - I wanted to see if with your services this could be extended?
  • I am going to purchase a flat in Harleston. The offer is conditional upon a lease extension. The vendor’s conveyancing practitioners has given to the freeholder 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 Chelsea Building Society. Moreover, which are the following lease extension steps to complete the purchase?
  • I have my suspicions that my daughter is being hoodwinked. She put in an offer on a one bedroom apartment in Harleston, where the lease is slightly less 57 years but she was advised by the estate agents that the current owner had extended it to 99 years. Only now has she been told the vendor was waiting for her to retain lawyers prior to commencing with the lease extension. Sounds odd to me, also it will take a while to sort it all out. Am I reading too much into it?
  • I intend to buy a one bed flat in Harleston for asking price of 145k, which has sixety one years lease left on it. I appreciate that ideally, the seller would start the process by serving a section 42 notice to start the lease extension process but the seller is refusing to assist. My query is: If the freeholder does not agree to a marriage value (part of lease extension fees) of surveyor, how lengthy and easy is the process of going down the route of Leasehold Valuation Tribunal?
  • Coming up to two years that I have owned my one bedroom second floor purpose built maisonette in Harleston. I have 76 yrs unexpired lease on the lease. I am now wanting to purchase a share of freehold or extend my lease. I purchased the property for 342K, it is now roughly 450k. I understand that 90 years is the period most people extend. I spoke to my conveyancers about the process, he answered most of my questions but just have one left: In terms of surveyors - how do I go about finding one?
  • If a leaseholder owns a flat with a lease of less than 80 years, they can afford the lease extension by borrowing the funds against the property, and the value of the flat with the new lease will more than cover the cost of the extension, then is there any justification for not extending the lease?
  • I'm hoping for some assistance with regard to extending the lease on my apartment. I'll be looking to do this next winter as we must move then. Unfortunately the current lease is now very short and therefore I'm guessing it'll be expensive to extend. I'm also thinking that I'll probably have to go down the tribunal route. Should I look to complete the lease extension now or wait until I sell my place and have it all tied in with the property sale?
  • We currently own a garden flat in Harleston and are looking to sell it this year so we can carry out some improvements on our family home. I checked the lease and it has 63 years left. Not sure what to do, have read some bits on the web saying it will be 13k plus to get a lease extension. Can you offer some advice on this? Do I contact the freeholder first and will they be able to give me a cost?
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