Top Ten Questions relating to Harold Park Lease Extensions

  • I am interested in getting a lease extension for a flat in Harold Park and want to use a local . Is there a that you can recommend?
  • I want to acquire a leasehold property and extend the lease. The flat owner has been there for four years and will sign the notice. He will let me have the notice on exchange and then I will serve it in the landlord. Is this OK ?
  • 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 to extend my lease for my flat in Harold Park. Her has been in contact regarding charges etc. I need an estimate for dealing with the legalities to secure a lease extension. The property currently has a 99 YR lease which started November 1987.
  • I bought a studio flat in Harold Park. The start date for the lease was in 1998 for 99 years. Now I am wanting for a lease extension. I am in the dark about further expenses, could you tell me please how much I should expect to spend on this?
  • We hope to sell our one bedroom apartment in Harold Park but we may need to extend the lease, or possibly cover the costs of our buyers. Can you help me find someone to undertake the legal formalities?
  • I am looking to either purchase the freehold or a lease extension of my property in Harold Park and have been in touch with the freeholder, have had quote for around £3k to extend the lease. I plan to simultaneously remortgage with Skipton Building Society to release of equity. The adviser dealing with the remortgage suggested I get two quotes : one to extend the lease and one for outright purchase .The lease began in 1981 and since then the ground rent has increased from £25.00 per year to £125 per annum.
  • We wish to extend our lease. We will have been in the place for two years as of 22nd March 2015. It has roughly 66 years remaining currently. Hoping to get a lease extension with a further 90 years as expeditiously and stress free as possible.
  • My wife and I are worried about getting a lease extension from a difficult landlord. Even though the correct procedures were adhered to under the appropriate legislation, the landlord still tried to get ground rent of £300 doubling every 25 years of the new lease. Can you assist?
  • I am currently negotiating a lease extension for my flat in Harold Park as it is coming up to the 80 year mark. As I understood it, if you extend your lease by the 90 years available, you pay a premium (£thousands) but the ground rent is reduced to a peppercorn. I am now told that I have to continue paying ground rent. I thought the major cost of a lease extension was to compensate the freeholder as they wouldn't be collecting ground rent anymore?

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