Recently asked questions relating to Hastings Lease Extensions

  • I am considering investing in a second home but it has a lease that expires in fifteen years. Its in Hastings - I wanted to see if with your services this could be extended?
  • I have been in touch with my freeholder to extend my lease for my flat in Hastings. His solicitors has been in contact concerning fees etc. I need an estimate for dealing with the legalities to secure a lease extension. The apartment currently has a 99 YR lease which started February 1990.
  • I bought a studio flat in Hastings. The lease started in 1998 for 99 years. Now I am wanting to extend the lease. I am uncertain about additional expenses, could you tell me please how much I should expect to spend on this?
  • Think I may have made a mistake, I am seeking a property lawyers in Hastings who has Leasehold Tribunal expertise in relation to lease extensions. Is this something you can help me with?
  • We are the registered owners of a leasehold with a freeholder who has failed to give us a counter-notice for a lease extension for our flat in Hastings and are therefore deliberating the option of a vesting order. Is this something you can do for us?
  • I am considering buying an auction property and came upon a studio flat in Hastings. It has just 49 year lease..the current owner being mortgagees in possession will not want the aggravation of applying for a lease extension..what are the drawbacks of this except for the expensive fee to extend the lease and reduced chance of obtaining a mortgage with The Mortgage Works?
  • I am the freeholder of a Victorian property split into two apartments. I reside in the upper flat and my neighbour in the lower flat. My neighbour has approached me for a lease extension from the current 67 years. What are my next steps?
  • Are you able to provide an estimate to extend my mum’s lease on a one bedroom ground floor purpose built maisonette in Hastings. She recently got a price from the landlord for a lease extension but I am far from certain if it is too high.
  • I am currently negotiating a lease extension for my flat in Hastings 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?
  • Do you handle lease extensions on land? (a plot of land in Hastings with 82yrs remaining)
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