Questions and Answers: Hillingdon Lease Extensions

  • My name´s Ethan. I’m house hunting in Hillingdon I'm thinking about offering on a two bedroom second floor purpose built flat online, with approximately sixety one years outstanding, how much does it cost on average to get a lease extension by, say, 35 years?
  • I am looking for a rough estimate of what a lease extension will cost for a flat I intend to purchase. It has sixety six years balance left.
  • 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 purchased a one bedroom apartment in Hillingdon. The lease started in 1997 for 99 years. Now I am wanting to extend the lease. I am in the dark about additional expenses, could you tell me please how much I should expect to spend on this?
  • In 2012 I purchased a leasehold flat in Hillingdon. I have built a large extension and have not informed the leaseholder. What are my options?
  • I am concerned that my niece might have had the wool pulled over her eyes. She put in an offer on a maisonette in Hillingdon, where the lease is nearon seventy seven years but she was told by the selling agents that the owner had extended it to 125 years. Only now has she been informed the vendor was holding off for her to retain lawyers prior to commencing with the lease extension. Sounds unscrupulous, also it may take months to sort it all out. What do you think?
  • Although I do not need a lease extension but I do require a vesting order on a property I want to purchase in Hillingdon. The house is freehold but the garden is officially leasehold, 995 year lease from 1895. Its the garden area.
  • We are worried about obtaining a lease extension from a difficult landlord. Even though the correct procedures were followed under the appropriate legislation, the landlord still tried to get ground rent of £250 increasing by 100% every 25 years of the new term. Can you assist?
  • I am planning on remortgaging my two bedroom first floor purpose built flat in Hillingdon and the next lender that I am looking to move to requires a minimum 85 years remaining on the lease in order for them to take the mortgage forward. I have found that I currently have around sixety seven years on the leasehold so looking for some advice, guidance, and some quotes to set the wheels in motion for a lease extension
  • I have a lease of 59 years remaining on my flat in Hillingdon. We are looking for a lease extension, so we contacted our freehold company and they came back with a quote that was double the amount and half the extension time that the lease extension calculator provided. Is there anyway, without racking up a huge legal bill, we can ask the freehold company to provide their computation of the amount and how they derived to it?

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