Recently asked questions relating to Hurstpierpoint Lease Extensions

  • I am looking at investing in a holiday home but it has a lease that expires in 14 years. Its in Hurstpierpoint - I wanted to see if with your services this could be extended?
  • I am about to put an offer in on a garden flat in Hurstpierpoint with a lease of sixety eight years but unsure what it will cost me to renew so I can put in an offer given to future cost of a lease extension.
  • I am the registered owner of a garden flat in Hurstpierpoint. The start date for the lease was in 2001 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?
  • I'm thinking of purchasing a one bed flat (leasehold) but the freeholder has been missing for just over 15yrs. I wonder whether it will be cheaper to try to purchase the reversionary title or to extend lease and apply for right to manage?
  • I am considering whether to purchase the freehold or a lease extension of my property in Hurstpierpoint and have been in touch with the freeholder, have had quote for around £3k to extend the lease. I will be doing a get a new mortgage with Bank of Scotland to free up equity. The broker handling the remortgage suggested I get two quotes : one for the lease extension and one for the freehold acquisition .The lease started in 1979 and since then the ground rent has increased from £38.00 per year to £300 per year.
  • I am a FTB of a leasehold flat in Hurstpierpoint. The lease has only sixety three years unexpired and ground rent is £25. Is it possible for the flat owner to serve the Notice of Claim and then assign this right to me as the buyer on the day of completion so that I don't have to wait for the two year qualifying period before I can apply to for a lease extension or have to deal with all this expense later? I have read this may be possible but will it be very time consuming to the seller? Unfortunately it’s the case of an missing landlord, so I am not sure how this will play out.
  • My partner and I have a residential flat in Hurstpierpoint with sixety eight years remaining. Last year we were quoted a deal to have a lease extension for another 25 years but also increase ground rent from nominal to £300 per annum..plus a premium I think of about 9k. We have now decided to go ahead but do we now have to start the negotiations again?
  • My husband and I have a one bedroom flat based in Hurstpierpoint. There is eighty years left on the lease and we want a lease extension. What does it cost on average to get a lease extension by, say,25 years
  • My and my husband are worried about getting a lease extension from an objectionable freeholder. Regardless of the fact that the correct procedures were followed under the 1993 Act, the landlord still attempted to charge ground rent of £200 doubling every 25 years of the new term. Can you help?
  • We know that others in the same block previously had a lease extension, and the landlord was reasonable. Therefore is seems worth taking risk of avoiding a formal valuation and calculate the initial offer on on the premiums paid by others . This would save on double valuation charges. Would you recommend this course of action?
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