Common questions relating to Kensington Lease Extensions

  • My name´s Jackson. I’m flat hunting in Kensington I'm considering offering on a garden flat online, with just under 79 years outstanding, how much will it likely cost to get a lease extension by, say, twenty years?
  • I’m about to offer on a a property to purchase in the Kensington area and was curious what the likely fees would be to extend a lease? It has seventy eight years residual lease term...
  • I am looking at investing in a second home but it has a lease that expires in 14 years. Its in Kensington - I wanted to see if with your services this could be extended?
  • Hi. I need someone to review my lease extension prior to it being completed just to ensure there's nothing that I haven't seen - it's just a surrender and regrant with a few small variations.
  • I'm looking for an apartment to purchase in Kensington and I'm not really familiar with the leasehold title. I've found a maisonette I like with a 82 years lease. I've read that I can get a lease extension having owned the property for 2 years, but:- Should I be looking for some caveats that would prevent me for getting a lease extension?
  • Are you able to advise on the likely expense and the optimum way to get a lease extension started? I have around fivety five years remaining and I own a garden flat in Kensington.
  • I have my suspicions that my daughter might be having the wool pulled over her eyes. She put in an offer on a one bedroom apartment in Kensington, where the lease is nearly 76 years but she was informed by the estate agents that the flat owner had extended it to 125 years. She has now been informed the seller was waiting for her to instruct solicitors prior to commencing with the lease extension. Seems unscrupulous, also it could take months to sort it all out. What do you think?
  • My mortgage lender requires a £600 fee for their to approve the lease extension deed for my flat in Kensington... I can find no mention of this in my mortgage guide... is this a usual cost that they charge?
  • Do you handle lease extensions on land? (a plot of land in Kensington with 82yrs remaining)
  • I have a lease of fivety five years remaining on my flat in Kensington. 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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