Questions and Answers: Leyton Lease Extensions

  • Me and my partner are thinking about a lease extension for our apartment based in Leyton and we are confused by the letter that we got from our freehold company. What's your solicitors fee?
  • I am looking at investing in a holiday home but it has a lease that expires in fifteen years. Its in Leyton - I wanted to see if with your services this could be extended?
  • We bought a leasehold with a landlord who has failed to respond by way of a counter-notice for a lease extension for our flat in Leyton and looking to do a vesting order. Is this something you can handle for us?
  • In 2010 I purchased a leasehold flat in Leyton. I have built a big extension and have not informed my leaseholder. What are my options?
  • I am looking at buying an auction property and came upon a studio flat in Leyton. It has just 41 year lease..the seller as mortgagees in possession will not want to mess around with applying for a lease extension..what are the disadvantages of this other than the huge fee to extend the lease and decreased chance of obtaining a mortgage with The Royal Bank of Scotland?
  • My OH and I had entered into buying a one bedroom ground floor purpose built flat in Leyton. I was advised by the EA that the lease extension had already been completed while on a viewing (seventy eight years left prior to extension). The sales particulars stated "sold with a long lease". It transpires as we are about to exchange of contracts we find that there has been no lease extension. The owner supposedly has a quote but no money to extend and consequently the flat owner wants to exchange and use the my deposit for the lease extension. My question is as the lease hasn't been extended is there not a danger that it would breach my lenders lease length criteria?
  • I was hoping you might be able to tell me the process of how to apply for a lease extension for my ground floor flat in Leyton
  • We wanted an estimate on the cost of a lease extension and a few more questions answered regarding a lease extension for my garden flat in Leyton
  • Do you handle lease extensions on land? (a plot of land in Leyton with 82yrs remaining)
  • I have a lease of 69 years remaining on my flat in Leyton. 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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