Questions and Answers: Leytonstone Lease Extensions

  • I agreed with the landlord to a lease extension on our flat located in Leytonstone, 12k for another 90yrs. What's your legal fee ?
  • My name´s Reuben. I’m flat hunting in Leytonstone I'm deliberating offering on a one bedroom apartment online, with around 67 years remaining, how much does it cost on average to get a lease extension by, say, thirty years?
  • I’m about to offer on a one bed flat to buy in the Leytonstone area and was enquiring how much would it cost to extend a lease? It has seventy seven years unexpired...
  • Hi. I need a to have a look at my lease extension prior to it being signed just to ensure there's nothing that I haven't seen - it's just a surrender and regrant with a few minor amendments.
  • I am a landlord of a block of flats in Leytonstone, and the tenants are in the process of being given lease extensions. I anticipate receiving the money next month. How does the tax work, the property is in joint names with my husband ?
  • We have been in discussion with our freeholder after having a valuation on our maisonette in Leytonstone. We have a sixety nine year lease and we wish to increase this to 99. The Freeholder has supplied us with a financial figure that she is happy with to accept for the extension of the lease, which we are happy with as well and wish to proceed. All we need now is a to handle this for us. Can you please provide me what your costs would be to act on our behalf.
  • I'm looking at acquiring an apartment in Leytonstone valued at £256,000 the flat has just under 79 years remaining on the lease. I put in an offer subject to a lease extension... .. that was back in November, expecting I'd have completed before now. The owner has just come back saying they'll knock £3k off if they don't have to deal with the lease extension. I'm not sure if I should take them up on the offer
  • We are worried about getting a lease extension from a difficult freeholder. Even though the correct procedures were adhered to under the appropriate legislation, the freeholder still attempted to get ground rent of £200 doubling every twenty years of the new lease. Can you help?
  • We currently own a one bedroom ground floor purpose built flat in Leytonstone and are looking to sell it this year so we can carry out some improvements on our family home. I checked the lease and it has seventy two years left. Not sure what to do, have read some bits on the web saying it will be 20k plus to get a lease extension. Do you have some advice on this? Should I contact the landlord first and will they be able to give me a cost?
  • I have a lease of 67 years remaining on my flat in Leytonstone. 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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