Questions and Answers: Lindfield Lease Extensions

  • Hello, I am looking somewhere around or in Lindfield 8-10 years lease remaining houses. I dont know if I am on the right site. Can I find lease remaining houses from here?
  • I'm intending to make an offer on a house in Lindfield but I'm concerned about it being leasehold. Do you know what title absolute means and is this regarding the lease? Also, we have asked to see a copy of the lease but the homeowner said they might not have it. We are worried about restrictions, and dont know what to do. We have also been approved for the mortgage but the lender doesn't know its leasehold. Do houses qualify for lease extension? Will this affect Chelsea Building Society giving us the mortgage now?
  • I am looking for a rough estimate of what a lease extension will cost for a flat I would like to buy. It has sixety nine years residual lease term.
  • I bought a garden flat in Lindfield with a leasehold unexpired of seventy nine years. I am wondering about what it will cost me to extend my lease term
  • 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?
  • We inherited a leasehold with a freeholder who has not given us a counter-notice for a lease extension for our flat in Lindfield and are therefore considering the option of a vesting order. Is this something you can help us with?
  • My brother has a share of freehold, with two other leaseholders in a building in Lindfield. House divided into three apartments. He has a lease, which has just over seventy four yrs remaining. Does he have to do the lease extension at the same time with the other tenants, or could he extend the lease on his own?
  • Even though I may not need a lease extension but I do require a vesting order on a property I want to acquire in Lindfield. The house is freehold but the garden is officially leasehold, 995 year lease from 1889. Its the garden area.
  • Are you able to provide an estimate to extend my mum’s lease on a ground floor flat in Lindfield. She recently got a price from the landlord for a lease extension but I am not sure it is too high.
  • We currently own a garden flat in Lindfield 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 75 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? Do I contact the landlord first and will they be able to give me a cost?
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