Sample questions relating to Marple Bridge Lease Extensions

  • I need to talk to you about a leasehold property in Marple Bridge, I am considering buying at auction next week. The flat only has a few years outstanding and I am curious about what it would cost to get a lease extension and for your services.
  • I am a first time buyer of a leasehold flat in Marple Bridge. The lease has only fivety seven years unexpired and ground rent is £75. Is it possible for the vendor to serve the Section 42 Notice and then assign over the right to me as the buyer on the day of completion so that I don't have to wait for the two year requisite period before I can apply to for a lease extension or have to deal with all this expense later? I have read this is achievable but will it be very time consuming to the homeowner? Unfortunately the freeholder can not be found, so I am not sure how this will play out.
  • Are you able to advise on the likely charges and the best way to start the lease extension process? I have just under seventy years outstanding and I own a three bedroom ground floor purpose built flat in Marple Bridge.
  • My wife and I have a first floor flat in Marple Bridge with seventy six years left. Last year we were quoted a deal to receive a lease extension for another fifty years but also uplift the ground rent from nominal to £250 per annum..plus a premium I think of about 10k. We have now decided to move forward but do we now have to renegotiate?
  • I intend to buy a one bed flat in Marple Bridge for asking price of 125k, which has seventy nine years lease left on it. Seller doesn't want to extend the lease for even if I were to pay the money to the seller. My query is: If landlord does not agree to a marriage value (part of lease extension fees) of a valuer, how lengthy and easy is the process of going down the route of Leasehold Valuation Tribunal?
  • If somebody owns a flat with a lease of less than 80 years, they can afford the lease extension by borrowing the funds against the property, and the value of the flat with the new lease will more than cover the cost of the extension, then is there any justification for not doing it?
  • My and my fiance are worried about obtaining a lease extension from tricky landlord. Regardless of the fact that the correct procedures were followed under the appropriate legislation, the freeholder still tried to get ground rent of £250 increasing by 100% every twenty five years of the new term. Can you assist?
  • We currently own a studio flat in Marple Bridge 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 58 years left. Not sure what to do, have read some bits on the web saying it will be 13k 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 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 Marple Bridge
  • Do you handle lease extensions on land? (a plot of land in Marple Bridge with 82yrs remaining)

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