Top Ten Questions relating to Melton Constable Lease Extensions

  • I have been in touch with my freeholder for a lease extension for my flat in Melton Constable. His conveyancers has been in contact with charges etc. I need a ball park figure for dealing with the legalities to secure a lease extension. The apartment currently has a 99 YR lease which started April 1990.
  • I am going to purchase a flat located in Melton Constable. My offer is conditional upon a lease extension. The current owner’s conveyancing practitioners has given to the freeholder the Notice of Claim. Once this notice has been accepted by the freeholder, it is possible for the lessee to assign the benefit of that notice to me, the buyer, so that the buyer “stands in the shoes” of the Lessee, so to speak. I was wondering if this could be a problem for the mortgage lender Coventry Building Society. Moreover, which are the following lease extension steps to complete the purchase?
  • I am looking to either purchase the freehold or a lease extension of my property in Melton Constable and have been in touch with the freeholder, have had quote for around £4k to extend the lease. I will be doing a refinance with Alliance & Leicester to release of equity. The adviser dealing with the remortgage suggested I get two estimates : one to extend the lease and one for outright purchase .The lease commenced in 1991 and since then the ground rent has increased from £15.00 per year to £300 per year.
  • My property lawyers (separately handling my lease extension) said I need a licence to alter given that I wish to carry out a loft extension to my property. Is this strictly required given that I have a share of the freehold. I've informally discussed the loft conversion with my co-freeholder some time ago and he had no objection once I reassured him that if my builder damages the roof I won't expect the co-freeholder to pay for future repairs to the roof. Assuming I need formal consent should I get the licence to alter and then start the lease extension process?
  • I am looking to extend the lease on my studio flat in Melton Constable I am looking for help to verify the premium. I have a price from the landlord. I would like to go forward as soon as possible, but for the right premium and fee.
  • It says on your website the anticipated fee for dealing with a lease extension is £495. Is that the all inclusive cost including value added tax and the land registry fee? The price has already been agreed with the freeholder for the lease extension for my three bed flat in Melton Constable
  • Are you able to provide an estimate to extend my mother’s lease on a ground floor flat in Melton Constable. She recently got a figure from the freeholder for a lease extension but I am unclear whether it is too expensive.
  • 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 Melton Constable
  • Do you handle lease extensions on land? (a plot of land in Melton Constable with 82yrs remaining)
  • I have a lease of sixety five years remaining on my flat in Melton Constable. 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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