FAQs concerning Old St Mellons Lease Extensions

  • I’m just looking for a one bed flat to purchase in the Old St Mellons area and was after more information on how much would it cost for a lease extension? It has fivety six years residual lease term...
  • Do you only handle lease extensions in Old St Mellons? I own a flat in Abbey Wood with 90 years remaining, I am looking for a quote from a .
  • I am looking for a in Old St Mellons and they need to be on the Halifax approved conveyancers panel as we need a lease extension and refinance simultaneously. Can you recommend any please ?
  • I am going to purchase a flat based in Old St Mellons. The offer is subject to the lease extension. The owner’s 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 Barnsley Building Society. Moreover, which are the following lease extension steps to complete the purchase?
  • I note that your website states the anticipated fee to extend a lease is £495. Is that the total cost excluding value added tax and the HMLR fee? The price has already been negotiated with the freeholder for the lease extension for my garden flat in Old St Mellons
  • My partner and I are are hoping to complete on a maisonette in Old St Mellons which has share of freehold and a leasehold. The lease was on the short side so the seller is in the process of dealing with a lease extension. The seller has submitted the lease extension paperwork which will result in the registration of a new lease at the land registry. An essential part of the conveyancing process is for our to do a "priority search" on the property title. The concern here is that as a lease extension has been submitted we've been told by our it may not be possible to do this "priority search" right now as the new lease title number has not been issued. Is it right that we have to wait until the new lease is registered?
  • I am the freeholder of a property in Old St Mellons and a leaseholder would like a lease extension. Her so called valuation expert has given a figure of £8,000, but has increased this to £10,000 at the drop of a hat. My surveyor has put forward a much higher premium. She does not appear to wish to negotiate wanting to go to LVT. If a lease extension does go to tribunal, can I handle the matter myself, just armed with the valuations I have? If not, what costs would I be likely to face?
  • Are you able to provide an estimate to extend my mum’s lease on a maisonette in Old St Mellons. She already has a figure from the landlord for a lease extension but I am unclear whether it is too expensive.
  • I was hoping you might be able to tell me the process of how to apply for a lease extension for my two bedroom first floor purpose built flat in Old St Mellons
  • I have a lease of fivety eight years remaining on my flat in Old St Mellons. 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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