FAQs concerning Pontefract Lease Extensions

  • I am looking for lease extension for our ground floor flat located in Pontefract and we don't fully comprehend the letter that we received from our freehold company. What's your legal fee?
  • I agreed with the freeholder for a lease extension on our flat located in Pontefract, 15k for a further 90yrs. How long will it take ?
  • So this is the scenario: I am the registered owner of a studio flat in Pontefract that I am now unable to sell due to the lease needing a lease extension. How long will it take ?
  • I would like to have my residential flat leasehold extension premium valued. The flat is in Pontefract, and my lease will reach 59 years this Septembmer. Could you advise me about the costs and time-frame to obtain your valuation? Also, do you represent your clients at the LVT court?
  • We are proceeding with buying a three bed flat in Pontefract. I was assured that the lease had been lengthened (fivety four years left prior to extension). The sales particulars said "sold with a long lease". It transpires as we are about to exchange of contracts we find that the lease has not been extended. The owner supposedly has a quote but no finances to extend and consequently the vendor intends to exchange and use the my deposit for the lease extension. My question is as the lease hasn't been extended is there not a danger that Leeds Building Society won't lend on a lease?
  • My partner and I have been in discussion with our freeholder after having a valuation on our three bedroom second floor purpose built maisonette in Pontefract. We have a seventy eight year lease and we wish to increase this to 99. The Freeholder has supplied us with a premium amount that he 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 the lease extension.
  • It says on your website the likely 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 premium has already been agreed with the freeholder for the lease extension for my ground floor flat in Pontefract
  • I have seventy years remaining on my lease of a ground floor flat in Pontefract, the Landlord requires a £15k premium for a statutory lease extension of 90yrs. I am looking for advice on whether this amount is reasonable
  • I am currently negotiating a lease extension for my flat in Pontefract as it is coming up to the 80 year mark. As I understood it, if you extend your lease by the 90 years available, you pay a premium (£thousands) but the ground rent is reduced to a peppercorn. I am now told that I have to continue paying ground rent. I thought the major cost of a lease extension was to compensate the freeholder as they wouldn't be collecting ground rent anymore?
  • Do you handle lease extensions on land? (a plot of land in Pontefract with 82yrs remaining)

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