FAQs concerning Queensbury Lease Extensions

  • I’ve just purchased a ground floor flat located inQueensbury and I'm deliberating extending the lease as soon as I can e.g. after 24 months of ownership
  • I am the owner of a maisonnette together with the freehold reversion. The owners of the downstairs flat have asked to extend the lease what do I need to do?
  • I am looking into the costs of carrying out a lease extension for my one bedroom second floor purpose built flat in Queensbury, and would like some figures on that.
  • We are the registered owners of a leasehold with a freeholder who has failed to give us a counter-notice for a lease extension for our flat in Queensbury and looking to do a vesting order. Is this something you can help us with?
  • I'm looking for a flat to buy in Queensbury and I'm not really familiar with the leasehold arrangement. I've identified a maisonette I like with a 87 years lease. I've read that I can go for a lease extension having owned the property for a couple of years, but:- Should I anticipate any issue with the mortgage?
  • I am a FTB of a leasehold flat in Queensbury. The lease has just fivety five years residual lease term and ground rent is £95. Is it possible for the flat owner to serve the Notice of Claim and then assign over the right to me as the purchaser on the day of completion so that I don't have to wait for the two year qualifying period before I can apply to for a lease extension or have to deal with all this expense later? I have read this may be possible but will it be very time costly to the vendor? Unfortunately the landlord is absent, so I am not sure how this will play out.
  • I have my suspicions that my niece is being hoodwinked. She put in an offer on a garden flat in Queensbury, where the lease is approximately sixety four years but she was informed by the estate agents that the flat owner had extended it to 125 years. She has now been advised the homeowner was waiting for her to appoint conveyancers before commencing with the lease extension. Seems odd to me, also it may take a while to sort it all out. Am I reading too much into it?
  • Me and my wife are considering purchasing a maisonette in Queensbury which is a leasehold. I am enquiring as to the pros and cons of that - what occurs when lease ends, the cost of a lease extension, can the freeholder of the property evict me from my own flat and block me from having a lease extension?
  • Me and my sister have been in discussion with our freeholder after having a valuation on our one bedroom apartment in Queensbury. We have a seventy one year lease and we wish to increase this to 99. The Freeholder has given 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.
  • I am the registered freeholder to two flats. Someone has the lease on the lower flat in Queensbury. I occupy in the upper flat. I was reviewing the land registry documents last night when I noticed that my flat has a lease on it. There is seventy nine years remaining. If I want to do a lease extension then would I simply be paying for the fees?

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