Common questions relating to Reading Lease Extensions

  • I am interested in getting a lease extension for a flat in Reading and want to use a local . Are you able to help me find a ?
  • Hello. I need a to have a look at my lease extension ahead of it being signed just to make sure there's nothing that I haven't seen - it's just a surrender and regrant with a few minor variations.
  • We wish to extend our lease. We will have been in the apartment for two years as of 22nd March 2016. It has roughly seventy nine years remaining currently. Hoping to get a lease extension with a further 90 years as quickly and stress free as is reasonably achievable.
  • I am looking to buy a one bed flat in Reading for asking price of 125k, which has 55 years lease left on it. I appreciate that ideally, the seller would start the process by serving a section 42 notice to start the lease extension process but the seller is refusing to assist. My query is: If landlord does not agree to a marriage value (part of lease extension fees) of surveyor, how lengthy and difficult is the process of going down the route of Leasehold Valuation Tribunal?
  • I am looking for advice as I am interested in a property that has only a seventy six year lease and therefore requires a lease extension. Is it possible for me to call someone to go through my options please?
  • We have owned a leasehold flat for around eighteen years. It now has 79 years left on the lease. Following a year of difficult negotiations through my and, mainly, surveyor I now have an offer from the freeholder. I now have to make a decision as to whether to accept it or go to LVT and would welcome some independent thoughts.
  • I'm living with my mum and dad but have a garden flat in Reading let out which has a 55 year lease. Mortgage broker said I can remortgage as a buy to let instead of consent to let and release 55-60k which on top of a new mortgage based on my income. Not much about in Reading for me to get my own place. If I sell I will only get 150-160 due to tenant (8 months left on AST) and lease. A lease extension will cost 19k. Not sure sure whether to hold on or sell the flat?
  • Just a quick one, how much are the legal fees for a lease extension on a residential property in Reading for a two bed flat - section 42 having been issued?
  • My wife and I are concerned about seeking a lease extension from an objectionable freeholder. Notwithstanding that the correct procedures were adhered to under the 1993 Act, the landlord still attempted to get ground rent of £200 increasing by 100% every twenty years of the new lease. Can you assist?
  • I have a lease of 68 years remaining on my flat in Reading. 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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