FAQs concerning Royal Tunbridge Wells Lease Extensions

  • I purchased a garden flat based in Royal Tunbridge Wells with a leasehold unexpired of 70 years. I am curious about how much it will cost me to extend my leasehold
  • The terms for the lease on my apartment in Royal Tunbridge Wells are 99 years from 12 Feb 1980. Please give me a quote to extend the lease if I give you more details please?
  • Is it possible to talk with you about a leasehold property in Royal Tunbridge Wells, I am considering buying at auction next month. The flat only has a few years outstanding and I was wondering about how much it would cost to get a lease extension and for your services.
  • I am considering whether to purchase the freehold or a lease extension of my property in Royal Tunbridge Wells and have been in touch with the freeholder, have had quote for around £3k to extend the lease. I will be doing a refinance with Alliance & Leicester to free up equity. My adviser dealing with the remortgage suggested I get two estimates : one to extend the lease and one for the freehold purchase .The lease commenced in 1979 and since then the ground rent has increased from £15.00 per year to £125 per year.
  • I am a first time buyer of a leasehold flat in Royal Tunbridge Wells. The lease has only seventy eight years outstanding and ground rent is £50. Is it possible for the vendor to serve the Initial Notice and then transfer this right to me as the buyer once I complete the buying process so that I don't have to wait for the two year requisite period before I can apply to for a lease extension or have to deal with all this expense later? I have read this is legal but will it be very time costly to the seller? To add to the complexity the freeholder is absent, so I am not sure how does it work.
  • I am concerned that my daughter is being hoodwinked. She submitted an offer on a two bedroom second floor purpose built flat in Royal Tunbridge Wells, where the lease is roughly fivety nine years but she was informed by the estate agents that the current owner had extended it to 125 years. She has now been advised the flat owner was waiting for her to appoint solicitors prior to commencing with the lease extension. Sounds unscrupulous, also it will take months to sort it all out. What do you think?
  • Regarding a leasehold in Royal Tunbridge Wells. GFF maisonette. sixety yrs unexpired. I have negotiated a lease extension price of £14k for 135yrs. Freeholder also insisted on Initial Notice which I think is a bit over the top. Can you assist.
  • We wish to extend our lease. We will have been in the place for 2 years as of 22nd Feb 2016. It has around sixety nine years remaining currently. Hoping to get a lease extension by way of an additional 90 years as quickly and stress free as is reasonably achievable.
  • I'm living at parents but have a garden flat in Royal Tunbridge Wells let out which has a 76 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 Royal Tunbridge Wells 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 21k. Should I keep or sell the flat?
  • Are you able to provide an estimate to extend my mother’s lease on a studio flat in Royal Tunbridge Wells. She recently got a price from the landlord for a lease extension but I am unclear whether it is reasonable.

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