FAQs concerning Selhurst Lease Extensions

  • 35k agreed with the landlord’s agents, just seeking to find a Selhurst for a lease extension. Our flat has just over seventy five yrsremaining. What's your legal fee ?
  • I purchased a flat in Selhurst with a leasehold unexpired nearly 78 years and need a lease extension. Please can you advise me of the next steps
  • I invested in buying a property in Selhurst and it has circa 75 years remaining. I'd like to extend the lease period
  • I want to buy a leasehold property and extend the lease. The vendor has been there over two years and will sign the notice. He will let me have the notice on exchange and then I will serve it in the landlord. Is this OK ?
  • I am the registered owner of a 2 bed flat in Selhurst. The start date for the lease was in 1997 for 99 years. Now I am looking to extend the lease. I am not entirely sure about further expenses, could you tell me please how much I should expect to spend on this?
  • I need to talk to you about a leasehold property in Selhurst, I am considering buying at auction next week. The flat has a short lease and I am curious about what it would cost to get a lease extension and for your services.
  • My mortgage provider requires a £500 fee for their to approve the lease extension deed for my flat in Selhurst... I can find no reference of this in my mortgage contract... is this a usual fee to pay?
  • My (separately handling my lease extension) said I need a licence to alter given that I wish to carry out a loft extension to my property. Is this strictly required given that I have a share of the freehold. I've informally discussed the loft conversion with my co-freeholder some time ago and he had no objection once I reassured him that if my builder damages the roof I won't expect the co-freeholder to pay for future repairs to the roof. Assuming I need formal consent should I get the licence to alter and then start the lease extension process?
  • My husband and I are buying a ground floor flat in Selhurst which has share of freehold and a leasehold. The lease was starting to get low so the owner is in the process of dealing with a lease extension. The owner has submitted the lease extension paperwork to HMLR. An essential part of the conveyancing process is for our to do a pre-completion search on the lease. The problem 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 property title number is not known. Is it correct that we must hold on pending registration of the new lease?
  • I am currently negotiating a lease extension for my flat in Selhurst 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?

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