Sample questions relating to Southwold Lease Extensions

  • We have just bought a ground floor flat located inSouthwold and I'm deliberating extending the lease as soon as practicable e.g. in two years
  • I own a leasehold flat in the Southwold area and was enquiring whether I could obtain a lease extension. What are your processes and charges. Has fivety four years balance left
  • I am a freeholder of a block of flats in Southwold, and the leaseholders are in the process of being issued lease extensions. I should hopefully get the money within a month or so. Are there any tax implications, the property is co-owned with my wife ?
  • I own 70% in a shared ownership flat with a housing association and I am considering a lease extension on a lease which is now around 56 years. I need a solicitors at my end. Can you advise please? I live near Southwold and have a mortgage with Chelsea Building Society.
  • I am the freeholder of a Victorian property split into two apartments. I live in the top floor flat and my neighbour in the lower flat. My neighbour has approached me for a lease extension from the current sixety two years. What are my next steps?
  • I'm looking at purchasing an apartment in Southwold valued at £195,000 the flat has something like 70 years remaining on the lease. My offer was subject to the lease being extended... .. that was back in September, hoping I'd have completed before now. The seller has just come back saying they'll knock £4k off if I deal with the lease extension myself. I'm unsure if I should take them up on the offer
  • I am the registered freeholder to two flats. Someone has the lease on the lower flat in Southwold. I occupy in the upper flat. I was reviewing the title deeds last night when I noticed that my flat has a lease on it. There is 55 years left. If I want to do a lease extension then would I just be paying for the lawyers costs?
  • I own the freehold reversion of a property in Southwold where the leaseholder would like a lease extension. Her so called valuation expert has suggested a figure of £8,000, but has increased this to £10,000 without too much effort. My surveyor has come back with £12,520. Negotiations have broken down so it looks at though we need to go to a FTT. If a lease extension does go to a FTT, can I handle the matter myself, just equipped with the valuations I have? If not, what charges would I be likely to face?
  • We are worried about getting a lease extension from a difficult landlord. Regardless of the fact that the correct procedures were adhered to under the appropriate legislation, the freeholder still tried to charge ground rent of £200 increasing by 100% every twenty years of the new lease. Can you help?
  • My and my fiance know that others in the same block had already had a lease extension, and the freeholder was amenable. Therefore is seems worth taking risk of avoiding a formal survey and calculate the initial offer on on the prices by others . This would save on double valuation fees. Is this advisable?
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