Top Ten Questions relating to St Andrews Lease Extensions

  • My name´s Harrison. I’m flat hunting in St Andrews I'm considering offering on a maisonette online, with around sixety years remaining, how much will it likely cost to extend in this area by, say, twenty years?
  • I want to buy a leasehold property and lease extension. The flat owner has been there for three years and will assign the notice. He will let me have the notice on exchange and then I will serve it in the landlord. Is this OK ?
  • I bought a garden flat in St Andrews with a leasehold unexpired of sixety one years. I am wondering about how much it will cost me to extend my lease
  • I am about to put an offer in on a studio flat in St Andrews with a lease of sixety three years but unsure what it will cost me to renew so I can put in an offer given to future cost of a lease extension.
  • Last year I purchased a leasehold flat in St Andrews. I have built a big extension and have not informed the freeholder. What should I do?
  • I am a first time buyer of a leasehold flat in St Andrews. The lease has only 63 years left and ground rent is £50. Is it possible for the owner to serve the Notice of Claim and then assign over the right to me as the buyer once I complete the buying process so that I can avoid waiting 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 consuming to the homeowner? Unfortunately the landlord is absent, so I am not sure how does it work.
  • Regarding a leasehold in St Andrews. upper maisonette. sixety six yrs unexpired. I have negotiated a lease extension price of £20k for 135yrs. Freeholder also requested Initial Notice which I think should not be necessary. Can you assist.
  • My wife and I have a residential flat in St Andrews with 70 years to run. Last year we were quoted a deal to receive a lease extension for a further 25 years but also uplift the ground rent from notional to £300 per year..plus a premium I think of approximately 14k. We have now decided to go ahead but do we now have to renegotiate?
  • We currently own a maisonette in St Andrews and are looking to sell it this year so we can carry out some improvements on our family home. I checked the lease and it has 66 years left. Not sure what to do, have read some bits on the web saying it will be 20k plus to get a lease extension. Can you offer some advice on this? Do I contact the landlord first and will they be able to give me a cost?
  • I have 66 years remaining on my lease of a ground floor flat in St Andrews, the Landlord requires a £15k premium for a statutory lease extension of 90yrs. I am looking for advice on whether this amount is reasonable

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