Examples of recent questions relating to Lease Extensions in St Johns

  • I have shares in the freehold of 2 blocks of flats comprising of 8 flats each. Two of the leasehold owners want a lease extension and I'm curious about the procedure for this
  • My wife has a flat based in St Johns which we are about to put on the market. The leasehold has about fivety four years outstanding on it and we are concerned this will come up for anyone who may be interested. I am after more information on how we commence arranging a lease extension? Thank you.
  • I want to purchase a leasehold property and extend the lease. The homeowner has been there for four 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 would like to have my residential flat leasehold extension premium valued. The flat is in St Johns, and my lease will reach sixety five years this January. Could you advise me about the costs and time-frame to obtain your valuation? Also, do you represent your clients at the Tribunal court?
  • I'm planning on buying a maisonette (leasehold) but the landlord has been missing for nearly 15yrs. I wonder whether it will be cheaper to try to buy the freehold or to get a lease extension and apply for RTM?
  • I am concerned that my daughter is being hoodwinked. She submitted an offer on a ground floor flat in St Johns, where the lease is slightly less seventy four years but she was advised by the estate agents that the flat owner had extended it to 125 years. She has now been advised the owner was waiting for her to retain solicitors ahead of instigating the lease extension. Sounds underhand, also it will take a while to sort it all out. Am I reading too much into it?
  • I'm living at mum and dad but have a ground floor flat in St Johns let out which has a seventy four 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 St Johns 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?
  • Me and my fiance are acquiring a one bedroom apartment in St Johns which has share of freehold and a leasehold. The lease was starting to get low so the owner commenced dealing with a lease extension. The owner has submitted the lease extension paperwork to HMLR. A crucial aspect of the conveyancing process is for our to do a "priority search" on the lease. The concern 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 has not been issued. Is it right that we have to hold on pending registration of the new lease?
  • I was hoping you might be able to tell me the process of how to apply for a lease extension for my one bedroom apartment in St Johns
  • I have a lease of 56 years remaining on my flat in St Johns. 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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