Recently asked questions relating to St Leonard Shoreditch Lease Extensions

  • My name´s Edward. I’m house hunting in St Leonard Shoreditch I'm deliberating offering on a ground floor flat online, with nearon 57 years outstanding, how much will it likely cost to get a lease extension by, say, ninety years?
  • Hi, I just randomly found this website. I'm seeking prices on what a lease extension will cost for a garden flat in St Leonard Shoreditch. It's up for sale at the moment but has approximately 65 years left on the lease
  • I'm planning to make an offer on a house in St Leonard Shoreditch but I'm concerned about it being leasehold. Do you know what title absolute means and is this regarding the lease? Also, we have asked to see a copy of the lease but the homeowner said they might not have it. We are worried about restrictions, and dont know what to do. We have also been approved for the mortgage but the lender doesn't know its leasehold. Do houses qualify for lease extension? Will this affect Norwich and Peterborough Building Society giving us the mortgage now?
  • We would like to extend our lease. We will have been in the flat for 2 years as of 1st Jan 2016. It has roughly 75 years remaining currently. Hoping to get a lease extension with a further 90 years as quickly and stress free as possible.
  • I intend to buy a one bed flat in St Leonard Shoreditch for asking price of 145k, which has seventy eight years lease left on it. I appreciate that ideally, the seller would start the process by serving a section 42 notice to start the lease extension process but the seller is refusing to assist. My question is: If landlord does not agree to a marriage value (part of lease extension fees) of surveyor, how lengthy and difficult is the process of going down the route of Leasehold Valuation Tribunal?
  • We have owned a leasehold flat for approximately eighteen years. There are sixety one years left on the lease. After a year of difficult negotiations through my and, mainly, surveyor I now have an offer from the freeholder. I am at a decision point on whether to accept it or go to a Tribunal and would appreciate some independent thoughts.
  • I require an estimate to extend my mum’s lease on a maisonette in St Leonard Shoreditch. She recently got a figure from the landlord for a lease extension but I am not sure it is too expensive.
  • I am planning on remortgaging my one bedroom apartment in St Leonard Shoreditch and the mortgage company that I am looking to move to needs a minimum 80 years on the leasehold of my property in order for them to take the mortgage forward. We currently have around sixety seven years on the leasehold so require some advice, guidance, and some quotes to get the wheels in motion for a lease extension
  • Do you handle lease extensions on land? (a plot of land in St Leonard Shoreditch with 82yrs remaining)
  • I have a lease of 56 years remaining on my flat in St Leonard Shoreditch. 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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