Frequently asked questions relating to Summertown Lease Extensions

  • I think our has advised us incorrectly concerning a lease extension and I want to find out how to complain
  • I need to extend my current lease can you help me with that? I think it has seventy five years balance left
  • I have contacted my freeholder for a lease extension for my flat in Summertown. His has been in contact with fees etc. I need an estimate for dealing with the legalities to secure a lease extension. The apartment currently has a 99 YR lease which started July 1986.
  • The terms for the lease on my apartment in Summertown are 99 years from 10 Jan 1980. Can you give me a quote to extend the lease if I give you more information please?
  • I am considering whether to purchase the freehold or a lease extension of my property in Summertown and have been in touch with the freeholder, have had quote for around £4k to extend the lease. I will be doing a get a new mortgage with Chelsea Building Society to release of equity. The broker dealing with the remortgage suggested I get two estimates : one to extend the lease and one for the freehold acquisition .The lease began in 1972 and since then the ground rent has been raised from £15.00 per year to £100 per year.
  • I own 50% in a shared ownership property with a housing association and I am considering a lease extension on a lease which is now around sixety two years. I need a at my end. Can you advise please? I live near Summertown and have a mortgage with The Royal Bank of Scotland.
  • I am currently negotiating a lease extension for my flat in Summertown 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?
  • I was hoping you might be able to tell me the process of how to apply for a lease extension for my one bed flat in Summertown
  • Do you handle lease extensions on land? (a plot of land in Summertown with 82yrs remaining)
  • I have a lease of 61 years remaining on my flat in Summertown. 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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