Summertown Lease Extensions: Q and A’s

  • Me and my fiance have just purchased a one bedroom apartment located inSummertown and I'm considering extending the lease as soon as possible e.g. in 24 months of ownership
  • I am looking for a rough estimate of what a lease extension will cost for a flat I would like to buy. It has 78 years outstanding.
  • Think I may have made an error, I am actually looking for a in Summertown who has Leasehold Tribunal expertise in relation to lease extensions. Are you able to assist me with?
  • I am a first time buyer of a leasehold flat in Summertown. The lease has just fivety five years unexpired and ground rent is £95. Is it possible for the homeowner to serve the Initial Notice and then transfer 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 costly to the current owner? Unfortunately it’s the case of an absent landlord, so I am not sure how this will play out.
  • We have a one bedroom flat based in Summertown. There is 80 years to run on the lease and we want a lease extension. How much will it likely cost to get a lease extension by, say,fifty years
  • My dad has a share of freehold, with two other leaseholders in a building in Summertown. House divided into three flats. He has a lease, which has approximately 59 yrs left. Does he have to do the lease extension at the same time with the other tenants, or could he extend the lease on his own?
  • I am the freeholder of a 1930’s property split into two flats. I reside in the upper flat and my neighbour in the lower flat. My neighbour has approached me for a lease extension from the current sixety eight years. What are my next steps?
  • We currently own a studio flat in Summertown 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 seventy four 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. Do you have some advice on this? Do I contact the freeholder first and will they be able to give me a cost?
  • We wanted an estimate on the cost of a lease extension and a few more questions answered regarding a lease extension for my studio flat in Summertown
  • I have a lease of 72 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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