Top Ten Questions relating to The Hale Lease Extensions

  • 40k agreed with the landlord’s agents, just attempting to find a The Hale for a lease extension. Our flat has around 59 yrsremaining. How long will this take ?
  • Hello. I need someone to have a look at my lease extension prior to it being formalised just to make sure there's nothing that I haven't seen - it's just a surrender and regrant with a few small amendments.
  • I own a garden flat in The Hale. The lease started in 1998 for 99 years. Now I am looking to extend the lease. I am uncertain about additional expenses, could you tell me please how much I should expect to spend on this?
  • We are in a block made up five flats in The Hale and have been offered to buy the freehold for £6000 per flat rather than go for lease extensions. We are all in agreement that we want to do this but how do we get started and what is the likely cost?
  • If somebody owns a flat with a lease of less than 80 years, they can afford the lease extension by borrowing the funds against the property, and the value of the flat with the new lease will more than cover the cost of the extension, then is there any justification for not extending the lease?
  • I own the freehold reversion of a property in The Hale where the leaseholder has requested a lease extension. Her so called valuation expert has suggested a figure of £9,000, but has increased this to £10,000 without too much effort. My valuer has recommended a much higher premium. She does not appear to wish to negotiate wanting to go to a FTT. If a lease extension does go to tribunal, can I handle the matter myself, just equipped with the valuations I have? If not, what charges would I be likely to incur?
  • My wife and I are worried about obtaining a lease extension from a difficult landlord. Notwithstanding that the legal procedures were followed under the 1993 Act, the landlord still attempted to charge ground rent of £300 increasing by 100% every 25 years of the new term. Can you assist?
  • I am planning on remortgaging my 2 bed flat in The Hale and the mortgage company that I am looking to move to needs at least 80 years remaining on the lease in order for them to take the mortgage forward. I have found that I currently have around 56 years on the leasehold so require some advice, guidance, and some quotes to start the lease extension process
  • We currently own a ground floor flat in The Hale 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 54 years left. Not sure what to do, have read some bits on the web saying it will be 13k plus to get a lease extension. Can you offer some advice on this? Should I contact the landlord first and will they be able to give me a cost?
  • I'm looking for some advice with regard to a lease extension on my studio flat in The Hale. I'll be looking to do this sometime next year as we need to move at some point then. Unfortunately the current lease is now very short and therefore I'm guessing it'll be expensive to extend. I'm also thinking that I'll probably have to go down the tribunal route. Can you recommend a good who specialises in lease extensions?

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