Sample questions relating to West Kirby Lease Extensions

  • I have a lease of 75 years on a property which I am looking to buy how much am I looking at for the cost to extend the lease?
  • I inherited a garden flat in West Kirby. The start date for the lease was in 1992 for 99 years. Now I am looking for a lease extension. I am not entirely sure about additional expenses, could you tell me please how much I should expect to spend on this?
  • I'm deliberating over purchasing a garden flat (leasehold) but the freeholder has been absent for approximately 15yrs. I wonder whether it will be cheaper to try to acquire the freehold or to extend lease and apply for RTM?
  • I am concerned that my niece is being hoodwinked. She put in an offer on a one bedroom apartment in West Kirby, where the lease is around seventy four years but she was informed by the selling agents that the current owner had extended it to 125 years. She has now been advised the seller was holding off for her to retain solicitors before commencing with the lease extension. Sounds unscrupulous, also it will take time to sort it all out. Am I being too sceptical?
  • I own a share of the freehold. There are four apartments in the house. All the leaseholders are now requiring lease extensions. What are the timescales to grant a lease extension?
  • My (separately handling my lease extension) said I need a licence to alter given that I wish to carry out a loft extension to my property. Is this strictly required given that I have a share of the freehold. I've informally discussed the loft conversion with my co-freeholder some time ago and he had no objection once I reassured him that if my builder damages the roof I won't expect the co-freeholder to pay for future repairs to the roof. Assuming I need formal consent should I get the licence to alter and then start the lease extension process?
  • I do not need a lease extension but I do require a vesting order on a property I want to purchase in West Kirby. The house is freehold but the garden is officially leasehold, 995 year lease from 1889. Its the rear garden.
  • We are purchasing a garden flat in West Kirby which has share of freehold and a leasehold. The lease was on the short side so the vendor commenced extending the lease. The vendor has submitted the lease extension paperwork to HMLR. An essential part of the conveyancing process is for our to do a pre-completion search on the property title. 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 lease title number has not been issued. Is it correct that we have to wait pending registration of the new lease?
  • I am currently negotiating a lease extension for my flat in West Kirby 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 have a lease of 68 years remaining on my flat in West Kirby. 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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