Sample questions relating to Whitton Lease Extensions

  • I have shares in the freehold of buildings comprising of six flats each. 2 of the leaseholders want a lease extension and I'm wondering about the procedure for this
  • I am about to put an offer in on a one bedroom apartment in Whitton with a lease of 59 years but have no idea how much I will have to spend to renew so I can put in an offer given to future cost of a lease extension.
  • We are selling our garden flat in Whitton but we may need to extend the lease, or possibly cover the expense of our purchaser. Can you help me find someone to help us?
  • I am a first time buyer of a leasehold flat in Whitton. The lease has just sixety six years left and ground rent is £95. Is it possible for the owner to serve the Section 42 Notice and then transfer over the right to me as the purchaser on the day of completion so that I can avoid waiting for the 2 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 is achievable but will it be very time costly to the vendor? To add to the complexity the landlord is absent, so I am not sure how does it work.
  • My wife and I have a first floor flat in Whitton with sixety nine years to run. Last year we were quoted a deal to have a lease extension for a further 25 years but also increase ground rent from nominal to a little more..plus a premium I think of approximately 16k. Finally we have decided to move forward but do we now have to start the negotiations again?
  • Me and my partner are considering purchasing a one bedroom first floor purpose built flat in Whitton which is a leasehold. I am wanting to weigh up the pros and cons of that - what occurs when lease expires, how much it costs to extend it, can the freeholder of the property evict me from my own flat and block me from having a lease extension?
  • My friend is concerned about getting a lease extension from an objectionable landlord. Regardless of the fact that the legal procedures were followed under the 1993 Act, the landlord still tried to charge ground rent of £250 increasing by 100% every twenty years of the new term. Can you help?
  • I am currently negotiating a lease extension for my flat in Whitton 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?
  • We have a garden flat in Whitton with a lease of 60 years left with a value of around £370000 we want to add 90 years to it, how much is that likely to cost?
  • I'm looking for some advice with regard to a lease extension on my one bedroom second floor purpose built flat in Whitton. 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 conveyancers who specialises in lease extensions?

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