Windmill Hill Lease Extensions Example Support Desk Enquiries

  • The intention is to sell our one bedroom apartment in Windmill Hill but we may need to extend the lease, or at least cover the costs of our buyers. Are you able to help me find a to assist?
  • I'm thinking of buying a studio flat (leasehold) but the freeholder has been absent for slightly more than 15yrs. My question is would it be cheaper to try to buy the freehold or to extend lease and apply for right to manage?
  • My neighbours and I are in a building containing three flats in Windmill Hill and have been offered to buy the freehold for 8k 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?
  • My mortgage provider requires a £450 fee for their to agree a lease extension for my flat in Windmill Hill... I can find no reference of this in my mortgage literature... is this a normal cost that they charge?
  • We would like to extend our lease having owned the apartment for 2 years as of 22nd Feb 2015. It has circa fivety seven years remaining currently. Hoping to get a lease extension with a further 90 years as expeditiously and stress free as is reasonably achievable.
  • Offer accepted on a a one bedroom apartment in Windmill Hill, were told numerous times by the EA that the lease had over 100 years, we have just had our mortgage offer sent through which states the lease as 85 years.We are about to exchange contracts in a couple of days. My query is Is it not odd that my didn't spot this far earlier than just before exchange?
  • I am looking to buy a one bed flat in Windmill Hill for asking price of 145k, which has 66 years lease left on it. I appreciate that ideally, the seller would start the process by serving a section 42 notice to start the lease extension process but the seller is refusing to assist. My question is: If landlord does not agree to a marriage value (part of lease extension fees) of a valuer, how lengthy and easy is the process of going down the route of Leasehold Valuation Tribunal?
  • 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?
  • My wife and I are aware that others in the same building previously had a lease extension, and the landlord was amenable. It therefore appears worth taking risk of avoiding a formal valuation and base the initial offer on on the premiums paid by others . This would save on double valuation charges. Would you recommend such a course of action?
  • I have a lease of 57 years remaining on my flat in Windmill Hill. 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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