Questions and Answers: Woburn Lease Extensions

  • I have a lease of 72 years on a property which I am looking to buy how much am I looking at for the cost to extend the lease?
  • I own a leasehold apartment in Woburn. I have built a big extension and have not informed my freeholder. What are my options?
  • My wife and I are considering buying a one bed flat in Woburn which is a leasehold. I am wanting to weigh up the pros and cons of that - what happens when lease ends, the cost of a lease extension, can the freeholder of the property evict me from my own flat and prevent me from extending the lease?
  • We would like to extend our lease. We will have been in the flat for 2 years as of 21st April 2015. It has around fivety four years remaining currently. Hoping to get a lease extension by another 90 years as quickly and stress free as possible.
  • Me and my wife have owned a leasehold flat for approximately twenty years. There are seventy five years outstanding on the lease. Following a year of difficult negotiations through my conveyancing practitioners and, mainly, surveyor I now have an offer from the freeholder. I am at a decision point on whether to accept it or go to LVT and would welcome some independent thoughts.
  • I am the freeholder of a 1930’s property split into two flats. I reside in the top floor flat and my neighbour in the lower flat. My neighbour has approached me for a lease extension from the current 72 years. What are my next steps?
  • I do not need a lease extension but I do need a vesting order on a property I want to buy in Woburn. The house is freehold but the garden is officially leasehold, Nine hundred and ninety nine year lease from 1895. Its the garden area.
  • I'm hoping for some help concerning a lease extension on my flat. The intention is to do this sometime next year as we need to move 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 lawyers with expertise in lease extensions. Ideally nearby in Woburn?
  • I am currently negotiating a lease extension for my flat in Woburn 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 was hoping you might be able to tell me the process of how to apply for a lease extension for my one bedroom apartment in Woburn
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