Examples of recent questions relating to Lease Extensions in Woldingham

  • I need to extend my existing lease can you assist? My investigation with the Land Registry reveal that it has seventy five years remaining
  • I inherited a ground floor flat based in Woldingham with a leasehold unexpired of sixety three years. I am curious about what it will cost me to extend my lease term
  • I am going to purchase a flat in Woldingham. My offer is conditional upon a lease extension. The owner’s has served the Section 42 Notice. Once this notice has been accepted by the freeholder, it is possible for the lessee to assign the benefit of that notice to me, the buyer, so that the buyer “stands in the shoes” of the Lessee, so to speak. I was wondering if this could be a problem for the mortgage lender Accord Mortgages Ltd. Moreover, which are the following lease extension steps to complete the purchase?
  • I am looking into the costs of carrying out a lease extension for my 2 bed flat in Woldingham, and would like some figures on that.
  • I am a first time buyer of a leasehold flat in Woldingham. The lease has just sixety eight years residual lease term and ground rent is £75. Is it possible for the vendor to serve the Initial Notice and then assign this right to me as the buyer on the day of completion so that I can avoid waiting for the two 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 consuming to the seller? Unfortunately the freeholder can not be found, so I am not sure how does it work.
  • I have my suspicions that my daughter is being hoodwinked. She put in an offer on a garden flat in Woldingham, where the lease is about 67 years but she was advised by the estate agents that the homeowner had extended it to 99 years. Only now has she been advised the vendor was waiting for her to instruct conveyancers ahead of instigating the lease extension. Seems odd to me, also it will take months to sort it all out. Am I being too sceptical?
  • I own 60% in a shared ownership flat with a housing association and I am considering a lease extension on a lease which is now around 63 years. I need a at my end. Can you advise please? I live near Woldingham and have a mortgage with Nationwide Building Society.
  • My wife and I are concerned about obtaining a lease extension from tricky freeholder. Even though the legal procedures were followed under the 1993 Act, the landlord still attempted to get ground rent of £300 doubling every 25 years of the new term. Can you help?
  • I was hoping you might be able to tell me the process of how to apply for a lease extension for my two bedroom first floor purpose built flat in Woldingham
  • I have a lease of 58 years remaining on my flat in Woldingham. 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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