Top Ten Questions relating to Wormwood Scrubs Lease Extensions

  • I’m thinking about a lease extension for our flat located in Wormwood Scrubs and we don't fully understand the letter that we got from our landlord company. What's your legal fee?
  • I am fairly sure that our property lawyers has advised us incorrectly concerning a lease extension and I want to know how to complain
  • I have an interest in the freehold of 2 blocks of flats comprising of six flats each. 2 of the leaseholders want a lease extension and I'm wondering about the the process
  • I own a leasehold flat in the Wormwood Scrubs area and was enquiring whether I could obtain a lease extension. What are your processes and fees. Has 71 years outstanding
  • I want to buy a leasehold property and extend the lease. The flat owner has been there over 2 years and will sign the notice. He will let me have the notice on exchange and then I will serve it in the landlord. Is this OK ?
  • Think I may have made an error, I am seeking a lawyers in Wormwood Scrubs who has Leasehold Tribunal expertise when it comes to lease extensions. Is this something you can help me with?
  • I have my suspicions that my niece is being hoodwinked. She submitted an offer on a ground floor flat in Wormwood Scrubs, where the lease is approximately 54 years but she was advised by the selling agents that the flat owner had extended it to 99 years. Only now has she been advised the current owner was waiting for her to instruct solicitors before commencing with the lease extension. Sounds unscrupulous, also it could take a while to sort it all out. Am I reading too much into it?
  • I am planning to get a lease extension and am wondering what step I have to do first, I have been previously advised that I have to have the finances in place before I set the ball rolling, is this correct?
  • I am concerned about obtaining a lease extension from a difficult freeholder. Regardless of the fact that the correct procedures were adhered to under the appropriate legislation, the freeholder still attempted to get ground rent of £200 increasing by 100% every twenty years of the new term. Can you assist?
  • I am currently negotiating a lease extension for my flat in Wormwood Scrubs 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?

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