Owning a apartment usually means owning a lease of the property, this is a ‘time-limited’ interest becoming shorter every day. The lease will usually be granted for a set period of time , usually 99 or 125 years, although we have seen longer and shorter terms in Kingston upon Thames. Clearly, the term of lease remaining reduces as time goes by. This may slip by relatively unnoticed when the residence has to be sold or re-mortgaged. The fewer the years remaining the lower the value of the property and the more it will cost to procure a lease extension. Eligible leaseholders in Kingston upon Thames have the legal entitlement to extend the lease for an additional ninety years under Leasehold Reform legislation. You should give careful deliberation before putting off your Kingston upon Thames lease extension. Holding off that expense now likely increases the price you will ultimately have to pay for a lease extension
It is generally accepted that a residential leasehold with in excess of 100 years remaining is worth roughly the equivalent as a freehold. Where an further ninety years added to any lease with more than 35 years remaining, the premises will be equivalent in value to a freehold for decades to come.
Lender | Requirement |
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Accord Mortgages | 85 years from the date of completion of the mortgage. Please ensure that you explain the implications of a short term lease to the borrower. |
Godiva Mortgages | A minimum of 70 years unexpired lease at completion for all scheme types apart from Lifetime Mortgages (Equity Release), which require a minimum unexpired term of 80 years at completion. |
Lloyds TSB Scotland | Minimum 70 years from the date of the mortgage. |
Royal Bank of Scotland | Mortgage term plus 30 years. |
Yorkshire Building Society | 85 years from the date of completion of the mortgage. Please ensure that you explain the implications of a short term lease to the borrower. |
Regardless of whether you are a tenant or a landlord in Kingston upon Thames,the lease extension lawyers that we work with will always be prepared to discuss any residential leasehold matters and offer you the benefit of their experience and the close ties they enjoy with Kingston upon Thames valuers.
Subsequent to protracted negotiations with the freeholder of her basement apartment in Kingston upon Thames, Sarah initiated the lease extension process as the 80 year deadline was fast nearing. The lease extension was concluded in September 2006. The landlord’s costs were kept to an absolute minimum.
Mrs Rachel Baker completed a ground floor apartment in Kingston upon Thames in August 2003. The dilemma was if we could shed any light on how much (roughly) compensation to the landlord would be to extend the lease by a further 90 years. Similar premises in Kingston upon Thames with a long lease were in the region of £270,000. The mid-range amount of ground rent was £55 collected yearly. The lease elapsed on 19 March 2100. Given that there were 75 years unexpired we calculated the compensation to the freeholder to extend the lease to be between £9,500 and £11,000 exclusive of legals.
An example of a Lease Extension decision for a Kingston upon Thames residence is Flat D 15 Claremont Gardens in September 2013. TheTribunal determined in accordance with section48 and Schedule13 of the Leasehold Reform,Housing and Urban Development Act 1993 that the premium for the extended lease should be fourteen thousand one hundred and eighty seven pounds (£14,187.00) This case was in relation to 1 flat.