Stop! Your Lease Extension in St Leonard Shoreditch Could Be FREE

Many leaseholders in St Leonard Shoreditch are unaware that their original lawyer had a duty to warn them about future mortgageability and saleability issues. Before you pay thousands to your freeholder, let us audit your purchase history. You might have a claim that pays for your lease extension in full

If you are facing a significant premium because your lease in St Leonard Shoreditch has dropped toward the 80-year mark, your previous lawyer may be at fault. Our panel of experts specialise in recovering lease extension costs from negligent firms who failed to protect your investment.

Why you should start your St Leonard Shoreditch lease extension


Main reasons to commence your St Leonard Shoreditch lease extension today:

Increase your lease and increase your St Leonard Shoreditch property value

St Leonard Shoreditch leases on domestic deteriorating in value. Where your lease has approximately ninety years remaining, you should start considering the need for a lease extension. An important point to note is that it is desirable for the lease extension to be in place before the term of the existing lease drops below eighty years - otherwise a higher amount will be payable. Flat owners in St Leonard Shoreditch will usually be legally entitled to a lease extension; however It would be wise to check with a conveyancer to confirm if you qualify. In some cases you may not qualify. There are also strict deadlines and formalities to follow once the process has started so it’s sensible to be guided by a conveyancer during the process.

An extended lease has roughly the same value as a freehold

It is conventional wisdom that a property with more than one hundred years unexpired lease term is worth roughly the equivalent as a freehold. Where an further 90 years added to any lease with more than 45 years remaining, the premises will be equivalent in value to a freehold for decades to come.

Mortgage lenders will not loan monies with a short lease

Most banks have narrowed their lending criteria in recent years and borrowers are finding it increasingly difficult to raise funding or re-mortgage against property with shorter lease terms, particularly under 75 years as they are regarded as inadequate for lending purposes.

Lender Requirement
Birmingham Midshires
Godiva Mortgages
Leeds Building Society
Santander
Royal Bank of Scotland

Why use us for your lease extension in St Leonard Shoreditch?

Irrespective of whether you are a tenant or a freeholder in St Leonard Shoreditch,the lease extension experts that we work with will always be happy to discuss any residential leasehold matters and offer you the benefit of their in-depth market knowledge and the close ties they enjoy with St Leonard Shoreditch valuers.

St Leonard Shoreditch Lease Extension Example Cases:

Jake, St Leonard Shoreditch, London,

Jake owned a 2 bedroom flat in St Leonard Shoreditch on the market with a lease of a little over 59 years outstanding. Jake on an informal basis approached his freeholder being a well known local-based freehold company and enquired on a premium to extend the lease. The freeholder indicated a willingness to extend the lease to 125 years on the basis of a new rent at the outset set at £150 per annum and doubled every twenty five years thereafter. No ground rent would be payable on a lease extension were Jake to invoke his statutory right. Jake procured expert legal guidance and secured satisfactory deal informally and readily saleable.

St Leonard Shoreditch case:

Last Autumn we were phoned by Mr and Mrs. K Laurent , who completed a studio apartment in St Leonard Shoreditch in August 2008. The dilemma was if we could shed any light on how much (approximately) compensation to the landlord would be for a ninety year lease extension. Comparative premises in St Leonard Shoreditch with an extended lease were worth £270,000. The average ground rent payable was £55 billed quarterly. The lease finished in 2100. Given that there were 74 years outstanding we estimated the premium to the landlord to extend the lease to be within £9,500 and £11,000 not including professional charges.

Decision in Hackney

An example of a Lease Extension case for a St Leonard Shoreditch property is 137 & 139 Haberdasher Street in December 2013. The Tribunal determines in accordance with section 48 and Schedule 13 of the Leasehold Reform, Housing and Urban Development Act 1993 that the premium for the extended lease for each Property should be £12,350.00. This case was in relation to 2 flats. The unexpired term as at the valuation date was 72.39 years.