Enfield
London Boroughs Lease extension and freehold purchase solicitors in Enfield A very large proportion of Enfield’s leasehold stock is former council maisonettes — a building type that raises demise and repair questions a purpose-built block never does. Meridian Water is adding an entirely different set of problems at the other end of the borough. On […]
Haringey
London Boroughs Lease extension and freehold purchase solicitors in Haringey Crouch End, Muswell Hill and Highgate are conversion territory, where the real question is almost never whether to extend but whether the leaseholders should buy the freehold together instead — and where the answer usually depends on how many flats there are. On This Page […]
Waltham Forest
London Boroughs Lease extension and freehold purchase solicitors in Waltham Forest A great many Walthamstow and Leyton freeholds were sold off to investment companies decades ago, so the landlord is usually a portfolio holder rather than a person — which changes both the negotiation and the drafting of the new lease you are offered. On […]
Barnet
London Boroughs Lease extension and freehold purchase solicitors in Barnet Barnet contains two leasehold markets that need opposite advice. The 1930s mansion blocks of Golders Green, Hendon and Finchley have a lease length problem. The Colindale towers have a ground rent problem — and the answer to one is rarely the answer to the other. […]
Redbridge
London Boroughs Lease extension and freehold purchase solicitors in Redbridge A great many Redbridge flats sit on 99-year leases granted in the 1960s and 1970s. Those leases are now well below eighty years, the premium is rising every year, and a substantial number of owners have never checked. On This Page OverviewThe arithmetic of waitingThe […]
Newham
London Boroughs Lease extension and freehold purchase solicitors in Newham More new leasehold has been created in Newham over the last fifteen years than almost anywhere in Britain. The issues here are modern ones: estate management companies, escalating ground rents, building safety certificates and service charges nobody can explain. On This Page OverviewModern leases, modern […]
Brent
London Boroughs Lease extension and freehold purchase solicitors in Brent Wembley Park is one of the largest single leasehold developments in Europe, where the landlord you deal with is usually a management company rather than a traditional freeholder. Two miles away in Kilburn and Queen’s Park, the issue is Victorian conversions with leases that ran […]
Barking and Dagenham
London Boroughs Lease extension and freehold purchase solicitors in Barking and Dagenham Two entirely different leasehold problems sit in one borough: Right to Buy leases granted on the Becontree Estate in the 1980s that are now running short, and brand-new leases at Barking Riverside carrying estate charges and management company structures nobody explained at the […]
Havering
London Boroughs Lease extension and freehold purchase solicitors in Havering Havering’s flatted stock is dominated by two building types that raise the same underlying question: converted maisonettes and flats above shopping parades. In both, what the lease actually demises is far less obvious than it looks. On This Page OverviewFlats above shops, and what that […]
Bexley
London Boroughs Lease extension and freehold purchase solicitors in Bexley Bexley’s leasehold stock is unusual: more maisonettes than flats, a great many converted pairs, and freeholds that were sold off to individuals decades ago and never heard of since. Missing landlord work is more common here than almost anywhere else in London. On This Page […]