It may be your legal right to extend the lease on your flat. Giles Wilson can advise you on your options and act on your behalf to ensure the process is completed efficiently.
If you have owned your flat for at least two years and meet other qualifying criteria, you are legally entitled to extend the lease of your residential flat by 90 years at a fair market price. However, this relatively straightforward process can turn into an extremely costly affair if you are not aware of the circumstances surrounding your property and your lease.
Our dedicated property team can advise you on whether you need to extend your lease and how quickly you need to do it. And when the time comes, our solicitors can be brought on to handle all of the paperwork, ensuring the process runs smoothly. We also have experienced solicitors that deal on the part of the Landlord, helping you reach a favourable outcome from an investment perspective.
You don't have to live in Essex to benefit from our lease extension service. If you're a flat owner in London and don't want to pay the high legal fees of City-based solicitors, you can turn to Giles Wilson to handle your case.
Our knowledgeable solicitors guarantee a smooth lease extension process – a service available to residents in both London and Essex.
Have you thought that one day, when the time comes, you would like to keep your parents’ home in the family? Perhaps live there yourself? Even bring up a family there? You may even have had conversations with your siblings about how one of you would buy out the others. If this is something you are thinking about – you need to start planning now.
The Act brought in a form of protection to the leasehold flat by a Certificate Scheme but unless these certificates are granted at the right time, and in the right way, the protection can be lost. It is crucial that the correct Certificates are in place if you want to sell your leasehold flat, or if you wish to buy one.
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The expertise of our solicitors is regularly recognised by some of the profession’s most distinguished organisations. As well as being a member of a number of Law Society schemes, we have won awards at the Law Society Excellence Awards, the Halsbury Legal Awards and the Modern Law Awards.
We have also received recognition in the form of the Lexcel mark of quality, a Legal 500 listing and a place on the shortlist of The Lawyer’s Boutique Firm of the Year.
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