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The right to extend leases of Notting Hill flats to buyMany Notting Hill flats to buy to buy will have relatively short leases – less than 60 years. In some circumstances the owner can have the lease extended. Owners of Notting Hill flats to buy can only do this if their leases were originally granted for more than 21 years. The remaining qualification is that they have to have owned their Notting Hill flats to buy for more than 2 years. (People who don’t live in their Notting Hill flat also have this right. It’s a change from the old rule that the right only applied to resident owners.) Once that 2 year period is up they should have the right to extend their lease terms, but the rules are more complicated than this short summary, so owners or buyers of Notting Hill flats to buy must take advice on the specific facts. People who extend their leases get to own their Notting Hill flats to buy for an extra 90 years. The 90 years is added on to what remains of the present term. For Notting Hill flats to buy with 50 years left on the lease, then the new lease will be 50 plus 90 equals 140 years. |
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Marriage value for lease extensions of Notting Hill flats to buyFor Notting Hill flats to buy with 80 years or more still to run, no marriage value is payable. For Notting Hill flats to buy with lease terms below 80 years, marriage value is payable. The marriage value is a hugely complicated issue which expert surveyors can argue over for days. But in the simplest terms, it is roughly the difference between the value of a flat with the extra term and the present value with its short term. This is then split equally between the flat owner and the landlord and so the flat owner has to pay half the extra value to the landlord (and therefore gets half free). This is usually the big item for lease extensions of Notting Hill flats to buy. |
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Diminution in value of the freehold with lease extensions of Notting Hill flats to buyCalculating the price for extension leases of Notting Hill flats to buy is a relatively complicated process. For qualifying Notting Hill flats to buy, the flat owner is entitled to a new term at nil rent. The landlord loses out by the amount of the ground rent he would have got till the end of the current term. So for most Notting Hill flats to buy there will be some compensation for the landlord for loss of that rent. |
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Other costs with lease extensions of Notting Hill flats to buyWhen making claims to extend leases of Notting Hill flats to buy, the offer must be for a reasonable amount or the claim is considered invalid. That means you need to get an surveyor expert in valuing Notting Hill flats to buy to give you some help in working out what figure to include in your claim. |
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Buying the freehold of a block of Notting Hill flats to buyThe owners of several Notting Hill flats to buy can apply to buy the freehold of their building. It’s often called ‘the right to buy’. It’s a legal right which some flat owners in some blocks of Notting Hill flats to buy have. It’s quite complicated so this is just a very broad summary and you need legal advice on the specific facts in your case. There must be at least 2 flats. (The existence of commercial premises in the building can remove the right to buy.) two thirds of the qualifying flat owners must join in the application. Flat owners of flats qualify if their leases were originally granted for 21 years or more. So if you are in a block of Notting Hill flats to buy and enough of your neighbours concur, you can join together to buy it. But I am not going to detail the prices or procedures since it’s more usual and easier to extend leases of Notting Hill flats to buy as above. |
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Alterations to Notting Hill flats to buyAlterations to Notting Hill flats to buy will almost certainly require building regulation consent. This is the local council’s control over how building works are carried out. Usually before work any to Notting Hill flats to buy commences, the local council’s building surveyor will come and inspect. He will then supervise the works as they go along. At the end, he must provide a certificate confirming the works were done satisfactorily, so you can show that to a future buyer. For some alterations to Notting Hill flats to buy you will need listed building consent (if the block of Notting Hill flats to buy is a listed building) and even planning permission. Even for internal alterations in a block of Notting Hill flats to buy you will almost certainly require a written consent from the landlord. You should consult a surveyor before starting work. |
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Communal maintenance of a block of Notting Hill flats to buyFor the owners of Notting Hill flats to buy, the maintenance of the whole building has to be a communal matter. In small conversions with maybe 2 or 3 Notting Hill flats to buy, it is practical for each flat owner to repair his own area – but even so it is unfair for the top flat owner to have to repair the roof. The fairer method, which is usually adopted, is that everyone in a building shares the cost of maintaining the roof, foundations and services. Each flat contributes a proportion which is normally calculated by reference to floor area. |
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The rise of Notting Hill flats to buy in the 20th centuryDevelopers wanted to squeeze profit out of every available space when they converted houses into Notting Hill flats to buy. Annexes were often built at the back to create extra rooms for Notting Hill flats to buy on the various floors. You will also see many Notting Hill flats to buy with dormer windows in the gable roofs, or behind the balustrade. Some may be original as rooms designed for Victorian servants but many were put in during the last century as part of the conversion to Notting Hill flats to buy in place of houses. |
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Notting Hill flats to buy made possible by improvements in sanitationThere was no drainage inside buildings and little or no public drainage in the streets in early to mid 19th century in Notting Hill. So it was impractical to create buildings of several storeys for individual Notting Hill flats to buy. Family houses were built rather than Notting Hill flats to buy. With the introduction of drainage and the invention of the flushing toilet, the various floors could be self-contained and Notting Hill flats to buy came into their own. |
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Notting Hill flats to buy in period propertiesThe construction of buildings designed to provide purpose-built Notting Hill flats to buy became prevalent only in late Victorian times. Throughout most of the Victorian period, the developers constructed ever larger family houses. Most Notting Hill flats to buy in period houses are the result of conversions in the 1970s onwards. Many properties which were built as houses have long since been sub-divided into Notting Hill flats to buy. |
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