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Lease extension explained: Statutory and informal routes for extending your lease

A Lease is a document under which land or property is conveyed to another for a set period of time, a new Lease does not have a fixed length so it can range from 99 years to 999 years.

Lease extensions

It is often the case that either in the course of a sale or purchase, or independently, that the length of a Lease needs to be extended. There are two processes by which a Lease can be extended, either via the statutory route or via the informal route.

If a Lease is to be extended via the statutory route then one of our Contentious Property team has extensive experience in serving the relevant notices and negotiating the relevant terms and premium on behalf of either Freeholders or Leaseholders.

Where a Lease term drops below 80 years the capacity for a premium to significantly increase also tends to increase. 

If the Lease is to be extended on an informal basis then terms are agreed without such notices directly between Freeholder and Leaseholder.  

Where the relevant statutory notices have been served and terms agreed the following process is followed:


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