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Leasehold enfranchisement solicitors
Our multi-award winning leasehold enfranchisement solicitors can help you protect and enhance the value in your property.
Leasehold enfranchisement allows leaseholders to buy the freehold of their property, or to extend its lease. It’s a complex area of law for both landlord and tenants, requiring expert guidance. Our specialist enfranchisement lawyers advise landlords and leaseholders on a wide range of claims. Whether making house claims, collective claims, rights of first refusal or right to manage claims, our dedicated team has extensive experience.
We also provide strategic advice to developers on how to avoid the risk of enfranchisement. This includes the potential impact of the regime on mixed-use properties.
Our experience includes leading cases such as Hosebay in the Supreme Court, Sportelli in the House of Lords and Mundy in the Court of Appeal.
How we can help
We keep it simple. Our expert advice is clear and jargon free. Our enfranchisement solicitors can assist with:
- Buying your freehold
- Extending the lease of your house
- Lease extensions of individual flats
- Buying the freehold of a block of flats (collective enfranchisement)
- Right to manage claims
- Court and tribunal proceedings
- Rights of first refusal
- Property management and investment
- Commonhold schemes
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Frequently asked questions
- you own 3 or more flats in the building
- you hold a business lease To qualify the building must:
- be an independent building, or part of a building, which is capable of independent development
- contain two or more flats held by qualifying tenants
- have at least 75% of the internal floor space used for residential purposes
- have at least two-thirds of the flats in the building held by qualifying tenants
- it comprises 4 or less flats and there is a “resident” freeholder
- the building is part of an operational railway
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If you have a question or need advice, please let us know how we can help.