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Buying your freehold or extending your lease?
We have a team dedicated to the complex area of leasehold enfranchisement. Our history with residential leasehold law goes back almost two decades, having successfully served the first ever collective enfranchisement claim notice on the day the 1993 Act came into force in 1994.
The team navigates clients through the process of any lease, sale, purchase, enfranchisement or funding; taking a proactive approach to ensure a practical and commercial solution.
Find out more about the team and how we can help you below.
Benefits of buying your freehold
- Control the management of your building;
- Freedom from a nuisance landlord;
- Protect your tenancy and grant yourselves 999 year leases with nil ground rent;
- Choose your own building’s insurer;
- Appoint your own choice of managing agent;
- Regulate your own service charges; and
- Possibility to develop your building.
BDB are recommended by clients for ‘lease enfranchisement, technical residential landlord and tenant advice and conveyancing.’
Legal 500 UK 2018
Benefits of extending your lease
- Add another 90 years to your lease;
- Nil ground rent;
- Increase the value of your flat;
- Boost the saleability of your flat; and
- Make your flat more attractive to lenders.
Go to firm for high-net-worth individuals.
Legal 500 UK 2018
How we can help you
- Our specialist enfranchisement team can advise if you meet the qualification criteria and guide you smoothly through the process;
- We are experienced in handling a variety of enfranchisement claims in prime central London and across all the large freehold estates;
- We are local to you in SW1 and have an in-depth knowledge of the area;
- We have good contacts with specialist valuers familiar with SW1; and
- Q&A sessions with participants can be hosted at our offices opposite St James’s Park tube station.
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