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A statutory lease extension is your legal right.
It will add 90 years to your lease and reduce your ground rent to £0.
It will increase the value of your flat and make it easier to sell.
We ensure you get a fair deal on your lease extension, by using our detailed valuation work to negotiate effectively
For a competitive fixed price, we will look after your lease extension from valuation to completion, updating you every week
Our end-to-end lease extension service is a fixed fee of £2,580+VAT.
As we progress through your lease extension this fee is paid in three equal installments of £860+VAT.
Your valuation, negotiation and legal work – as outlined above
All costs of negotiating with your freeholder
The project management work to bring it all together
Land Registry fees, searches, postage etc – there are no "hidden fees"!
The cost of extending the lease (the premium)
Your freeholder's valuation and legal costs – which you have to pay
Going to tribunal. Find out more about our fixed price tribunal services by contacting us.
Lease extensions where we anticipate the premium being over £40,000
Interested in learning more about our fixed fee lease extension service?
If you'd like to get a rough estimate of how much you'll have to pay to your freeholder to extend your lease you can use our online calculator free of charge.
Our calculator reflects the latest changes and developments in leasehold law.
Homehold is staffed with some of the best lease extension solicitors and valuers in the sector.
Linz Darlington, our Director, is an ex-Strategy and Valuation Consultant. He is on a mission to put your faith back into customer service.
We have a specialist team of valuers, who have the expertise to negotiate a fair premium.
To ensure you can benefit from the very best legal services, Homehold have set up our own firm of solicitors. LLS is led by Leah Veasey, a specialist enfranchisement solicitor with over 1,000 lease extensions under her belt.
Everyone working on your lease extension will have one thing in common: they will strive to provide you with a five-star service every step of the way.
A. Your lease extension will get more expensive as the years tick by. By extending it now, you are avoiding paying (far) more in the future. Adding an additional 90 years and removing the ground rent will make your flat easier to mortgage and sell.
A. You are usually eligible for a lease extension if your flat: (a) was originally leased for 21 or more years, (b) doesn’t have the Crown Estate or National Trust as the freeholder, (c) isn’t owned on a shared ownership scheme where you pay rent, (d) has been owned by you for more than two years.
A. As soon as a lease drops below 80 years it gets more expensive to extend and increasingly difficult to mortgage. Anyone who has a lease of less than 100 years should have a lease extension on their radar, with a plan to extend before it gets to the 80-year mark or before they sell the property. If your ground rent is high then doing a lease extension will also remove this.
A. Why would you not? We're a specialist lease extension company with a valuation team in-house, and we own a firm of lease extension solicitors. Compare our fixed fee to the cheapest lease extension solicitors and surveyors: you'll see we're competively priced and by using us, you're not stuck managing two sets of professionals.
A. Our surveyors and solicitors have extensive experience with lease extensions in London. We have worked with many of the Central London landlords. If your freeholder is one of the London borough councils, we’ve almost certainly worked with them too.
A. Yes, we work across England and Wales. Whether your flat is in London, Cardiff or Plymouth or Newcastle, our solicitors and surveyors can help with your lease extension.
A. Yes, the £2,580+VAT includes all the legal, valuation and negotiation work you need for your lease extension and also "disbursements", which are charges some solicitors add on top. You will also have to pay your freeholder's legal and valuation costs.
A. Yes, absolutely. We're committed to negotiating a fair price (read our reviews) and we never want you to have to choose between accepting a price that is too high or continuing to fund negotiations without knowing if it is worth it.
A. No. We were set up by a leaseholder for leaseholders. In order to negotiate fair premiums for leaseholders we can't be using one set of arguments one day, and another set the next.
A. Yes. ALEP is the kitemark that recognises the best lease extension solicitors and surveyors in the industry. Homehold are a full member. Lease extensions involve complex areas of law and valuation, so they are best left to specialist professionals. Homehold's own law firm, LLS, is also authorised and regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority.
A. We're not sure that we have any direct competitors. As far as we know we're the lease extension company who only works for just leaseholders and that uses their own solicitors and surveyors, rather than outsourcing. By using our own team of valuers and our own law firm, we can keep the quality high.
A. We have a specialist team who is very experienced in this type of work - it's all we do. We are the lease extension company to choose if you want true specialists. Everytime we find a way to improve, we apply it consistently across our processes. If we get something wrong, we'll always do our best to put it right.
Our expert solicitors and valuers are frequently called upon for content and comment about lease extensions from the industry and national press, in addition for writing for our own knowledge hub
27 Mar 2026
Estate Agent Today covered our comment about tethering the Leasehold and Freehold Reform Act 2024 with a draft bill that has not even started its way through the formal legislative process. This will delay the implementation of the 2024 Act, and so delay the potential benefit to leaseholders wanting to extend their leases.
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26 Mar 2026
Our Managing Director, Linz Darlington warns that leaseholders are "held hostage" by policy delays. He criticises Housing Minister Matthew Pennycook for blaming the previous government instead of implementing the 2024 Act. We argue that tethering current reforms to future, complex legislation could delay cheaper lease extensions until 2028 or beyond.
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28 Jan 2026
Our Director, Linz Darlington, gave his views to Today's Conveyancer that the £250 ground rent cap is a sensible compromise that aids remortgaging, though he remains skeptical of the government's timeline. He criticised the "glacial" pace of reform, noting that previous promises remain unfulfilled. Leaseholders need prompt implementation rather than further legislative delays.
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27 Jan 2026
The Guardian reports the government will cap ground rents for leaseholders at £250 annually, falling to a peppercorn after 40 years. Linz Darlington welcomes the step but explains that the prompt implementation of this cap is needed to actually benefit leaseholders.
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