Our Leasehold Services
Specialist leasehold solicitors helping clients nationwide
At Peppercorn Law, we specialise in leasehold law, providing expert legal advice to leaseholders, flat owners, freehold companies and resident management companies across England and Wales.
Based in Sussex, our specialist leasehold solicitors act for clients nationwide, including London, Brighton, the South East and throughout the country. Thanks to our modern approach to legal services, you do not need to live locally or visit our office to benefit from specialist advice.
Founded by Ricky Coleman, a solicitor with over a decade of experience in leasehold property law, Peppercorn Law combines specialist legal knowledge with a personal, straightforward and efficient service.
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Whether you are extending your lease, purchasing your freehold or taking control of your building's management using the Right to Manage process, we aim to make the legal process as straightforward and stress-free as possible. We do not use jargon and build our approach around removing the mental load of what can be a complex leasehold system.
Lease extensions and specialist leasehold advice
Extending a lease is one of the most important decisions a leaseholder can make. As the remaining lease term reduces, the cost of extending it can increase, and a shorter lease or onerous ground rent may affect the property's value and ability to obtain a mortgage.
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Our lease extension experts guide clients through the statutory lease extension process using our experience to make the transaction as frictionless as possible. We handle the legal process, including preparing and serving Section 42 notices, dealing with freeholders and their solicitors, negotiating legal terms and completing and registering the new lease.
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We offer transparent, fixed-fee lease extension services so that clients understand their legal costs from the outset, and offer handy tools such as our online calculator to help clients in budgeting for likely costs of the whole process.
Collective enfranchisement and buying your freehold
We regularly help groups of leaseholders purchase the freehold of their building through collective enfranchisement.
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Buying your freehold can give leaseholders greater control over their property, including how the building is managed and decisions affecting its future.
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Our collective enfranchisement lawyers advise leaseholders throughout the legal process, from establishing eligibility and preparing the initial notice through to negotiating the legal documentation and completing the freehold purchase along with registration and registering this at the Land Registry.
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We also advise on the leaseholders' right of first refusal, purchasing the freehold of leasehold houses and freehold acquisitions involving missing landlords.
Right to Manage and other leasehold services
For leaseholders who want greater control over the management of their building, we provide specialist advice on exercising the Right to Manage (RTM) and have handled many contested cases involving the most difficult of freeholders, including taking cases all the way through the First-tier Tribunal to enforce the rights of our leaseholder clients.
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We assist with establishing a Right to Manage company, preparing the necessary statutory notices and navigating the legal requirements involved in transferring management responsibilities.
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Nationwide leasehold solicitors with convenient remote onboarding
Although Peppercorn Law is based in Sussex, we act for clients throughout England and Wales. Our services are designed to be accessible wherever you are based.
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Using secure remote identity verification, electronic signatures, email and telephone communication, we can onboard new clients and progress cases without requiring an office visit.
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This modern approach makes instructing a specialist leasehold solicitor convenient, whether you live in Brighton, London, elsewhere in the UK or overseas and own a leasehold property in England or Wales.
Personal service from experienced leasehold specialists
Leasehold law is our specialist area. We understand the complexities of dealing with freeholders, managing agents and statutory procedures, of liaising between valuation surveyors and conveyancers handling the sale of a flat.
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Our approach combines practical advice, clear communication and transparent fees along with years of know-how that you simply will not get at a generalist firm. We take ownership of the legal process, keep clients informed and explain what happens next, and our experience has been known to save our clients thousands of pounds in reducing freeholders costs, challenging defective counter notices and taking an approach that ensures we keep our clients costs down wherever possible.