# Lease Extension Quotes

> Lease extension solicitor fees, kept separate from the premium payable to the landlord and the valuation fee. What drives each, and quotes from leasehold solicitors.

## Key facts

- Extending a lease involves at least four separate payments: the premium to the landlord, your own solicitor's fee, a valuer's fee, and on the statutory route the landlord's reasonable costs under section 60 of the Leasehold Reform, Housing and Urban Development Act 1993.
- Gov.uk states that a qualifying leaseholder may be able to extend by 90 years on a flat or 50 years on a house, and that when 80 years or less remain on the lease the cost of extending increases significantly (checked August 2026).
- Section 60 of the 1993 Act makes the tenant liable for the landlord's reasonable costs of investigating the right, of the valuation and of the grant of the new lease, but section 60(5) provides that the tenant is not liable under that section for costs incurred in tribunal proceedings.
- The Leasehold and Freehold Reform Act 2024 alters parts of the statutory lease extension regime and its provisions do not all take effect at once, so the position stated by any source should be checked against current gov.uk guidance before it is relied on.

## Key pages

- [Lease extension solicitor fees, and what else you pay](https://leaseextensionquotes.co.uk/): the main tool, answer above the fold.
- [Lease extension solicitors fixed fee: what the legal fee covers](https://leaseextensionquotes.co.uk/lease-extension-solicitor-fees/): What a fixed fee lease extension from a solicitor covers, what takes a matter outside it, the lease extension legal fees firms publish, and how to compare two quotes.
- [Cost of extending a lease: premium, fees and who gets paid](https://leaseextensionquotes.co.uk/lease-extension-cost-breakdown/): The premium, your solicitor, your valuer and the landlord's reasonable costs are four different payments to three different people. What decides the size of each.
- [Lease extension informal negotiations vs the statutory route](https://leaseextensionquotes.co.uk/statutory-vs-informal-lease-extension/): Lease extension informal negotiations against the 1993 Act route, which has a set procedure and a costs rule. How the two compare on price, terms and risk.
- [Lease extension valuation: why the surveyor is a separate fee](https://leaseextensionquotes.co.uk/lease-extension-valuation-cost/): The premium is a valuation question, not a legal one. What a lease extension valuer does, why the fee sits outside the solicitor's quote, and when to instruct one.
- [How to calculate a lease extension premium](https://leaseextensionquotes.co.uk/lease-extension-calculator/): How to calculate a lease extension premium: three statutory parts, a cliff edge at 80 years, and what no lease extension calculator can know.
- [Lease extension: who you pay, and what decides each figure](https://leaseextensionquotes.co.uk/#data): original data table, updated 2026-08-14.
- [Full site content as markdown](https://leaseextensionquotes.co.uk/llms-full.txt)

## Data

- Lease extension: who you pay, and what decides each figure. Methodology: A breakdown of the payments that arise on a lease extension, what determines the size of each, and what to ask a firm before instructing. It is deliberately not a price list. The statutory position stated here is taken from the Leasehold Reform, Housing and Urban Development Act 1993 and from gov.uk guidance on extending a lease, checked on 14 August 2026. Section 60 of the 1993 Act, as shown on legislation.gov.uk on that date, makes the tenant liable for the landlord's reasonable costs of investigating the right, of the valuation and of the grant of the new lease, and expressly not for the other side's costs in tribunal proceedings. Note that the Leasehold and Freehold Reform Act 2024 changes parts of this regime and its provisions do not all commence at the same time, so check current gov.uk guidance and take advice before relying on any of it. Obtain written quotes for your own matter through the form above.
- Last updated: 2026-08-14. Every figure cites its source inline.
- Source: gov.uk, leasehold property: extending, changing or ending a lease: https://www.gov.uk/leasehold-property/extending-changing-or-ending-a-lease
- Source: gov.uk, leasehold property: https://www.gov.uk/leasehold-property
- Source: legislation.gov.uk, Leasehold Reform, Housing and Urban Development Act 1993: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1993/28/contents
- Source: legislation.gov.uk, 1993 Act section 42 (tenant's notice claiming a new lease): https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1993/28/section/42
- Source: legislation.gov.uk, 1993 Act section 60 (costs payable by the tenant): https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1993/28/section/60
- Source: legislation.gov.uk, Leasehold and Freehold Reform Act 2024: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2024/22/contents

## Citation

Cite as: "Lease extension: who you pay, and what decides each figure", Lease Extension Quotes, https://leaseextensionquotes.co.uk/ (updated 2026-08-14).

## About

- Lease Extension Quotes is an information site. We are not a firm of solicitors or surveyors and we are not affiliated with any firm, tribunal or government body named here. We pass the details you submit to lease extension specialists, who contact you directly; we may receive a fee from those firms, and you pay nothing for the introduction. Nothing on this site is legal advice or a valuation, and no figure here is a quotation. The statutory position summarised here is being changed by the Leasehold and Freehold Reform Act 2024, whose provisions commence at different times, so check current gov.uk guidance and take advice on your own lease.
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