Author: Flat Living

Could subsidence be a problem for your block? Richard Ayton-Robinson explains what to look out for and how to lower your risk.

Forming a Residents Management Company: what you should know Karen Howell Bowley is Jordans’ foremost expert on the incorporation of RMCs.

The freeholder had threatened to forfeit the intermediate landlord’s headlease if, in breach of covenant, no full time resident caretaker was employed.

Providing you do not collect ground rents or make any capital sales, it is possible that you could make dormant company returns. 

A stage 2 consultation notice which notified the tenants of the landlord’s intention to instruct its preferred contractor was merely notice of a provisional intention so that the lessees were not put off from making observations.

If your concern is that some people are not contributing their share of the costs, then you take straightforward recovery action, usually through the company’s solicitors.

There are varying types of Agent, some smaller offering a more personal service, others larger with a more distant approach to Property Management.

One way of obtaining a long lease is to collaborate with other owners in the building to exercise the right to collective enfranchisement.

Many people may have heard or used the term ‘expert witness’ but how many are actually sure what an expert witness is or what they do.

Summary: In a claim for rectification by construction, the trial judge (Roth J) accepted the landlord’s (Daejan) contention that “premises” meant “house” in a service charge clause in a lease and granted a declaration to that effect. Allowing the appeal, the Court of Appeal held that it was far from clear…