Author: Flat Living

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

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

Bruce Maunder Taylor looks at a recent case that highlights the necessity of planning maintenance ahead of time and spreading the costs.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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…

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.