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When taking on the role of Residents’ Management Company (RMC) Director or Officer, many tasks that land at your feet may feel overwhelming.
We’ve put together a checklist to make sure you approach the situation in the best way possible and with the required knowledge of the law.
Everyone should know why they need to pay service charges, its usually written in the lease, which they signed when they bought the property.
Service charges are payable annually to cover the landlord’s costs for providing services and maintaining the common areas of the building.
If a landlord wanted to carry out major works to a block that would cost any one leaseholder over £250, all leaseholders must be consulted.
A leaseholder is generally required to pay various charges under the terms of their lease, such as service charges and ground rent.
In this article Phil Parkinson and Katie Edwards of JB Leitch, look at the nature, definitions and parameters of estate rentcharges.
Service charge is the money a leaseholder or a freeholder of a property, pays towards the day-to-day running costs of your development.
Liz Rowen, Legal Director at UK-top 200 Yorkshire law firm Keebles LLP, explains why a recent forfeiture case ruled in favour of the tenant