An arms length management organisation (ALMO) is a not-for-profit company that provides housing services on behalf of a local housing authority (LHA). Usually an ALMO is...
The Approval of Code of Management Practice (Residential Management) (Service Charges) (England) Order 2016, SI 2016/518 approves the Service Charge Residential...
Where a certificate is required to ascertain the service charge then it has been held in Urban Splash Work Ltd v Ridgway and another [2018] UKUT 32 (LC) that there is no...
Repair and improvements A tenant will not generally be expected to pay for the landlord to upgrade or improve its property as opposed to repairing it. The length of a...
The court may imply an obligation on the landlord to provide certain services in the absence of an express covenant to do so. Where a landlord takes the benefit of a...
Leasehold Reform Act 1967 (LRA 1967) and Leasehold Reform, Housing and Urban Development Act 1993 (LRHUDA 1993) gave long leasehold tenants an individual and collective...
When selling a freehold property, sellers may wish to create positive covenants for future owners to perform. Problems may arise with the enforcement of positive...
The commonhold association is a private company (limited by guarantee) incorporated under the Companies Act 1985. The unit-holders are the only permitted members of the...
The Regulator of Social Housing Social housing is regulated under Part 2 of the Housing and Regeneration Act 2008 (HRA 2008). Until 1 October 2018, under HRA 2008, s 92A,...
When reviewing a lease within a moderately small residential flat scheme which consists of a principal building containing the flats and some communal external areas or...
Scheme outline This is the most straightforward residential flat scheme to establish. However, developers do not typically hold and manage rented property, so even though...
Where a developer has reserved only a nominal ground rent under the flat leases and also has no wish to manage the development once all the flat leases have been granted,...
One of the most common management schemes adopted by developers of residential flats is for the developer to retain the reversionary interest but to contract out the...
What is a concurrent lease? In the context of residential flat schemes, a concurrent lease is a lease of the reversion that is granted by a developer to a management...
Inadequate insurance or service charge provisions A landlord of a flat lease may covenant to insure or provide other services 'subject to and conditional...
When do the consultation requirements apply? A landlord must consult with its tenants before: • undertaking qualifying works (defined in section 20ZA of the Landlord and...
Statute limits the amount that may be recovered from tenants of dwellings by way either of service or administration charges. In both cases the landlord may recover no...