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When is an insurance report not an insurance report?

When is an insurance report not an insurance report? Answer: when it’s a LOLER. It’s not the kind of riveting question that will get you g...

Courts & Case Law

Landlord’s management fee immune from reasonableness challenge by flat owners as a service charge

Flat owners may often wish to challenge the reasonableness of the their landlord’s management fee. Sometimes this fee will be based on the passi...

Questions & Answers

Q&A - Can we buy the freehold?

QUESTION I would like to ask if it is possible for a small block of 6 flats under the umbrella of 30 flat, to buy the freehold of a block separately...

Residents committees

Residents’ Associations – why every location should have one

Over the past 8 years, in my position as the Estate Manager at a well-known retirement development in Chelsea, West London, I have long recognised the...

The Needle in the Haystack

As a block management recruitment agency, we have to develop key listening skills for the people seeking our help. Candidates spend time getting to kn...

Principle wins huge contract to look after London, West Midlands and south England properties

Principle Estate Management has been appointed to look after hundreds of apartments in London, the West Midlands and south England. The ma...

Courts & Case Law

Are you being served?

A recent Supreme Court decision has the potential to have wide-reaching consequences for property owners.

Recently launched property management company

LevelUP is a new property management company recently launched and looking to take the industry by storm in 2019. Quoted on Property TV as one of the...

Just how Common is Commonhold?

Most people are aware of freehold and leasehold tenures and how they work in principle. But commonhold, on the other hand, is a tenure that is n...

Another Property Management company?

When a new property management company launches, the overall response it is met with is “Another one? Why?”. Closely followed, by the seco...

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