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Enfranchisement and Right To Manage Awards 2012 - Finalists Announced!

Enfranchisement and Right To Manage Awards 2012 - Finalists Announced!

The Enfranchisement and Right to Manage Awards 2012 (the ERMAs) recognises the excellence and professionalism of all specialists working in this industry both at an individual and company level. Find out who has made the list of finalists.

Friday, 11th May 2012 Read more
 

Issue 59 Out Now!

Issue 59 Out Now!

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Thursday, 22nd March 2012 Read more
 

National design  competition for Retirement Flats Announces Winners

Five design students from across the country are celebrating having been selected winners in the first Peverel Retirement Design Competition, ‘Future Ageing’. Students were invited to conceptualise what they thought the independent living retirement development of the future would look like.

Wednesday, 2nd May 2012 Read more
 

Flat owners Ignored as Clamping Ban Becomes Law

 

The Government has introduced into law an outright ban on clamping cars on private land. The legislation has been passed in the new Protection of Freedom Act.  
 
Thursday, 10th May 2012 Read more
 

Fire Safety Training Offered to Flat Owners

Consort Property Management, has launched a series of fire safety events at its Plough Lane development in Wimbledon.

Wednesday, 2nd May 2012 Read more
 

Government Minister warns: “People who buy leasehold properties need to be very careful”

If you are a flat owner wondering why your service charges are too high, the service from your managing agent is lacking, or why you are in despair at what you can do about it, now you know.  It’s your own fault.  

Wednesday, 2nd May 2012 Read more
 

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Enfranchisement and Right To Manage Awards 2012 - Finalists Announced!

Enfranchisement and Right To Manage Awards 2012 - Finalists Announced!

The Enfranchisement and Right to Manage Awards 2012 (the ERMAs) recognises the excellence and professionalism of all specialists working in this industry both at an individual and company level. Find out who has made the list of finalists.

Friday, 11th May 2012 Read more
 

Enfranchisement and Right To Manage Awards 2012

Enfranchisement and Right To Manage Awards 2012

The Enfranchisement and Right to Manage Awards 2012 (the ERMAs) recognises the excellence and professionalism of all specialists working in this industry both at an individual and company level. Book your tickets for this years event here.

Tuesday, 7th February 2012 Read more
 

Issue 59 Out Now!

Issue 59 Out Now!

Subscribers, log in to view your digitial copy.

Thursday, 22nd March 2012 Read more
 

Major Works Feature 2012 

Major Works Feature 2012 

Your essential guide to major works. Some of this features articles include:

  • Considering your major works project 
  • Major works restore block to art deco elegance 
  • Where next for Frognal Court?
Thursday, 22nd March 2012 Read more
 

Where next for frognal court?

Where next for frognal court?

If there was ever a sorry tale of how property can go bad when leaseholders and a freeholder fall apart, Frognal Court is it. For 40 years the buildings have gradually drifted into deterioration and no one has benefited.

Wednesday, 21st March 2012 Read more
 

Lease extensions under head-leases

The existence of a head-lease in relation to a residential block of flats has considerable significance in a claim for a lease extension.

Wednesday, 21st March 2012 Read more
 

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Enfranchisement and Right To Manage Awards 2012 - Finalists Announced!

The Enfranchisement and Right to Manage Awards 2012 (the ERMAs) recognises the excellence and professionalism of all specialists working in this industry both at an individual and company level. Find out who has made the list of finalists.

Enfranchisement and Right To Manage Awards 2012

The Enfranchisement and Right to Manage Awards 2012 (the ERMAs) recognises the excellence and professionalism of all specialists working in this industry both at an individual and company level. Book your tickets for this years event here.

Engage Annual Conference

The Engage 5th Annual conference will take place at the BT Convention Centre, Kings Dock Liverpool Waterfront on 26th May 2012. A conference for all residents in the City Centre and Waterfront. 

 

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Insurance Feature 2012 -

 

Your essential guide to block insurance.  Some of this features articles include: 

 

  • Getting the best from your insurance broker 
  • How to deal with claims effectively 
  • 8 ways to spot under insurance in your blocks of flats 

Enfranchisement Feature 2012 - £0.00

 

Your essential guide to buying your freehold or extending your lease. Some of the articles in this feature include:

  • Alex Greenslade explains why now is the time to check the length of your lease 
  • Yashmin Mistry considers whether preliminary investigations are worthwhile in enfranchisement cases 
  • Should I be offered the right to buy the freehold of my building?

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