Q.Can I put wooden floors in my apartment?

Ive been hearing a lot in the news recently about something called commonhold – what is it?

I've been asked to become a Director of the residents management company for my block, but I’m not sure what the implications of this are. Can you help?

Q: We have recently purchased the freehold in our block. Where can we find more information about the management and running of a block?

Long gone are the days when landlords resisted the very idea of enfranchisement and the Duke of Westminster took a complaint to the European Court of Human Rights.

In this article, Yashmin Mistry, solicitor in the Property Management/Enfranchisement Department of Brethertons LLP, explains how the Arbib case is likely to impact on enfranchisement claims.

You have agreement all round to major works on the building. Now all you have to do is find contractors and ensure that, in line with your Section 20 obligations, their estimates for the work will not meet with any objections from leaseholders.

Flat-owners should be thinking now about the implications of Home Information Packs (or the ‘seller’s pack’, as they used to be known).

I am sitting on a plane in New York waiting to disembark on the 10th August. You may recall this is the day after 20 people wanting to blow up planes to the States were arrested on terrorist charges.

Over the last twenty years, the private residential retirement housing market has steadily developed, as more people have realised the benefits of this type of accommodation and due to an increasingly ageing population.

In recent years, the jurisdictions of the Government-sponsored Residential Property Tribunal Service (RPTS) have expanded dramatically.

In a complex piece of government regulation, thousands of homes converted into self-contained flats could become unmanageable and open up lessees to fines of up to £20,000 from October 2006.

The Housing Ombudsman Service was set up under the provisions of the 1996 Housing Act to deal with complaints and disputes involving member landlords.

The essential guide to owning a flat.  This book demystifies the complexities of owning a flat, and provides answers to common questions such as...

Anyone visiting the average property company or estate agency will find its management systems are controlled by a plethora of software applications, access databases and excel spreadsheets built by consultants, small IT providers or friends.  More often than not they contain additional functionality that they don’t necessarily need or that is duplicating what they already have which dramatically escalates costs.