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Strategic property consultancy Cluttons have looked at new challenges the Prime Central London property market faces in 2021/22, with issues such as Brexit and the immediate impacts of the global pandemic – but also longer-term problems like changing lifestyle preferences and climate change. With these in mind, Cluttons have identified the market trends that these problems are likely to create in the near future.    The market cycle trend has not been kind to Prime Central London in recent years, with Hou

Jodie Fraser, founder of Fraser Allen Estate Management, is celebrating Small Business Saturday 2021 by working with solicitor Andrew Turner to help people with any queries they have around property management and property law. Jodie was named as one of the nation’s Small Biz 100 in a national 2020 campaign highlighting some of the UK’s most inspiring small businesses. This annual campaign always culminates on Small Business Saturday. However the lockdown means her plans to celebrate her success were put

In our last “commonhold versus leasehold” article, we explored day-to-day management comparisons. As the COP26 climate change conference approaches, it was only fitting to look “commonhold versus leasehold” in the context of climate change. Previously, many snubbed climate change as a “fad”, but with a delegate list including world leaders past and present and Royalty, and with noticeably bizarre weather over the last two years, it is an issue that can no longer be ignored. How does the environment impact

The developments include eight apartments at Mallory House in Sutton, nine apartments at 50 Croham Road in Croydon, and another nine apartments at 20 St Andrews Court in Earlsfield. Principle has been instructed to look after all three properties by Pier Management Ltd, the management arm of RG Capital Partners Ltd, as the latest in a series of recent contracts with the company. Ahead of the new commissions, Principle assisted all the individual developers on the three sites ahead of the freehold sales, w

This year the NOTB Awards are supporting MIND and Macmillan Cancer Support as the judges' chosen charities.  The judges give a lot of their time to help judge and score the entries, as well as supporting and attending the awards.  Please give generously to support their chosen charities this year.  As a thank you from NOTB, anyone that donates via our Just Giving pages below will be entered into a prize draw, with the winners being announced at the awards ceremony at Old Billingsgate on 30th November 2021

The scheme, designed by Birmingham firm K4 Architects Ltd, will include the restoration of the existing, locally-listed, Gunsmith House, and provide 46 one bedroom, 38 two bedroom and 1 three bedroom apartments in total. Gunsmith House will contain three apartments with 1, 2 and 3 bedrooms and alongside its restoration, Elevate is building three linked blocks of four and five storeys. David Hofton, Elevate’s sales and marketing director, said: “Within this new gated community, particular attention has bee

QUESTION I wanted to ask when making an application for the appointment of a manager (and any other application to the Tribunal) would I be expected to send copies of all documents to all other leaseholders in my block (40 Flats). If I had to do that I could not afford it. Someone has told me in the past that I would have to do this and I would be the only applicant.  ANSWER Many thanks for your enquiry which follows on from the recent webinar focusing on the appointment of a manager by the tribunal pursu

Property management firm Common Ground has strengthened its campaign for leaseholders’ rights by attaining accreditation from the campaigning charity the Leasehold Knowledge Partnership (LKP). Managing director Alan Draper sees the association with LKP as a way of further strengthening the company’s commitment to providing fairness and transparency for its customers. LKP is dedicated to advising leaseholders on the perils and pitfalls of the leasehold system, showing them how to succeed against corpora

The Healthy by Design Building Institute (HDBI) has awarded Navana Property Group IMMUNE Building Standard™ certification for One Palace Place, a luxury apartment building managed by the company in central London.  It is the first time that a residential asset has achieved certification. The standard was launched in 2020 by developer Genesis Property, a leading member of the European Property Federation, to combat the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic through better design and management of buildings, su

Following the introduction of the Tenant Fees Act 2019 in England, which states that tenants cannot be charged for all up-front letting fees or extra security deposits for pets, many landlords are unsurprisingly nervous of accepting pets into a property, mostly due to excessive wear and tear, increased likelihood of poor cleanliness and a greater chance of damage.   No Letting Go claims that including a tightly written pet clause in the tenancy agreement - which includes specifics such as what types of pe

Barristers, solicitors and valuers attended the Association of Leasehold Enfranchisement Practitioners’ (ALEP) Annual Conference, which returned with a fully virtual format for the second year running.  The four-day conference featured a number of different online seminars, talks and panel sessions all aimed at tackling issues impacting the leasehold enfranchisement sector.   Leasehold issues have continued to generate headlines throughout 2021, including the recent decision by a number of leading h

A delay to tax reforms which would have seen sole traders and small businesses obliged to keep digital records and report income quarterly to HMRC has been welcomed by financial experts. The government had wanted to make the radical changes affecting 4.3m self-employed people, small businesses and landlords with an income of more than £10,000 come into effect from April 2023. Now it has been pushed back to April 2024. Officials said they recognised the pressure businesses were under as they emerged from t