The LEASE advice guides provide detailed advice on the core issues that affect leasehold property. They are written, and regularly reviewed, by our team of professional legal advisers.
Please remember that these are guides only, and are not a substitute for personal legal advice.
Alternative Dispute Resolution - Mediation, Arbitration and Adjudication
Read More Introduction to forms of dispute resolution such as mediation, arbitration and adjudication.
Application to the First-tier Tribunal (Property Chamber)
Read More Outline of applying to the Tribunal under its various jurisdictions, save for valuation applications.
Application to the Leasehold Valuation Tribunal - Wales
Read More Outline of applying to the Leasehold Valuation Tribunal, save for valuation applications.
Appointing a Managing Agent - The need, selection and working with them
Read More A guide to assist those looking for a managing agent.
Appointment of a Surveyor, Management Audits
Read More Leaseholders' rights to management information under 1993 and 1996 Act, covering the right for a tenant's association to appoint a surveyor and carry out a management audit
Collective Enfranchisement - Getting Started
Read More Outlining the qualification criteria and procedure in relation to collective enfranchisement (buying the freehold) of a residential leasehold building (flats)
Collective Enfranchisement - Valuation
Read More An outline of the valuation principles to determine the price for acquiring the freehold of a building containing flats under the Leasehold Reform Housing and Urban Development Act 1993.
Lease Extension - Getting Started
Read More An outline of the right to extend the lease of a flat under the Leasehold Reform Housing and Urban Development Act 1993.
Leasehold Houses - Valuation for enfranchisement
Read More How much does it cost to buy the freehold of a leasehold house? This guide outlines the valuation principles for enfranchising a leasehold house
Leasehold Houses – Buying the freehold – Qualification and procedure
Read More For buying the freehold of leasehold houses.
Leasehold Retirement Housing
Read More A guide to leasehold in the retirement sector.
Living in Leasehold Flats - A guide to how it works
Read More An explanation of the nature and typical rights and obligations that relate to the ownership of a leasehold flat.
Participation Agreements
Read More Formalising participation in an action for collective enfranchisement.
Right of First Refusal
Read More Outline of the right of pre-emption given to qualifying tenants when their immediate landlord is disposing of his interest.
Right to Manage
Read More Outline of the right for leaseholders of a building containing flats to take over the management of the building.
Section 20 Consultation for Council and other public sector landlords
Read More Outline guide to consultation for qualifying works to a building and qualifying long term agreements highlighting the obligations of public sector landlords.
Section 20 Consultation for Private Landlords, Resident Management Companies and their Agents
Read More Outline guide to consultation for qualifying works to a building and qualifying long term agreements.
Security of tenure when the lease runs out
Read More Rights that a leaseholder has when their lease expires.
Service charges and other issues
Read More A guide to service charges, administration charges, ground rent, recognised tenants associations and forfeiture.
Shared Ownership Leases
Read More Explains what shared ownership leasehold is and how it works.
Summaries of rights and obligations - Administration Charges - England
Read More A note on the information that must accompany a demand for administration charges.
Summaries of rights and obligations - Service Charges - England
Read More A note on the information that must accompany a service charge demand.
