Appointment of a manager
Eligibility criteria
To apply for "appointment of a manager", you need to be a long leaseholder. This means your lease must have been over 21 years when it was first granted.
The property must be the whole, or part of, a building containing 2 or more flats.
You cannot apply if the landlord is:
- the Crown
- a local authority or other public sector body
- a registered provider (housing association)
You also cannot apply if less than 50% of the flats in the building are on long leases and the landlord is resident on the premises and it is a converted, not purpose-built property, and they have been resident in the flat as their only or principal residence for at least 12 months.
If there are several blocks of flats on an estate, you can apply for a manager to be appointed for the whole estate provided at least one leaseholder from each block joins in the application to the tribunal.
Reasons for applying
You can apply if:
- the landlord is in breach of an obligation owed to you, under the terms of the lease, in the management of the building
- the landlord has demanded, or is likely to demand, unreasonable service charges
- the landlord has failed to comply with any relevant provision of an approved code of management practice (for example the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors’ Residential Management Code)
- unreasonable variable administration charges have been made, or are proposed or are likely to be made
- there are other circumstances that mean it is appropriate for an order to be made
- Last updated:
- 30 November 2023
- Next review:
- 12 December 2026
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