Setting up the right to manage
Registering the right to manage
The right to manage company can apply to the Land Registry for an entry to be made in the proprietorship register of the affected title (Rule 79A Land Registration Rules 2003).
This is helpful as it lets new buyers know that there is a right to manage company, so that they can join. It may also make it cheaper to buy the freehold through collective enfranchisement, if the leaseholders decide to do this in future.
You need to apply using form AP1, and provide evidence with the application to show that:
- the applicant is a right to manage company
- the right to manage is in relation to the premises comprised in the registered estate
- the registered proprietor of the registered estate is the landlord under a lease of the whole or part of the registered estate
- the right to manage the premises has been acquired, and remains exercisable, by the right to manage company
There is a fee of £50.
- Last updated:
- 16 December 2025
- Next review:
- 16 December 2027
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