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Dementia making you feel isolated?
Dementia has been described as the scourge of our age and it seems clear part of the reason for this is the longer years we are now living. Another reason is, we now take mental health more seriously and take the time and care to identify the various forms of mental health. Dementia includes alzheimers,…
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Event Fee Disclosure Documents
Events fees is the name given by the Law Commission for those transfer, exit or contingency fees which are charged by some Landlords in the lease and are not always clear before a potential buyers commits to the purchase. The Law Commission is recommending that when a property is sold off plan the interested…
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Whatever it’s called ~ it must be transparent.
Exit fees – Transfer fees – Contingency fees – Event fees These are all the names by which fees are levied in some retirement property leases and compel leaseholders to pay a fee for a variety of what the law commission is calling ‘events’ and which although lawful, have caused consternation and concern. This is because…
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Leasehold Houses
The issue of selling houses as leasehold was raised to the Prime Minister who replied. “we will act to promote fairness for the growing number of leaseholders, but we will consult on a range of measures to tackle unfair and unreasonable abuses of leasehold, as the Housing Minister has said. Other than in certain…
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Private Renters on notice
From the 6 April 2017 the government has now confirmed that landlords can be issued with new civil penalty notices for housing breaches. Local authorities can implement fines of up to £30 000 for a range of offences, under the Housing Act 2004 including failing to comply with an improvement notice served by the council…
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Protecting Leasehold Money
CMP is client money protection and it is a scheme which protects the money which leasehold residents pay into an account for the purpose of paying the services which are provided for the maintenance and upkeep of the building they live in. It is estimated that hundreds of millions of pounds of this money…
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Help for the Leaseholder in dispute
In residential property management, it is not always that legislation is drawn up for the benefit of the leaseholder. But this has been done with new powers to the First Tier Tribunal regarding legal costs. For many years since the Leasehold and Tenant Act of 1985 the tribunal, then known as the Leasehold Valuation…
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Happy Easter to all our friends
We wish all our friends and future friends a happy and peaceful Eastertide. However you celebrate this time, we wish a wonderful weekend for you and those you love.
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CMP to become mandatory?
On 27th March recommendations from the ongoing consultation on compulsory client money protection was put forward to the Government. The working group consulting the stakeholders to gather opinions, strongly urged the Government to make CMP obligatory for all lettings and management agents to practice. 85% of respondents agreed that compulsory CMP would raise standards throughout…
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A challenge to Right to Manage obstructions
As those who have been through the process know, right to manage has certain requirements which can make the process tedious, frustrating and delayed. In the case of Elim Court in Plymouth, it was only after 3 attempts that the residents of Elim got their go ahead for right to manage. There were 3…
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