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Welcome
to the Federation of Private Residents' Associations
We
are a not-for-profit advice, support and lobbying organisation for private residential
leaseholders, tenants' and residents' associations, and residential management
companies.
We are the national voice of residents' associations and are frequently
consulted by government.
Our advisory services are free to members, who pay
an annual subscription fee.
The
FPRA offers a free block website to its members in association with News on
the Block. 
The
FPRA encourages leaseholders to set up residents' associations and publishes
a guide on how to do it.
The FPRA offers its members specialist
legal, insurance, management, and building guidance.
The FPRA
represents and understands the interests of both tenants' associations and resident
management companies.
The FPRA keeps its members informed about
current issues and events affecting leaseholders.
The FPRA publishes
a quarterly 12 page newsletter for its members (a
sample copy of the Newsletter can be purchased for £3.50 inc. p&p)
The FPRA publishes information guides and booklets, which are available
to non-members.
The FPRA is a vital information resource for leaseholders,
with articles, news, newsletters and article index, forms to download, and a discussion
forum.
So
if you ... are a leaseholder in a block of flats, have problems with your
freeholder, need to form a residents' association, part-own the freehold and/
or manage your own block.
Read
what Property People says about the FPRA
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to members: free websites for your block are now available. Go to the Members
Area for details.
Posted 30/07/10 |
Accounting
Regulations and Commonhold reform abandoned by Coalition Government The
FPRA understands from the Department of Communities and Local Government (DCLG)
that it will not be implementing regulations requiring service charge accounts
to be held in designated accounts, and for certain accounting information to be
provided with service charge invoices.
These provisions
were included in the 2002 Commonhold and Leasehold Reform Act, but not yet iimplemented.
The Coalition government has abandoned them on the grounds that they will be an
unwanted bureacratic burden on businesses.
The Ministry of Justice has
informed the FPRA that it has no plans to change Commonhold legislation, while
adding that subject to priorities and resources it will consider proposals for
change.
A further signal that the Coalition has turned its back on Commonhold
is their withdrawal of funding from LEASE to provide advice on Commonhold. See
LEASE's press
release for more information.
Posted 5/08/10 
New
Government Shelves Plans to Regulate Agents Grant Shapps,
the new Housing Minister, has scrapped the previous government's plans to regulate
the private rented sector. Unfortunately for leaseholders and reputable managing
agents, this appears to include scrapping plans to regulate agents which manage
blocks of flats and their service charge funds. Shapps believes that the powers
already held by local councils are sufficient to deal with renegade agents.
See
Department of Communities and Local Government (DCLG) press
release.
Posted 11/06/10
United
You Stand (by forming a Tenants' Association) say LEASE The
Leasehold Advisory Service (LEASE) has issued a press release high-lighting the
strategic benefits to leaseholders of forming a Recognised Tenants' Association
when dealing with freeholders. LEASE says the benefits include a single point
of contact with the freeholder and legal advantages.
LEASE points to the
FPRA's handbook on setting up Tenants' Associations as perhaps the most detailed
account of how to do it. Click
here for LEASE's press release.
Posted 26/05/10
HIPS
last stand
The much derided Home Information
Packs (HIPs) have been suspended from 21 May 2010. Homes marketed after this date
will not require a HIP.
Posted 26/05/10
FPRA
legal advisor Yashmin Mistry wins two awards
Many FPRA members
will have had their questions answered by Yashmin Mistry, of solicitors Brethertons.
Her outstanding skills as a legal specialist in leasehold were recognised when
she won two awards at the Enfranchisement and Right to Manage Awards, organised
by News on the Block. Yashmin won Young Professional of the
Year Award and Individual Solicitor of the Year Award. The winners were announced
at a special event held at Lords Cricket Ground on 12 May 2010. More
details here
about the event and other winners.
Posted 14/05/10
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General inquries
Email - info@fpra.org.uk
Phone - 0871 200 3324
Post - The Federation of Private
Residents' Associations, PO Box 10271, Epping, CM16 9DB Website
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Read
FPRA Chairman Bob Smytherman's comments on the Coalition
government's stance on leasehold and Commonhold in Flat
Living Magazine. Go
to page 18
Posted 25/08/10
Follow
the FPRA on
309
Questions Answered in Past Year
The FPRA's team
of leasehold consultants answered 309 questions from members in the last 12 months.
The questions, many complex, covered all aspects of leasehold and block management,
from pets to parking, sub-letting to service charges, and lifts to leases.
"Many
thanks for a prompt, helpful and cogent response. Well done, FPRA!" said
one member.
Posted 30/5/10
Digital
UK has published its annual report for the year to 31 March 2010. With digital
television switchover completed successfully in five out of 15 regions, DigitalUK
reports that the programme is running on time and significantly under budget.
The report can be seen on DigitalUK's website
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Marketing
and Conference Events planned for 2011
A company called
Manage
Your Block is to produce two marketing and seminar events in
2011 in London and Manchester for people who run their blocks, and companies that
offer services to them. The FPRA is delighted
to be associated with the events. FPRA members can find out more about this in
the Members Area.
Posted 26/05/10
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