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Free Help and Advice
Leasehold
Advisory Service
(LEASE)
Independent free advice agency funded by government grant and private
sector contributions. Many publications and leaflets. Essential site.
www.lease-advice.org.uk
Society
of Retired Leaseholders
Voluntary advice and information organisation for older and retired
people living in sheltered accomodation and retirement homes.
www.sorl.org.uk
Camden Mediation Service
If you are having trouble with neighbours and live in Camden, the Camden
Mediation Service may be able to help.
www.camdenmediation.org.uk
Advicenow
Useful independent website offering information, contacts and
advice on legal issues, including leasehold matters.
www.advicenow.org.uk
Community Group
Informative site about community groups, and what they can achieve.
www.communitygroup.co.uk
Managing
Agents
Colin Cohen Property Management
Managing agents of blocks of flats offering a personal yet professional
service.
Contact Colin Cohen: 0208 959 6870
HPML
Specialist managers of retirement leasehold properties. A subsidiary of
Hanover Housing Group.
01442 242419
NRB
Dedicated block management professionals in S.Essex/Herts., and East and
North London.
020 8524 9900
nrb@nrb-surveyors.com
JP Management
Professional and experienced property management, specialising in blocks
of flats in London.
Contact John Peartree: 01206 842233
www.jpmanagement.co.uk
info@jpmanagement.co.uk
Insurance Services
Deacon
Specialist insurance provider for leasehold buildings/blocks of
flats.
www.deacon.co.uk
Flat Protect
Tailor-made insurance solutions for Tenants and Residents Associations.
Obtain a quote in less than 15 seconds, and secure your cover online.
www.flatprotect.co.uk
Residentsline
Residentsline provides insurance and associated services to managers of
Residential Properties. Useful, informative website.
www.residentsline.co.uk
RMC Exclusive Insurance services
For buildings insurance, this company promises the best deal.
www.rmcexclusive.co.uk
Magazines
News on the Block
Monthly magazine for the apartment sector.
www.newsontheblock.com
Property
Services
Rose
Property Services
Specialists in cleaning and window cleaning to blocks of flats.
0208 561 8282
prop-serv@msn.com
Anglian Building Products
Specialist installer of PVCu windows to blocks of flats.
0870 428 0274
abp@anglian-windows.com
ISS
Provider of professional security guards to blocks of flats.
0870 382 1702
enquiries@issukoffice.com
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Professional
Organisations
Association of Residential Managing Agents (ARMA)
The professional body for managers of residential properties. Regulates
and sets standards for its members, and organises seminars and conferences
on block management.
www.arma.org.uk
Association of Retirement Housing Managers (ARHM)
Professional organisation setting standards for quality management of retirement
homes.
www.arhm.org
Royal
Institution of Chartered Surveyors
Extensive site. Key publications, such as Residential Management Code.
www.rics.org.uk
Solicitors, Accountants and Advisory Services
Alan Levene and Company
Chartered Certified Accountants and Registered Auditors providing
accountancy advice to leaseholders, resident management companies, and residents'
associations.
0208 505 4555
www.alanlevene.co.uk
A.W.&
C. Barsby
A 'legal information resource'. Publishes Protecting your Property,
a book covering a variety of legal issues including: leases and tenancies;
public health; rubbish; land-use; and animal trespass.
www.barsby.com
Brethertons Solicitors
Offers legal service empowering leaseholders to remedy inadequate block
management.
www.brethertons.co.uk
Buy
Your Freehold Ltd.
Provides a cost effective start-to-finish home enfranchisement service
for leaseholders in England.
www.buyyourfreehold.com
DMH Stallard
Law firm with experience of handling complex cases, including enfranchisement
and contentious landlord and tenant cases.
www.dmhstallard.com
Howard
Kennedy Solicitors
Offers comprehensive legal services for all leasehold matters,
and the buying and selling
of properties.
www.howardkennedy.com
Jordans
Provider of legal services for tenants/leaseholders, RTM/RTE company formations,
secretarial and accountancy services. Publishes an excellent guide to
running a flat management company.
www.jordans.co.uk
Laceys Solicitors
Lawyers specialising in leasehold and residents' association issues -
lease extensions, collective enfranchisement, right to manage, nuisance
claims
www.laceyssolicitors.co.uk
Leasehold Solutions
This company provides an integrated service in the management and
coordination of the extension of leases and the acquisition of freeholds
on behalf of flat owners in blocks of at least 12.
www.leaseholdsolutions.com
Robert Irving and Burns
Company providing help with a range of landlord and tenant matters,
valuations, management services, sales and lettings.
www.rib.co.uk
Rosetta Consulting
Offer advice to leaseholders that seeking to buy their freehold, and
to those that have already done so.
www.rosettaconsulting.com/leasehold
Pressure Groups
Campaign
for the Abolition of Residential Leasehold (CARL)
Informative site by organisation campaigning to end freehold system of
property ownership.
www.carl.org.uk
Residents' Associations
Castle Hill House
Well-designed website for residents of Castle Hill House, Gateshead.
Includes a history of the building and a discussion forum.
www.castlehillhouse.org.uk
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