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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
Digital
UK
Organisation
responsible for leading the switchover from analogue to digital TV. Provides
free advice.
www.digitaluk.co.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
Flat
Chat
Chat site for residents of blocks of flats, including free forums
for individual blocks.
www.flat-chat.co.uk
Flat-living.co.uk
A
site designed to provide information, advice, products and services for
residents of flats and apartments.
www.flat-living.co.uk
Environmental
Law Association
Offers
free advice on environmental issues, including noise problems.
www.environmentlaw.org.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
NRB
Dedicated block management professionals in S.Essex/Herts., and East and
North London.
020 8524 9900
nrb@nrb-surveyors.com
Insurance Services
Deacon
Specialist insurance provider for leasehold buildings/blocks of
flats.
www.deacon.co.uk
Bluefin
Tailor-made insurance solutions for Tenants and Residents Associations,
with a fast online service.
www.flatprotect.co.uk
Kay
International plc
Block insurance provider. Contact Neil Cook, UK Department
0208 8850 9697
www.kayint.co.uk
Residentsline
Residentsline provides insurance and associated services to managers of
Residential Properties. Useful, informative website.
www.residentsline.co.uk
Magazines
News on the Block
Monthly magazine for the apartment sector.
www.newsontheblock.com
Property
Services
Anglian
Building Products
Specialist installer of PVCu windows to blocks of flats.
www.anglian-building.co.uk
Scott
Woods - SW Building Services
Registered
electrician. Work undertaken for RAs, RMCs, managing agents.
07779 638 477
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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
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. Published an excellent guide to
running a flat management company, but currently out of print.
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)
A campaign organisation dedicated to ending the freehold system of property
ownership.
www.carl.org.uk
Campaign
Against Retirement Leasehold Exploitation (CARLEX)
A self-help group campaigning against over-charing and exploitation in
retirement leasehold homes
www.carlex.org.uk
Gas Safety
Register
Check
that your gas engineer is registered. The Gas Safety Register replaced
CORGI on 1 April 2009
www.gassaferegister.co.uk
Digital
TV
Sky
Sky TV offers deals to prepare blocks of flats for the digital TV switchover.
www.sky.com/flats
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