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Free Help and Advice
Advicenow
Useful independent website offering information, contacts and advice on
legal issues, including leasehold matters.
www.advicenow.org.uk Brighton
Leaseholders' Association
Long-standing
leasehold advice organisation. Runs drop-in sessions.
www.leaseadvice.org 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 Community
Group
Informative site about community groups, and what they can achieve.
www.communitygroup.co.uk Digital
UK
Organisation
responsible for leading the switchover from analogue to digital TV. Provides free
advice.
www.digitaluk.co.uk Environmental
Law Association
Offers
free advice on environmental issues, including noise problems.
www.environmentlaw.org.uk Flatsforum
Free forum to ask questions and exchange information about flats. Run
by News on the Block magazine
www.flatsforum.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 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
Leasehold
Life
Fascinating, highly informative and very useful website written by
an amazing leaseholder to help other leaseholders.
www.leasholdlife.info
Residents
Associations in the UK
Useful information, help and guidance site for
residents' associations. Membership also available.
www.residentsassociations.co.uk
Managing
Agents
BW
Residential Property Consultancy
Hands-on property management company
offering a bespoke service.
www.berniewales.co.uk
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
piibrokers
For Directors and Officers Insurance/Public Liability Insurance. Online comparative
quotation system, specific for RAs.
www.piibrokers.co.uk Residentsline
Residentsline provides insurance and associated services to managers of Residential
Properties. Useful, informative website.
www.residentsline.co.uk
Magazines
and journals
News on the Block
Monthly magazine for the
apartment sector.
www.newsontheblock.com
New
Law Journal
Leading legal journal whose coverage includes leasehold.
www.newlawjournal.co.uk
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
urban
green CHARTERED SURVEYORS
Dedicated team of building consultants, offering
a bespoke service tailored to clients' specific requirements.
www.urbangreenllp.co.uk
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Organisations
Association of Residential Managing Agents (ARMA)
The professional
trade body for managing agents. Has a code of practice for its members.
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
Leasehold
Rights
Advice and help organisation for leaseholders, based
in Hove.
www.leaseholdrights.co.uk
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
Events
and Marketing Companies
Manage
Your Block produces marketing events for the residential leasehold sector.
www.manageyourblock.net
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