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Note: the links on this page do not imply the endorsement or recommendation by the FPRA of the companies listed, or the services and products offered. The links are provided purely as a guide.

 
      
 

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

 

 Professional 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