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Extending Your Lease on a Residential Flat or Apartment

All flats and apartments in England and Wales are leasehold, usually on leases that were initially for 99 years or longer. Unlike freehold properties, where the owner has outright ownership of both the building and the land it stands on, leasehold ownership is essent...

Read    22/05/2024

Right To Manage – Land Mark Decision - Estate Areas

Since its introduction by the Commonhold and Leasehold Reform Act 2002, many leaseholders have acquired the right to manage their block. By acquiring the right to manage, leaseholders get the right to perform the “management functions” in place either of the landlord...

Read    08/02/2022

Why the Settlers Court case is one to watch for RTM leaseholders

Why the Settlers Court case is one to watch for RTM leaseholdersIf you are a leaseholder in a block that has acquired the right to manage and live on a multi-building development, an appeal case heard in the Supreme Court in November could be important for you and yo...

Read    09/12/2021

Is RTM right for your block?

Ringley is in the news today with an exciting announcement – we are thrilled to now be working with the UK’s biggest Right to Manage company, which will pay to use our operating systems as a franchisee client. We have designed and built our own in-house operating sy...

Read    21/06/2021

Don't wait for reforms to extend your lease - act now!

In January, the Government announced that it will be making fundamental changes to leasehold that will have an impact on flat owners going forward. See our previous blog for details. These changes will be rubber stamped by legislation that is to be brought forward du...

Read    10/02/2021

Leasehold reform - more questions than answers?

Having had some time to digest yesterday’s news on leasehold reform, there is no doubt that the announcement raises a number of difficult questions which will only be answered as the changes play out.We firmly believe that government paying attention to the problems ...

Read    08/01/2021

Leasehold reform part 1 - at last!

We could all do with some good news at the moment - and here it is. The Government has just announced that millions of leaseholders around the country are to be given a new right to extend their lease by 990 years at zero ground rent.Housing secretary Robert Jenrick ...

Read    07/01/2021

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