Law for Leaseholder Landlords – with Robert Brown

Description

In this one day workshop Barrister, Robert Brown looks at the special areas of law which apply when a landlord of a short let is also a tenant himself under a long lease.

Topics covered include:

• Typical leasehold arrangements (freeholders, management companies, managing agents, etc)
• Leases and subletting
• Ground rent, service charges and administration charges – what are they?
• How to challenge service charges (and when you should),
• Repairing obligations – inside and outside the flat,
• Trouble with freeholder / managing agents
• Right to manage, management audit, etc,
• Enfranchisement (extending the lease and purchasing a share of the freehold)