Leasehold: Service Charges

(asked on 24th February 2022) - View Source

Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, if he will bring forward legislative proposals on leasehold reform to introduce rights for freehold home owners to seek redress at a First-Tier Tribunal should they consider estate or management fees to be (a) excessive or (b) not representing value for money.


Answered by
Eddie Hughes Portrait
Eddie Hughes
This question was answered on 3rd March 2022

The Government is committed to promoting fairness and transparency for homeowners and ensuring that consumers are protected from abuse and poor service. Where people pay estate rent charges it is not appropriate that these homeowners have limited rights to challenge these costs.

We will therefore give freeholders on private and mixed tenure estates equivalent rights to leaseholders to challenge the reasonableness of estate rentcharges, as well as a right to apply to the First-tier Tribunal to appoint a new manager to manage the provision of services. We will translate these measures into law when parliamentary time allows.

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