Commercial Leasehold Disputes

Advice for Freeholders

Our team of expert property solicitors provide advice on the rights and obligations of freeholders, such as:

• Securing payment from leaseholders for major works improvement under the terms of the lease
• Consultation requirements required from freeholders before carrying out major building work
• Recovery of service charges owed
• Resolving lease disputes
• Presenting your case to the First-tier Tribunal (Property Chamber) or Court.

By obtaining early legal advice, we can help you to prepare a strategy on how to engage with the other parties to your lease in order to place you in a position of strength ahead of a dispute. Should matters become contentious, then we can often resolve your dispute by providing legal clarity. If you need to take further legal action, our team can provide all the experience you need to settle your dispute in the courts and tribunals or fight your corner at trial in order to maximise your chances of success.

Advice for Leaseholders

Our friendly and approachable solicitors have a vast amount of experience helping leaseholders in a number of ways:

• Challenging excessive or unreasonable service charges, particularly for major works
• Making sure the correct procedure for leaseholder consultation has been followed before levying charges for major works
• Disputing the need to carry out works
• Ensuring works are carried out properly
• Obtaining management rights or buying your freehold. Known as “enfranchisement” or “Right to Manage”
• Obtaining consents
• Challenging changes to your lease
• Challenging the freeholders failure to carry out repairs
• Making sure the lease contains power for the freeholder to recover the heads of expenditure from you
• Presenting your case to the First-tier Tribunal (Property Chamber) or court