Property Surveys It’s estimated that on average only 20% of all purchasers commission a professional survey. This is somewhat surprising considering that buying a property is probably the biggest purchase in most people’s lives. One explanation for this low take … Continue reading →

A Leasehold Valuation tribunal could not take account of a lessee’s financial hardship when determining the reasonableness of service charges. However, regard should be had to the obvious financial impact on leaseholders of an abonormally high service charge bill for … Continue reading →

A County Court in assessing the reasonableness of leasehold service charges, elected to to transfer specified issues to the Leasehold Valuation Tribunal under schdedule 12 of the Commonhold and Leasehold Reform Act 2002, it was not open to the Tribunal … Continue reading →