Leasehold
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Service Charges and the 18-Month Rule: When Are Costs Incurred?
Originally published 12 May 2013. Updated 13 October 2026. A service-charge bill arriving years after work was done is not automatically too late to recover. The crucial question under Section 20B of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1985 is when the relevant costs were incurred, together with whether a demand or qualifying written notification was…
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Will leasehold conveyancing be impacted by the Peverel collapse ?
The holding companies behind Britain’s biggest property manager – which maintains 190,000 homes, including most McCarthy & Stone retirement properties could impact conveyancing for the following reasons: 1) If redundancies are to be made, obtaining management information could become very difficult. In recent years it can take weeks to obtain crucial management information from Peverel.…