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Tribunal Appointed Manager

Apply to the First Tier Tribunal to appoint a Property Manager if your landlord fails management duties. Horizon assists in proving faults for smoother transitions.

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First Tier Tribunal Property Manager Appointment

Where a block’s landlord (freeholder) has management responsibilities or has the power to appoint a managing agent, it is possible for leaseholders to apply to the First Tier Tribunal for a Management Order under Section 24 of the Landlord & Tenants Act 1987 to remove the management function from the landlord.

The Criteria

The grounds for making an application to the First Tier Tribunal are;

  • The landlord is in breach of an obligation owed to the leaseholders, under the terms of the lease, in the management of a building
  • That the landlord has demanded, or is likely to demand, unreasonable service charges
  • The landlord has failed to comply with any relevant provision of a code of practice approved by the Secretary of State under section 87 of the Leasehold Reform, Housing & Urban Development Act 1993 (codes of management practice)
  • That unreasonable variable administration charges have been made, or are proposed or are likely to be made
  • That such other circumstances exist for it to be just and convenient for an Order to be made; and
  • That it is just and convenient for the Order to be made in all the circumstances.

This appointment is made under Section 24 of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1987. The application can be made by a single leaseholder in a building, or a group of leaseholders acting together.

Often it is preferable for leaseholders to claim ‘Right To Manage’ (RTM) for the building rather than requesting the Court to appoint a Property Manager because:

  • with RTM you do not need to prove that your current landlord is at fault
  • there is no burden on RTM to compile evidence
  • proceedings are generally quicker and less costly

However, leaseholders may need a Court-appointed Property Manager because:

  • they cannot get the required support a Right To Manage (at least 50%) claim
  • the landlord is obstructive and owns flats making RTM difficult to achieve

Exceptions

The right to apply for the appointment of a Property Manager is not available if the leasehold property is a single dwelling or if the landlord is the Crown, a local authority or other public sector body, a registered social landlord or other housing association or where the premises are provided for the purposes of a charitable housing trust or where less than 50% of the flats in the building are on long leases and the landlord is resident on the premises and it is a converted, not purpose-built property, and he has been resident in the flat as his only or principal residence for at least twelve months.

How can Horizon help?

Horizon have assisted in Property Manager applications at First Tier Tribunal and initially our role is usually to advise on the legal tests that First Tier Tribunal needs to be persuaded to consider a Property Manager to step into the shoes of the freeholder, fault on side of the landlord must be proven.

Horizon have been successfully appointed by First Tier Tribunal as a Property Manager and can work with specialist legal professionals to support First Tier Tribunal applications.

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