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For Leaseholders

Understand your rights as a leaseholder, challenge service charges, extend your lease, and exercise the right to manage.

Reviewed 2025-04-01

Common Problems

Service charge dispute

Lease extension — how to do it

Right to manage your building

Building safety remediation

Challenging a service charge

Cladding and building safety issues

Your Rights

Your Rights as a Leaseholder

Enfranchisement, right to manage, service charge challenges, and lease extension rights for leaseholders in England & Wales.

Your Rights as a Leaseholder (Overview)

A brief overview of core leaseholder rights in England & Wales. For the full guide, see Your Rights as a Leaseholder.

Your Rights as a Homeowner

Know your rights regarding planning, boundaries, party walls, covenants, and neighbour disputes.

Key Legal Topics

Property Law

Land law, conveyancing, leases, mortgages, and intellectual property rights.

Landlord & Tenant Law

The law governing residential and commercial tenancies, including tenant protections, possession proceedings, and deposit rules.

Building Safety & Fire Safety Law

Post-Grenfell reforms, Building Safety Act 2022, cladding remediation, and the Building Safety Regulator.

Useful Guides

Bringing a Leasehold Enfranchisement Claim

How leaseholders can collectively buy the freehold of their building or individually extend their lease.

Property

Exercising Your Right to Manage

How leaseholders in a qualifying flat can take over the management of their building from the freeholder without having to prove fault or pay compensation.

Property Law

Building Safety Remediation for Leaseholders

How leaseholders in buildings with fire safety defects can access remediation and protections under the Building Safety Act 2022.

Construction Law

Making a Housing Disrepair Claim

How tenants can pursue landlords who fail to maintain rental properties, including legal remedies and procedures.

Housing Law

Letter Templates

Challenge to Unreasonable Service Charges

Formal letter from a leaseholder to a landlord or management company challenging service charges as unreasonable under the Landlord and Tenant Act 1985.

Legal Tools & Calculators

Housing Notice Validity Checker

Check whether a Section 21 or Section 8 notice served on you in England is legally valid, based on the current requirements under the Housing Act 1988 and associated regulations.

Common Scenarios

My Service Charges Are Excessive — Can I Challenge Them?

Leaseholders who believe their service charges are excessive, unreasonably incurred, or relate to work of poor quality can apply to the First-tier Tribunal (Property Chamber) to determine what is payable.

Property

When to Get Legal Advice

Lease extension and enfranchisement claims involve strict statutory procedures and valuation disputes that require specialist advice from a solicitor and surveyor. If you are in a building with unsafe cladding or fire safety defects, a solicitor experienced in building safety law can advise on remediation funding and your rights under the Building Safety Act 2022. Service charge disputes can be resolved at the First-tier Tribunal (Property Chamber) — a solicitor is not always required.