Adam Rosenthal, Elizabeth Fitzgerald, Oliver Radley-Gardner, Nathanial Duckworth, Philip Sissons

Commercial and Residential Service Charges

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Produktbeschreibung

Commercial and Residential Service Charges is a new title covering this complex area of law for both residential and commercial property. This new title looks at the issues practitioners face when advising clients on service charge disputes including accountability for service charges, budgetary control and certification of actual costs incurred. Commercial and Residential Service Charges covers the following: History and Overview: What is a service charge; Leasehold and freehold charges (estate rent charges); Historical statutory background; General approach to construction; Codes of practice; Items for which charges can be made: Repairs, maintenance etc; Insurance; Managing agents; Staff; Legal fees; Reserve funds; Borrowing costs; Sweep up clauses; Marketing costs; Service charge Machinery: Interim and balancing payments (estimates); Conditions precedent (certifications and accounts); Conclusiveness of certificates; Reserve and sinking funds; Trusts; Proportions; Index-linked charges; Statutory Regulation: Residential Legislation (1985 Act, 2002 Act); General Legislation (UCTA and Consumer Regulations); Public Sector; Remedies: Forfeiture; Recovery of overpayment by tenants; Set off; Determinations by LVT: s.27A of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1985.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
• Seitenzahl: 652
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Mai 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 253mm x 164mm x 43mm
• Gewicht: 1193g
• ISBN-13: 9781847669858
• ISBN-10: 1847669859
• Artikelnr.: 35891561

Autorenporträt

Adam Rosenthal, Elizabeth Fitzgerald, Oliver Radley-Gardner, Nathanial Duckworth and Philip Sissons

Inhaltsangabe

PART I: INTRODUCTION: Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 The construction of service charge provisions
PART II: SERVICES: Chapter 3 The Services: Overview
Chapter 4 Maintenance and repairs
Chapter 5 Heating and lighting
Chapter 6 Cleaning and refuse collection
Chapter 7 Compliance with legislation
Chapter 8 The costs of management and managing agents
Chapter 9 Employment of caretakers/other staff
Chapter 10 Insurance
Chapter 11 Legal costs
Chapter 12 The cost of borrowing
Chapter 13 Marketing and promotion costs
PART III: SERVICE CHARGE MACHINERY: Chapter 14 Overview of machinery
Chapter 15 Types of management structure
Chapter 16 Common service structures
Chapter 17 Certification
Chapter 18 Consultation, estimation, information and consent requirements
Chapter 19 Accounts
Chapter 20 Demands
Chapter 21 Apportionment
Chapter 22 Sinking funds and reserve funds
Chapter 23 Problematic machinery
Chapter 24 Variation of service charge schemes
Chapter 25 Effect of destruction of premises
Chapter 26 Enforcement of service charges between freeholders
PART IV: STATUTORY REGULATION OF SERVICE CHARGES: Chapter 27 Introduction
Chapter 28 Application of the statutory regulations
Chapter 29 Substantive limitations on residential service charges
Chapter 30 Consultation requirements
Chapter 31 Time limits for demands: Section 20B
Chapter 32 Rights to information about the landlord
Chapter 33 Rights to information about the service charges
Chapter 34 Recognised tenants' associations
Chapter 35 Right to a management audit
Chapter 36 Statutory trust of service charge funds
Chapter 37 Unfair terms in Consumer Contract Regulations 1999
Chapter 38 Public sector tenants: Right to buy leases
PART V: REMEDIES: Chapter 39 Introduction
Chapter 40 Landlord's remedies: Debt claim against an existing or former tenant
Chapter 41 Landlord's remedies: Debt claim against a guarantor or a party who has entered into an authorised guarantee agreement
Chapter 42 Applications to the LVT: Section 27A of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1985 (residential leases only)
Chapter 43 Landlord's remedies: Distress
Chapter 44 Landlord's remedies: Service of notice under section 6 of the Law of Distress Amendment Act 1908
Chapter 45 Landlord's remedies: Forfeiture
Chapter 46 Miscellaneous landlord's remedies
Chapter 47 Tenants' remedies and defences.