We get the feeling that government want to address the “injustice of fleecehold” by simply regulating agents and providing leasehold style tribunal redress over estate maintenance charges on existing developments. This is extremely concerning as it does not release residents from the liability to fund maintenance of public infrastructure, which is the real injustice. The fact that managing agents can and do exploit residents is a side effect of the lack of adoption. There are other less immediately obvious detrimental effects which we outline in our briefing. please feel free to share it widely with politicians and the media.
