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Freehold: Service Charges

Question for Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

UIN HL75, tabled on 7 November 2023

To ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have to introduce new legislation to grant homeowners greater controls over the fees they pay to estate management companies.

Answered on

20 November 2023

As set out in the King’s Speech on 7 November, the Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill will grant freehold homeowners on private and mixed tenure estates the same rights of redress as leaseholders – by extending equivalent rights to transparency over their estate charges, access to support via redress schemes, and to challenge the charges they pay by taking a case to a Tribunal, just like existing leaseholders. We will introduce the Bill as soon as Parliamentary time allows.