PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Freehold (17 July 2018)

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what proposals he has to limit the ability of (a) freeholders to appoint managing agents and (b) freeholder managing agents to levy fees on leaseholders; and if he will make a statement.

Asked by:
Sir Desmond Swayne (Conservative)

The outcome of our recent call for evidence on, ‘Protecting consumers in the letting and managing agent market’, sets out our intention to introduce measures which will enable leaseholders to veto a landlord’s choice of managing agent where justified, review their performance and change agents where agreed levels of service have not been achieved and maintained. It also outlines our plans to set up a Working Group to examine those fees and charges that go beyond leasehold service charges, but can impact both leaseholders and freeholders, and consider under what circumstances they are justified, and if they should be capped or banned.

Answered by:
Mrs Heather Wheeler (Conservative)
23 July 2018