Urban Owners, the LKP accredited managing agent which specialises in right to manage, has been bought by the larger Warwick Estates. The sale concludes 10-years in property management of founder Steve Wylie, a former management consultant with Chicago based giant Accenture. It was after he personally encountered the absurdities of leasehold tenure as the owner […]
Urban Owners finds 41% of leaseholders have not had lease terms explained by solicitors
Less than 2% worried about about ground rents when buying a flat Less than 5% have a good understanding of commonhold, but … … APPG on September 11 is to consider the ground rent scandal, the government response to it … and the need for commonhold to replace leasehold The LKP-accredited management company Urban Owners […]
Right to manage champion Urban Owners joins LKP
– Tech savvy company manages large, complex, mixed-use sites right down to conversions of two flats – More than 450 RTMs completed for leaseholders The latest property management company to become accredited to LKP is Urban Owners, which is an acknowledged expert in gaining leaseholders the right to manage. It has carried out 450-500 RTMs […]
DCLG told ‘incentive to remain an honest managing agent gets less with each passing year’
Civil servants meet property managers who work for leaseholders … which makes a change from trade bodies, compromised quango chairmen, housebuilders working the leasehold opportunities, big freehold interests (frequently owned offshore) and the terracotta army of professionals whose livelihood depends on English flat-ownership being absurdly complex and unbalanced Four senior managing agents met officials at […]
