Property Management Companies
Question
Dame Caroline Dinenage
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of requiring landlords to re-tender for a new property management company when than 50% of all leaseholders support re-tendering.
Answer
Matthew PennycookOn 4 July, the government published a consultation on strengthening leaseholder protections over charges and services. It can be found on gov.uk here.
The consultation seeks views on proposals to strengthen regulation of managing agents, including powers to appoint a manager or replace a managing agent and the introduction of mandatory professional qualifications for managing agents.
The government will set out further measures to strengthen regulation of managing agents in due course.