Valuation and Legal Advice for Freeholders
Over fifty years’ combined experience advising freeholders, landlords and managing agents on lease extension, enfranchisement and landlord and tenant matters. RICS Registered Valuers and specialist property solicitors, working in tandem to protect your interests and achieve positive outcomes.
London · Nationwide
Complete representation, from notice to completion
Freeholders come to us at different points. A Section 42 notice claiming a lease extension. A Section 13 notice claiming the freehold by collective enfranchisement. A leaseholder seeking consent to alter, assign or vary. Or a sale that triggers the Section 5 right of first refusal.
Whichever it is, the requirement is the same: an accurate view of what your interest is worth, and a team that knows whether the notice holds and when your deadlines fall.
Blakes Chartered Surveyors carries out the valuation, the negotiation and, where it is needed, the expert evidence. Arcadia Law serves the notices, handles any tribunal proceedings and completes the legal work.
Two specialist professions working alongside one another, from the day the notice arrives to the day the matter completes — efficiently, and towards a successful outcome.
RICS Registered Valuers
ALEP members
Specialist property solicitors*Recoverable costs are limited to the freeholder’s reasonable costs of investigating title, of the valuation prepared for the claim and of the conveyancing. The cost of negotiating the premium is not recoverable, and where a matter is referred to the First-tier Tribunal each side bears its own costs. More on the current position.
How we help
Why freeholders instruct us
Valuation and legal under one roof
Experienced, specialist Chartered Surveyors and RICS Registered Valuers working alongside specialist property solicitors on the same instruction — not two firms who have never worked together.
Experience on both sides of the table
We act on both sides of enfranchisement claims in practice, and that is an advantage. Knowing how a claim is argued from the other side is what produces a commercially realistic result rather than a theoretical one. Where we are retained by a freeholder, we represent your interests.
Clients across the spectrum
Private investors, resident freehold companies, housing associations, charities and corporate groups. The approach is adapted to the client, not applied from a template.
Members of ALEP
Both firms are members of the Association of Leasehold Enfranchisement Practitioners — genuinely experienced practitioners in a field where that is not a given.
A track record of service excellence
Hundreds of five-star client reviews across both firms, from clients who came to us with something at stake.
Portfolio landlords and managing agents
Well placed to act on an ongoing or retained basis where you hold multiple interests or manage on behalf of others.
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RICS Registered Valuers. Valuation, negotiation and expert evidence.
Specialist property solicitors. Notices, conveyancing and documentation.
Received a notice or enquiry from your leaseholder?
Send us the notice or the request, together with the property address. We will tell you whether it is valid, what your deadlines are, what the interest is worth, and what your options are — before you respond to anything, or incur costs that may prove irrecoverable.
Valuation
Blakes Surveyors Ltd
Company no. 9184264
RICS regulated firm no. 752265
Legal
Arcadia Law Ltd
Company no. 10043933
SRA no. 629605
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