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Making Sense of Leasehold Property provides crucial information for leaseholders of apartments regarding buying one’s freehold by Collective Enfranchisement, Right of First Refusal or negotiation, extending leases, securing the Right to Manage, challenging service charges, and running residents’ associations and resident management companies.

Kat Callo, a leading expert on leaseholder rights and issues, and author of The Survivor’s Guide To Buying A Freehold, presents practical, no-nonsense solutions for apartment owners based on ground-breaking research on apartment living in England and Wales.




What the experts say about Making Sense of Leasehold Property


"This book provides a unique and valuable guide through the thickets of leasehold law, written in simple and practical terms by a flat owner for flat owners."
- Peter Haler
Chief Executive, Leasehold Advisory Service


"This book provides excellent advice for the growing number of people buying flats. It gives a compelling account of the leasehold system, with its curiously British characteristics that date back to the Norman Conquest."
- Henry Tricks
former residential property editor, Financial Times


"Making Sense of Leasehold Property is an invaluable source of practical help and advice for the millions of owners of leasehold properties…This book is a must for all owners of leasehold property."
- Lorna Bourke
former personal finance editor of The Daily Telegraph, The Times and The Independent


"It is really useful to have such an interesting and well-organised book on the leasehold system written by such a dedicated and well-informed professional such as Kat Callo."
- Robert Levene
Chief Executive, Federation of Private Residents’ Associations