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Free leasehold resources and tools
Guides, tools and templates grouped by the job you are trying to do. Format labels sit inside each topic. If you already know the tool, skip to All tools.
Right to Manage
Check whether your building qualifies, prepare the company and notices, then follow the existing five-stage process.
Guide
What is the Right to Manage?
A clear entry into the RTM journey for newcomers.
Read guideGuide
RTM process overview
The five statutory stages, in the existing source order.
Read process overviewTool
RTM eligibility checker
Answer the existing quiz to see whether the building may qualify.
Check eligibilityGuide
What is an RTM company?
How the company is formed and what directors do after takeover.
Read company guidePrintable guide
RTM process guide (printable PDF)
A printable companion requested by email, not an interactive planner.
Request printable guideTool
RTM preparation checklist
Gather the information already required before drafting notices.
Prepare your informationTool
RTM notice wizard
Generate the existing claim and participation notices.
Generate RTM noticesArticle
RTM pros and cons
An existing article on benefits and risks, kept as a related reading route.
Read articleGuide
Leasehold vs freehold explained
Existing topic context around ownership and lease length.
Read guide
Service charges
Understand a service charge bill, question a charge with a general challenge letter, or go to major works if you have a consultation notice.
Hub
Service charges: understand your bill and your options
Choose whether you need to understand a bill, question a charge, or respond to proposed major works.
Open Service chargesTemplate
Service charge challenge letter
A general letter for questioning a service charge, distinct from a Section 20 consultation response.
Create challenge letterHub
Section 20 hub
Task hub for proposed major works, with both response routes visible.
Open Section 20 hubGuide
Paying for major works
Existing guidance on how major-works costs are charged.
Read guidance
Major works
Understand a Section 20 notice, choose the Stage 1 or Stage 2 response, and return to the consultation guidance.
Hub
Section 20 hub
Task hub for proposed major works, with both response routes visible.
Open Section 20 hubGuide
Section 20 consultation process
How the existing consultation stages work and what a notice is asking for.
Read consultation processGuide
How to respond to a Section 20 notice
Distinguish the Stage 1 and Stage 2 tools when the reader is unsure which applies.
See response optionsGuide
If the landlord fails to consult
Existing guidance when consultation was missed or incomplete.
Read guidanceGuide
Paying for major works
Existing guidance on how major-works costs are charged.
Read guidanceTool
Section 20 checklist
Preparation context and onward links already on this page.
Open checklistTemplate
Section 20 Stage 1 observation letter
Create a Stage 1 observation on a Notice of Intention.
Create Stage 1 responseTemplate
Section 20 Stage 2 observation letter
Create a Stage 2 observation when estimates have been issued.
Create Stage 2 response
Lease extensions
Reach the existing calculator immediately and read the assumptions that sit around the estimate.
Tool
Lease extension calculator
Estimate a lease extension using the existing calculator and assumptions.
Calculate an estimateGuide
Leasehold vs freehold explained
Existing topic context around ownership and lease length.
Read guide
All tools
A compact index of every live tool, including both Section 20 letters.
- Check eligibilityRTM eligibility checker
- Request printable guideRTM process guide (printable PDF)
- Prepare your informationRTM preparation checklist
- Generate RTM noticesRTM notice wizard
- Create challenge letterService charge challenge letter
- Open checklistSection 20 checklist
- Create Stage 1 responseSection 20 Stage 1 observation letter
- Create Stage 2 responseSection 20 Stage 2 observation letter
- Calculate an estimateLease extension calculator