Petition · past parliament

Set up an independent regulator for leasehold properties to protect leaseholders

Closed 239 signatures

What the petition asks

Set up an independent regulator that protects leaseholders by ensuring service charges for leasehold properties are monitored, and independent audits are mandatory.
This is to protect tenants from managing agents that use unfair practises, and unjustified service charge increases, e.g. where service charges increase exponentially, are unsubstantiated and unable to be verified by leaseholders. We believe that there is a widespread problem that certain managing agents may overcharge leaseholders, either due to error or selecting vendors that are not in leaseholders' best interest, or even fraud. Leaseholders need to be protected.

Timeline

29 Dec 2023 Petition opened for signatures
29 May 2024 Closed to new signatures

Key facts

Signatures 239
Status Closed
Opened 29 Dec 2023
Closed 29 May 2024

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Source: the official petition page. Last checked 15 Jul 2026.