{"product_id":"9781847669858","title":"Commercial and Residential Service Charges","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eCommercial and Residential Service Charges\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Adam Rosenthal, Elizabeth Fitzgerald, Oliver Radley-Gardner, Nathanial Duckworth, Philip Sissons\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eCommercial and Residential Service Charges is a new title covering this complex area of law for both residential and commercial property. This new title looks at the issues practitioners face when advising clients on service charge disputes including accountability for service charges, budgetary control and certification of actual costs incurred.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCommercial and Residential Service Charges covers the following:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHistory and Overview: What is a service charge; Leasehold and freehold charges (estate rent charges); Historical statutory background; General approach to construction; Codes of practice;\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eItems for which charges can be made: Repairs, maintenance etc; Insurance; Managing agents; Staff; Legal fees; Reserve funds; Borrowing costs; Sweep up clauses; Marketing costs;\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eService charge Machinery: Interim and balancing payments (estimates); Conditions precedent (certifications and accounts); Conclusiveness of certificates; Reserve and sinking funds; Trusts; Proportions; Index-linked charges;\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eStatutory Regulation: Residential Legislation (1985 Act, 2002 Act); General Legislation (UCTA and Consumer Regulations); Public Sector;\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRemedies: Forfeiture; Recovery of overpayment by tenants; Set off; Determinations by LVT: s.27A of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1985.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“This text constitutes an invaluable tool for the property practitioner and, conceivably, the diligent law student or legal researcher interested in the precise machinery of service charges, their many incarnations and the associated legal wranglings that stem from their practical operation...Meticulous and systematic in its coverage...a \"go-to\" tool for elucidation on a particular point of law or procedure...Property lawyers can rest a little easier knowing that they have such a text in their office or chambers' library.” —\u003ci\u003eConveyancer and Property Lawyer  [2013] Conv. 352\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“a worthwhile addition to the landlord and tenant practitioner's library...as up-to-the-minute as a hardback can be...Although written by lawyers, the style is as accessible as it is reasonable to expect a book on a complex legal topic to be, and should be of benefit to surveyors and property managers as well as to lawyers. Review finished, the book will be added to this reviewer's library, and will no doubt soon attract the usual plumage of sticky notes and coloured tabs sported by all the most highly regarded textbooks.” —\u003ci\u003eL. \u0026amp; T. Review 2013, 17(6), 233-234\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“There are other textbooks that cover the same subject matter; indeed there are others that are equally comprehensive. But there are none written with the clarity and authority of this 600-page weighty tome from Bloomsbury Professional…Armed with a copy of Commercial and Residential Service Charges the diligent practitioner will be better placed to put the ignorant, the crafty or the mystifying litigant in his place.” —\u003ci\u003eHousing and Property Law Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9781847669858\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Bloomsbury Professional","offers":[{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":40713055142094,"sku":"9781847669858","price":230.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/getimage_c461381a-361b-4167-b5b2-d3eb55b3e1e7.jpg?v=1640839838","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9781847669858","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}