Flats 1-66 Basing House Moulsford Mews, Reading, RG30 1EU
CAM/00MC/LIS/2019/0012 · LIS · Reading · decided 11 Nov 2019
The tribunal found the 2014 to 2018 service charges payable as demanded apart from conceded items, reduced managing agents' fees by 10% a year, disallowed solicitors' costs, found water pump and boiler works subject to unmet section 20 consultation so recovery is capped, and made a section 20C order preventing the respondents' costs of the application being added to the service charge.
| Outcome | Reduced |
|---|---|
| Section 20C (landlord's costs of the case) | Order made |
| Section 20 consultation | Consultation failure found |
| Who applied | Landlord or management company |
| Freeholder / landlord | Southern Housing Group Ltd |
| Management company | Portman Square West Village Reading Management Limited |
| Managing agent | Remus Management |
| Building | A block, 65 flats |
| Service charge years in dispute | 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 |
| Items in dispute | cleaning and grounds, insurance, legal and professional fees, management fees, other, repairs and maintenance, reserve fund, utilities |
| Items disallowed or reduced | legal and professional fees, management fees, repairs and maintenance |
| Total demanded | not stated as one figure |
| Total found payable | not stated as one figure |
| Fees or costs ordered | none stated |
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What the decision says
- flats n
which consist of 65 flats
- management company
(2) [name] Square West [name] Management Limited (Block Manager)
- agent
Acting through their Managing Agent, namely Remus Management (“the Managing Agents”)
- years
service charges for past years (2014 to 2018) and the current year (2019)
- outcome
service charges charged in the service charge years 2014 to 2018 are reasonable and payable as demanded, save in respect of
- items reduced
the managing agents’ fees demanded, which we find should be reduced by 10% p.a. for each of the 4 years
- s20c
The Respondents’ costs shall not be added to the service charge account and so an order is made under section 20C of the Act.
- s20
which were not followed; the Respondents are therefore limited to recovering £25o from the Applicant
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