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Register a property management company
A company set up to hold the freehold or manage the common parts of a building, usually owned by the leaseholders themselves.
Who it is for. Blocks of flats and estates where the leaseholders own or control the management of the building, and need a legal entity to hold the freehold, collect service charges and contract with suppliers.
What Companies House needs
- Directors, who are usually leaseholders themselves
- A membership or share structure that matches the leases — commonly one share per flat
- Articles that reflect the leases, so membership follows ownership of a flat when it is sold
- A registered office in the jurisdiction of registration
What this form gets wrong most often
- The articles must follow the leases
- If membership does not transfer automatically when a flat is sold, you get a company owned by people who no longer live in the building. Unpicking that is expensive.
- Service charge money is held on trust
- It is not the company's money to use freely. It is held for the leaseholders and accounted for separately.
- Dormant is rarely the right answer
- Companies collecting and spending service charges are usually not dormant, whatever the previous director assumed.
What has to be filed afterwards
- Confirmation statement and annual accounts, even where the company barely trades
- Service charge accounting to the leaseholders, separately from the company accounts
- Filings each time a flat changes hands and membership moves with it
- Identity verification for directors and people with significant control
Questions
Is this the same as a right to manage company?
Can we use our home addresses?
Property management company
£59.99 + VAT
plus £100 Companies House fee- Name ends in
- Limited or Ltd
- Jurisdictions
- England & Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland
Full price list on the pricing page. Companies House sets and collects its own fee.
Other structures
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