Guide — draft outline

Management fees: what's reasonable?

This guide is in draft. The outline below is the approved scope; full copy is pending editorial review. In the meantime, the free tools on this site already cover this topic in practice.

Planned outline

  1. How management fees are charged: per-unit fixed fees vs percentages
  2. What industry guidance treats as typical [SOURCE-PLACEHOLDER: RICS Service Charge Residential Management Code — verify current edition figures]
  3. Red flags: fees as a % of spend, duplicated charges, unexplained increases
  4. The reasonableness test (s.19) applied to management fees
  5. Getting the breakdown: your statutory information rights
  6. Tribunal treatment of management fees — what gets reduced

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