Use the words you would use with a neighbour. I will suggest the closest page I can match.
Take control
More control starts with choosing the right route.
In plain EnglishA statutory route that lets qualifying leaseholders take over specified management responsibilities without buying the freehold.Read the official guidance, buying the freehold and commonhold change different things. Start with the outcome you want, then check eligibility, cost, governance and the work that follows.
How building trust helps
Solve what you can. Check the source. Escalate only when necessary.
- 01Understand the issue
Start with a concise answer in ordinary language.
- 02Organise the evidence
Use the checklist or practical tool where one helps.
- 03Check the signed lease
Use LEASE-iQ® to find the clause, source and uncertainty.
- 04Decide what needs help
Use professional input for ambiguity, dispute, safety or material consequence.
These pages explain the routes and the evidence to gather. They do not determine statutory eligibility, valuation, legal procedure or whether a particular building should proceed.
Choose the route
Management, ownership or a different structure?
The first decision is what you actually want to change.
Take over management through RTM
RTM changes specified management responsibility. It does not transfer the freehold.
Open the guideBuy the freehold
Understand collective enfranchisement, information requirements, valuation and the statutory process.
Open the guideWhat does commonhold mean?
Understand freehold units, the commonhold association and the continuing governance rulebook.
Open the guideAfter control changes
Prepare to run the building
Control creates decisions, records, financial and operational work that need owners.
The first 90 days
Secure authority, records, money, insurance, safety information and decision controls.
Open the guideRun a resident-led building
Connect the company, leases, contracts, records and board decisions.
Open the guideUnderstand director responsibilities
Separate company duties, lease obligations, operational roles and recorded decisions.
Open the guideThe evidence engine
When the answer depends on the signed lease.
LEASE-iQ connects the real question to the governing document and current sources. Open the cited clause and check the answer before acting.
See how LEASE-iQ works