In conversation with Bishop & Sewell: Leasehold Question Time – Missing Landlords
Join experts at Bishop & Sewell for a FREE online event for leaseholders.
In conversation with Bishop & Sewell:
Leasehold Question Time – Missing Landlords
Buying your freehold or extending your lease is one thing - but what if your landlord is missing?
Join Mark Chick and Chris Macartney, to discuss a range of issues that arise, in practice, when owners of flats and leasehold houses are faced with an absent landlord.
In this FREE one-hour session, Mark and Chris will outline key points and leaseholders will be offered the chance to ask questions on a range of missing landlord issues including:
• Correcting falling lease length
• Ground rents and re-mortgaging
• Lease extensions and freehold acquisitions
• Alterations or improvements that may be required under their lease
He is a director and a founder committee member of the Association of Leasehold Enfranchisement Practitioners (ALEP) the sector body to which all reputable valuers and solicitors working in the field of Leasehold Reform now belong.
Over the past ten years he has developed Bishop & Sewell’s Landlord & Tenant practice to be one of the largest specialist teams in the UK. Under his direction the department has flourished and he now leads a team of specialist solicitors and property experts.
He is a very well-known and highly-regarded specialist in Landlord & Tenant matters. His expertise when it comes to leasehold reform issues is unparalleled. In 2016 Mark was awarded Solicitor of the Year at the Enfranchisement and Right To Manage Awards (ERMAs); Bishop & Sewell won the award as Solicitors of the Year in 2018.
Mark is a member of the Leasehold Valuation Tribunal Frequent User Group Panel. His views as a leasehold reform specialist dealing with freehold purchase, lease extension, services charges and landlord & tenant matters can also be followed direct on LinkedIn and Twitter.
In addition to acting for HNW individuals and large groups of tenants in coordinated applications for lease extensions and collective claims, Chris has developed a niche practice in acting for leaseholders in applications for new leases from the Crown, advising and acting for leaseholders in claims to acquire the freehold where the landlord is absent under the Landlord and Tenant Act 1987 and acquiring interests where the crown has disclaimed their interest in the building following dissolution of a limited company.
Added to significant advisory experience acting for clients including companies post enfranchisement in dealing with management of large blocks of flats Chris has a wide ranging client base encompassing individuals, corporates, developers and high net worth individuals.
Chris has been published in the Guardian and the Times in relation to Leasehold Reform matters and other industry related publications.
An approachable and friendly face Chris is well known in the sector as a safe pair of hands with practical and technical experience. Chris jointly heads the firm’s Landlord & Tenant department focusing on leasehold reform matters.
He also regularly advices in other Landlord & Tenant matters relating to both commercial and residential property.
