TinyFreeholder
Join the waiting list

Is our building eligible for Right to Manage? A free check

The Right to Manage lets leaseholders take over a building’s management without proving the landlord has done anything wrong. It has to pass a few tests first. This tells you which ones your building meets, using the Act as it stands now, including the change in March 2025 that raised the non-residential limit to 50%. It applies in England and Wales, and nothing you enter is stored.

Does the building share a wall with another building?

For example a terrace, a semi-detached building, or one block in a larger development.

Is any of the building used for something other than homes, such as a shop or offices?
Is a council the landlord of any of the long-lease flats?

This usually happens when a flat was sold under right to buy and the council kept the freehold.

Has a Right to Manage company already looked after this building, or stopped doing so in the last four years?

Next steps

If the check looks good, read how to set up an RTM company. It covers forming the company, inviting your neighbours, the claim notice and what the landlord can do.

If a test fails, that’s not necessarily the end. A flat the freeholder owns counts towards the two-thirds only once it is held on a long lease, so the answer can change if the freeholder sells flats on long leases. A tribunal-appointed manager is a separate route with its own grounds. Take advice before deciding.

Who can help you set one up

  • LEASE (the Leasehold Advisory Service)

    Government-sponsored, independent advice on residential leasehold law in England and Wales, including Right to Manage. GOV.UK points leaseholders to it for eligibility advice. It advises on your rights but can’t act for you.

    Free advice.

  • GOV.UK: Right to Manage and management disputes

    The official summary of what the Right to Manage is and how a claim works.

    Free.

  • Federation of Private Residents’ Associations (FPRA)

    A non-profit that says it has supported leaseholders and residents’ associations since 1971, with advice, sample constitutions and guides for members. We haven’t confirmed what it offers on Right to Manage in particular.

    Membership, with prices on its site.

We don’t get paid by any organisation on this list. If that changes, we’ll say so next to the listing.

Once you have an RTM company, Tiny Freeholder helps its directors keep the books, file accounts and run fire safety and major works checks. It doesn’t help with forming the company or serving the claim notice.