Management companies in new estates?

Dors1976

I'm looking in to buying a new property and I asked the estate agent about the Management Company - i said I assume there isn't one and he said there is. I thought they were no longer in operation in a new estate. It is a mixed estate of apartments and houses.

Can anyone shed light on what the situation is with management companies in new estates?

Thanks.

copacetic

Dors1976 wrote: »

I'm looking in to buying a new property and I asked the estate agent about the Management Company - i said I assume there isn't one and he said there is. I thought they were no longer in operation in a new estate. It is a mixed estate of apartments and houses.

Can anyone shed light on what the situation is with management companies in new estates?

Thanks.

pretty much every new estate has a management company. why did you think they weren't around any more?

Dors1976

There was another property I was looking at and they advertised - no managment company for houses.

athtrasna

Any development with apartments should have a management company now. Don't see how the houses could opt out, ours is a mixed development and the houses benefit from almost all the services in the budget.

Dors1976

Lucky you, not the same in all estates though - think I'll check the situation with the estate agent.

JD24

All apartment blocks will have a management company.

Housing estates that applied for planning permission before 2006 can have a management company but anywhere where planning permission was applied for after 2006 will not have a management company.