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Read your lease before you call a £350-an-hour solicitorSpecialist UK property solicitors typically charge £200–£500/hour for advisory work; £350 is a market mid-point. SRA price transparency rules require firms to publish their hourly rates. Source: Law Society fees guidance, 2024–25..

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Built by a director who logged 2,600 hoursAdam Street's logged hours as Lead Director and Managing Agent for Hafer Road Freehold Ltd (2022 to 2025). Includes compliance, disputes, leasehold-law research, and day-to-day building management. at Hafer Road, Battersea. Not a consultancy. Not a law firm. The story.

Why Building Trust exists

Homes carry money and emotion. When that goes wrong, it gets toxic fast.

Our job is to reduce friction and align leaseholders, freeholders, and managing agents. Most leasehold disputes are misalignment, not malice. They run on the same lease, the same statute, and the same building. We give every side the same facts so the conversation lands somewhere reasonable, fast. If "they serve both sides" sounds like a conflict, it's the opposite. Both sides reading the same lease against the same statute is how disputes resolve. The fight is rarely about the lease. It's about what each side thinks the lease says, and how the legislation that sits behind it applies.

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Pick the one that sounds like you. We'll take you to the guide, the calculator, or the workflow that matches.

What your other options look like

Four routes to a leasehold answer. Most cost more and tell you less.

DIY, ChatGPT, solicitor, LEASE-iQ — side by side: cost, speed, and what you walk away with.

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“We were about to pay £5,000 for a KC opinion on our lease. LEASE-iQ gave us a usable answer in four minutes. Clause cited. Verifiable against the lease itself.”

Sara Whitehead . Management Committee, Gabriel Square (80 units)

No credit card required · Documents encrypted & never shared · Built by a leaseholder and director — both sides of every dispute.

These are buildings in London and the South East where people used our tools this year.

Alwen Court · 86 units · Bermondsey

“People in our block were paying out of their own pocket to replace failed window panes. We used LEASE-iQ and found the windows were freeholder demised. Over 15 units were affected. The whole thing should have been on the structural warranty insurance, not out of the leaseholders' pockets.”

The insurance claim has been submitted. The potential cost to replace the windows across the building: over £1M. All units will be included in the claim before they fail too.

Donald Morrison. Lead Leaseholder

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Gabriel Square · 80 units · St Albans

“Our managing agent said we needed a £5,000 King's Counsel opinion on a service charge question. We ran it through LEASE-iQ first. It came back with the clause, the legislation, and a clear position we could test with our solicitor. The KC was no longer necessary.”

That is £5,000 not added to the service charge budget. 80 leaseholders who did not have to fund a legal opinion the building could resolve with its own lease in front of it.

Sara Whitehead. Management Committee

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Stepney Way · 12 units · E1

“Nobody told us what we were responsible for. We had no fire risk assessment, our service charge demands weren't compliant, and the building funds weren't in a client account.”

The online Building Trust audit surfaced all of it. We emailed the fellow directors immediately. The fire risk assessment is now booked, the demands are being corrected, and the lease turned up development rights nobody knew existed. Without the audit, one leaseholder complaint could have taken them to tribunal.

E1. Confidential

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3+ buildings · London

“Someone's flat leaked into the flat below. The leaseholder whose flat was leaking said the building insurance should cover it. Nobody actually checked the lease, because it's too complicated and costly to write a letter. Easier just to pay for it and move on.”

This is the most common question we get. The cost goes on the building insurance and every leaseholder's premiums go up for one person's problem. LEASE-iQ reads the lease, finds the clause, and confirms who is actually liable. The right person pays. Everyone else does not.

Multiple blocks across London

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We are directors at Hafer Road in Battersea. We have been through lease extensions, service-charge disputes, and RTM. No sales pitch, just a conversation - and if you want to stay informed, tick the digest box and we will send one email a month with the legislation and case law that actually matters.

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