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What LEASE-iQ solves for your role.

Five roles, the jobs LEASE-iQ closes for each, and the exact questions to ask the system. Pick the one closest to you.

Jump to Leaseholder Director (SoF / RTM) Managing agent Solicitor / conveyancer Partner platform
Role 1

Leaseholder

You own the flat. The lease is the rulebook. You need to know what it says before you act, argue, or pay.

Jobs LEASE-iQ closes for you

  • Decide whether to pay a service charge demand. Check the demand was issued correctly (Section 21B summary, time bar, recoverability) before you write the cheque.
  • Find out if you can sublet, Airbnb, keep a pet, or do works. Read your specific clauses, with the consent process and any conditions stated.
  • Cost up a lease extension or sale. Spot the doubling ground rent clause, the term remaining, and any other red flags that affect saleability or premium.
  • Challenge a charge that does not look right. Get the clause-cited basis for a tribunal challenge under Section 19 reasonableness or Section 27A jurisdiction.
  • Understand which statutes actually apply to you. The new "what legislation applies to me" feature returns the live statute book governing your specific lease.

Try asking

Service charge"My freeholder has demanded £4,200 for major works. Was Section 20 done? Is the demand enforceable under Section 21B?"
Sublet / Airbnb"Can I let my flat on Airbnb under this lease? What about a longer-term sublet to a single family?"
Pets"Does my lease permit pets? If consent is required, what is the process?"
Lease extension"What is my ground rent now and over the next 30 years? Does this lease have a doubling clause?"
Live legislation"What legislation applies to me as a leaseholder of this property?"

One free question to test it on your situation. Most leaseholders pay nothing further until they want a second.

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Role 2

Director: share-of-freehold or RTM

You are personally on the hook for compliance, finances, and getting it right at the next board meeting. The lease is your most-cited document.

Jobs LEASE-iQ closes for you

  • Recoverability before you spend. Check whether a proposed cost is actually recoverable under your service charge clause before you instruct.
  • Section 20 sequencing. Confirm whether qualifying works or QLTAs need consultation, and that the three statutory stages have been hit in the right order.
  • Tribunal-ready evidence. Every answer cites the clause. If a leaseholder challenges, you have documentation that you consulted the lease before acting.
  • Onboard a new director quickly. Hand them the lease and a list of starter questions; they get up to speed without burning your time.
  • Sanity-check the agent. Ask LEASE-iQ what the lease says, then compare to what the managing agent says. Differences are useful conversations.

Try asking

Recoverability"Can the service charge cover legal fees the freeholder incurs enforcing the lease against another leaseholder?"
Section 20"We are planning major works at £8,000 per leaseholder. Walk me through the consultation we need before we instruct."
Reserve fund"What does the lease say about how reserves can be used, and the timing of contribution demands?"
Director onboarding"In one paragraph, what are the directors' obligations to leaseholders under this lease?"
Live legislation"What legislation governs how we, as the directors of the freeholder company, must run this building?"

Bundle it with the BLOCK-iQ compliance portal under one block subscription. Whole board access, unlimited questions, £1.50/unit/month.

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Role 3

Managing agent

You hold dozens or hundreds of leases. Long-tail leaseholder questions clog up your team. The lease itself is the source of truth nobody has time to re-read.

Jobs LEASE-iQ closes for you

  • Reduce inbound leaseholder enquiries. Answers that previously needed a property manager and a copy of the lease can be self-served by the leaseholder via your portal.
  • Free the legal team for judgement calls. The structural lease lookups (recoverability, sublet, alterations, repairs) are commodity; LEASE-iQ does them. Your lawyer time goes to the genuine ambiguities.
  • Evidence your decisions. Every answer cites the clause, so the audit trail for tribunal-bound decisions writes itself.
  • Onboard new property managers faster. They can ask LEASE-iQ instead of escalating to a senior every time a lease question comes in.
  • White-label the answer engine inside your existing UI so the relationship stays with you (talk to us about partner routes).

Try asking

Recoverability"For Flat 12 at [building], can we pass through the cost of communal CCTV under this lease?"
Standard letters"Draft a Section 20 Notice of Intention for major works on the roof at this building."
Sublet / Airbnb"For Flat 7, what consent route applies if they want to operate a long-term sublet?"
Apportionment"What is the service charge percentage for Flat 4 under this lease, and how is it calculated?"

Portfolio scale, API, white-label, bulk upload. Talk to us about the integration shape that fits.

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Role 4

Solicitor or conveyancer

Lease review is half your time on a leasehold transaction. LEASE-iQ extracts the structured data points so your judgement goes on the questions that need it.

Jobs LEASE-iQ closes for you

  • First-pass extraction. Demised premises, ground rent escalation, alterations regime, sublet position, service charge mechanism, repair allocation, insurance covenant. All cited to the clause.
  • Red-flag detection. Doubling ground rent. Oppressive forfeiture clauses. Onerous restrictive covenants. Lender-unacceptable terms (Help to Buy, mortgageability).
  • Comparison across a portfolio. When you are reviewing a developer's standard lease across 50 units, structured extraction turns days of work into hours.
  • Lease report acceleration. The structured outputs feed straight into your standard report-on-title template.
  • Honesty on edge cases. Where a clause is genuinely ambiguous, LEASE-iQ flags it. That is your judgement to make, not the system's.

Try asking

Extraction"Extract: term, term remaining, ground rent now and at every escalation, alterations consent regime, sublet regime, repairs split between landlord and tenant. Cite every clause."
Red flags"Are there any provisions in this lease that a major lender would object to, including ground rent escalation, forfeiture, or restrictive covenants?"
Service charge"How is the service charge percentage calculated for this flat, and is the apportionment method stated or discretionary?"
Comparison"Compare this lease to the standard Schedule attached. Highlight every divergence with the clause reference."

Trial routes for solicitor lease-review augmentation. Bulk upload, API, structured outputs.

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Role 5

Partner platform

Rental platforms, PropTech vendors, agent software. You sit between users and answers. LEASE-iQ plugs in where leases live.

Jobs LEASE-iQ closes for your platform

  • Instant answers inside your existing UX. Your user uploads a lease or AST; LEASE-iQ returns clause-cited answers via API or webhook. The relationship stays with you.
  • Reduce support tickets. Lease-question tickets are the most expensive class to resolve. Self-service through LEASE-iQ deflects them at the source.
  • Differentiate. Lease intelligence is not commodity; you embedding it is what your competitors will struggle to copy quickly.
  • Pre-build for the Renters' Rights Act 2026 era. The regulatory overlay updates weekly; you do not carry the cost of keeping up.
  • White-label the experience so end users see your brand, not ours, on the answer.

Example partner platforms this fits

Rental platformsOpenRent, Moveli, Rightmove, Zoopla. Lease and AST upload becomes an instant answer engine for tenants and landlords.
Agent softwareAlto, FixFlo, Resi, NewSteer. Embedded inside the agent's portal, so the long-tail leaseholder enquiry is deflected before it reaches the property manager.
Local authoritiesCouncil leasehold portfolios run into the thousands. Bulk upload + structured questions = compliance and policy reviews at scale.

API + webhooks shipping in Phase 2. Bulk upload and white-label scoping with named partners now.

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Not quite seeing your role?

If you sit somewhere between these (insurer, surveyor, lender, lender's panel solicitor, fractional director-as-a-service) the answer engine still works. Tell us how you would use it.

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