A solicitor's lease review typically starts at £350. Your first question with LEASE-iQ is free.
LEASE-iQ is the AI lease intelligence product from Building Trust, the UK leasehold reference platform. Upload your lease. Ask anything. Get a clause-cited answer cross-checked by multiple AI models before it reaches you.
No card needed. England & Wales only. Information, not legal advice.
Same engine, same regulatory overlay, same clause-cited output. Two different shapes of input, depending on how tangled your situation is.
"Can my freeholder charge for X?" "What does the alterations clause say?" Type the question, get a clause-cited answer in seconds.
A water leak, a managing agent dispute, a lease that doesn't match what's on the ground. Send an 8-prompt voice briefing plus your lease. Get a written deliverable back in 24 hours.
If any of these is your situation tonight, LEASE-iQ reads your actual lease and gives you the answer with the clause cited. The first question is free.
LEASE-iQ checks whether the demand was issued correctly under Section 21B LTA 1985LTA 1985, s.21B. Every service charge demand must include the prescribed summary of rights and obligations. Without it, the demand is not enforceable until the landlord complies., whether the costs are within the 18-month time barLTA 1985, s.20B. Costs must be demanded within 18 months of being incurred, or become unrecoverable., and whether each line item is recoverable under your specific lease. Cites the exact clause.
Most leases prohibit short-term holiday lets even when they permit longer subletting. LEASE-iQ reads your subletting clause, tells you what duration is permitted, what consent is required, and how the Renters' Rights Act 2026LFRA 2024 + Renters' Rights Act 2026. Reshaped tenancy regulation; LEASE-iQ ingests the new regime on 1 May 2026. changes the picture for any AST you would grant a sub-tenant.
LEASE-iQ reads your lease for the recoverability route and confirms whether the consultation hits the three statutory stagesLTA 1985, s.20. Stage 1 Notice of Intention, Stage 2 Statement of Estimates with leaseholder nomination of contractors, Stage 3 Notice of Reasons. Skip any stage and recovery is capped at £250 per leaseholder.: Notice of Intention, Statement of Estimates, Notice of Reasons. Flags missing stages, short timelines, and any line a leaseholder could challenge under s.27ALTA 1985, s.27A. The First-tier Tribunal jurisdiction to determine whether a service charge is reasonable and payable..
If your situation is not one of these, that is fine. LEASE-iQ answers any lease question. See what LEASE-iQ solves for your role → · User guide →
No training. No fine-tuning. LEASE-iQ reads YOUR lease every time.
They tell you what the law says in general. LEASE-iQ reads your document: the schedule on page 34, the 2019 deed of variation bolted on at the end, the clause that contradicts the one before it. That is the lease you have to live under. That is the one it reads.
One gives you a confident wrong answer. The other charges £350 per question. There's a better way.
LLMs autocomplete; they do not read. They invent text across page breaks, columns, stamps, and redactions. One wrong digit on ground rent or the £250 Section 20 threshold flips the answer.
Leases are hierarchical: clauses, schedules, definitions, cross-references, and deeds of variation that override the original wording. Generic AI reads it as flat prose and loses precedence.
LTA 1985, CLRA 2002, BSA 2022, LAFRA 2024, RRA 2026 plus 40 years of tribunal authority. Foundation models train on stale snapshots. A pre-Daejan answer on Section 20 dispensation is still a wrong answer.
⚠️ The risk both ways: directors and agents are seeing confident letters that quote made-up clauses. Leaseholders sending ChatGPT-drafted challenges can trigger adverse costs under s.20C and undermine a real grievance.
How does it actually answer a question? And how is it not already out of date? Both have explicit answers.
A 4-stage pipeline that closes the failure modes that break generic AI: PDF reading, lease structure, stale statutes, confident-wrong.
What we track, how updates are reviewed before going live, and how you can verify what we treat as the live statute book.
"We had a water leak. Three flats affected. The solicitor told us we were liable as freeholders. LEASE-iQ read the actual lease and found the clause that put liability on the leaseholder's internal pipework. Saved us thousands."
Carl Johnson
Director, Share of Freehold · SW11
Verified pilot userUpload your lease, ask a question, get a clause-cited answer. Faster than reading this paragraph.
Most compliance questions start with 'what does the lease say?' Stop guessing. LEASE-iQ reads the lease and gives you the answer - with the clause reference you need for board minutes, leaseholder communications, and tribunal evidence.
Get instant answers to lease questions before board meetings. Share clause-cited responses with other directors.
Every LEASE-iQ answer includes the specific clause reference. If challenged, you have documentation that shows you consulted the lease.
Most tools give you information and leave you to figure out what to do with it. LEASE-iQ connects every answer to the next step.
Your lease requires written consent from the freeholder before subletting.
Your ground rent doubles every 10 years. This makes your lease harder to sell and more expensive to extend.
Your service charge has no cap. The freeholder can recover costs without limit.
A property solicitor's written lease review typically starts at £350. LEASE-iQ gives you clause-cited answers from your actual lease, cross-checked by multiple AI models.
We are directors ourselves at Hafer Road in Battersea. We have been through lease extensions, service charge disputes, and RTM. No sales pitch. Just a conversation.
Not sure if the document you have is your lease, or where to find it? See the user guide on identifying and locating your lease →
The Building Trust assistant can route you to the right page, explain a clause, or get you started with LEASE-iQ. First question is free.
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