Who are Realty Law?
Realty Law is a specialist legal business focused on leasehold property management law, both residential and commercial, particularly the recovery of ground rent and service charges. Our highly experienced and skilled legal team have many years of experience in this field with specialist senior solicitors involved at all stages and access to senior counsel who support us with more complex issues.
We work in close partnership with our clients and offer a bespoke service, tailoring our approach to suit your needs and expectations, becoming an extension of your own team.
Our approach embraces reputational risk management to ensure that leaseholders are treated fairly and sympathetically to protect your reputation and to avoid any damage to your leaseholder relationships.
We are focused on speeding up recoveries and ensuring costs are comparable to the size of the debt.
We offer reporting tailored to meet with your requirements. We also offer our clients a free legal helpline, bespoke training and added value services as well as access to a full range of other commercial legal services.
Realty comprises a law firm of dedicated and experienced property professionals who have worked in the sector for many years. Realty is all about the problems which the team have identified in the past and how these issues can be improved or resolved for clients going forward. We believe that this makes our approach focused and unique and provides the best possible service to our clients.
All work is overseen by qualified staff who understand your needs and will provide a personal service for all leasehold issues. We also ensure that there is someone available to answer your queries 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
Realty Law was started in response to the growing need for legal support required by landlords and commercial property owners in collecting charges and managing their affairs effectively. We understand that it is difficult to stay on top of the growing amount of legislation.
You can rest assured that we have developed a tailored system to swiftly collect your outstanding money and a team of specialists to advise you on your rights and legal changes.
Realty Law ’s approach
Our aims
• To reduce your debtor days so you are paid more quickly
• To improve your cash flow so you can trade more efficiently
• To reduce the cost of collection to keep your overheads down
• To protect your reputation by applying risk management
• To become your trusted supplier of choice
• To become an extension of your team
• To provide first class litigation solutions
• To provide an efficient and specialist service to the property management sector for the recovery of leasehold charges and to deal with any other specialist challenges
Realty Review
We offer a free initial review of your practices and procedures.
The aim of this is to see if we can provide you with any advice to aid best practice and to help you to enhance your approach. We will also use this as an opportunity to update you on any recent legal developments to ensure you are aware and have a fully legally compliant approach.
Benchmarking
Why not consider instructing us on a trial basis as part of a benchmarking exercise against your current providers to ensure you are achieving the best possible results for your business from your suppliers. We are confident that we can help you to enhance your approach to give you some peace of mind.
Training
We offer bespoke training courses and workshops for our clients, which can be delivered to small groups or at large conferences either in-house or at our offices.
The training would be tailored to meet your individual requirements. We are always happy to share our knowledge and experience with our clients by providing training courses on any aspect of leasehold property or recovery actions. If you require any type of training for your credit control staff or property managers just let us know which topic or list of topics you would like us to cover and we will be happy to liaise with you to arrange training on any subject.
Service Charge & Ground Rent Recovery
We have an experienced team of professionals who can deal with all aspects of service charge and ground rent recovery, both at the early stages and in more complex situations where Court proceedings and Tribunal applications are involved.
We aim to maximise recovery by offering a tailored service where recovery is not hampered by charging large fees for small debts. We find that this is counter-productive, not only in terms of recovery but also in terms of ongoing relationships with leaseholders. Our primary aim is to protect the reputation of our clients. We offer a bespoke reporting service for all bulk instructions. We will report to you at intervals which you choose and providing the information you request in a format which is adapted to each client’s requirements. Our software has been scripted especially for this type of recovery and to enable us to initiate recovery of bulk instructions within 24 hours of instruction.
Breach of Lease
In addition to non-paying leaseholders we increasingly find that Managing Agents and Landlords have frequent issues within a development caused by leaseholders who do not know their obligations or choose to disregard their obligations.
We have experience in dealing with all types of breaches of covenant arising from noise nuisance, pets, flooring, unauthorised sub-letting, alterations and repairs. In the case of any breach we will discuss with you what you would like to achieve, the remedies which are possible, and we will offer comprehensive advice as to the best course of action and recovery of costs. We can often achieve a quick and reasonable solution to most breach situations at little or no cost to our clients
Lease Variation
It is often the case that a Lease does not operate in quite the way you would like - it is also often the case that you must live with this! There are, however, circumstances in which there is only one option and that is to vary the Lease.
This can arise where the service charge matrix does not add up to 100%, where there are manifest irregularities in the leases which are unfair to leaseholders, where the Lease does not cover services which are vital to the welfare of a development (such as replacement of items as opposed to repair) or where amendments to ground rent provisions are desirable. These are just a few issues which can make this option worthwhile.
Commercial Recovery
We have many years of experience and knowledge in the field of commercial property, covering mixed use developments, industrial estates and retail units.
If there is rent or service charge outstanding we can recover this, quickly and effectively. We will advise as to the best methods of recovery, whether the Commercial Rent Arrears Recovery (CRAR) process is appropriate to your situation, the alternative processes and which one will lead to the outcome you need in the fastest possible time.
We are confident that the services we provide in respect of your commercial properties will enhance the smooth running of your business and the management of your development.
Collective Enfranchisement
Our aim is to make a complex process easily manageable and stress free for our clients, at an affordable rate and with 24/7 access to the individuals handling your matter.
We are able to advise upon and guide you through the enfranchisement process, including drafting all of the necessary documentation and ensuring that all parts of the process are completed within the strict time-frames.
We are confident that we can provide the support and expertise required to steer through this process effectively, with regular updates as standard and advice and assistance whenever it is needed.
Right to manage
We appreciate that this is often an area where our clients face difficulty and where it is often impossible to trace non-paying tenants or to remove bad tenants from your property.
We work closely with specialist third party services to provide a full rent recovery, possession and enforcement process for Letting Agents, Managing Agents and Landlords at a fixed cost and which is fast and cost efficient.
We offer a nationwide service and we are happy to discuss your specific requirements at any time to ensure that our clients receive a service tailored to their requirements.
Key Individuals
Neil Jinks
Business Development Director
Neil is a legal debt recovery and civil law enforcement specialist with more than 30 years of experience.
M 07594 089 617
E njinks@realty.law
Charlotte Collins
Operations Director
Charlotte is a specialist property litigation Solicitor with more than 30 years of experience.
T 0121 274 0011
M 07399 530 834
E ccollins@realty.law
What people say about us:
Good people at Realty Law; One to watch!
Leading property Professional
We have previously worked with Charlotte Collins and found her expertise and knowledge invaluable, she is a great asset to your firm.
Representative of a leading property management company
I have worked with Neil Jinks for many years and have always been impressed by his professionalism, providing the highest level of service a client would wish to receive and above all delivering results. I would recommend anyone seeking advice to contact him.”
Associate Director, Leading Practice
