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Housing & asset management

Your housing and other assets need effective and proactive management.

The starting point is to have robust tenancy and management agreements to govern the relationship with your customers. These should reflect best practice and the ethos of your organisation. We take pride in our drafting which is plain English and easily understood by your customers.

Managing unacceptable behaviour through tenancy agreements, use of legislation and other proactive initiatives is essential for every social housing provider. If problems do arise, we are experienced advocates and have used all the tools available to housing providers to address such issues. Our team attends local courts on a regular basis and we are very happy to meet with your staff and those affected to ensure evidence is gathered quickly and the appropriate remedy is sought.

The financial viability of your organisation rests on income recovery and we can assist with prompt action against those who fail or delay in paying their rent to minimise the impact on your business.

Your main aim will be to provide quality affordable housing to your customers, but inevitably you will face claims against you or have to defend claims for compensation due to disrepair. We aim to resolve these issues quickly regardless of whether the fault for the property condition lies with you or your customer.

The new Corporate Manslaughter legislation makes it essential that inspections and maintenance is carried out for gas appliances and we can help with policies and procedures to ensure these happen. If it does go wrong, we have experience of dealing with major incidents as a result of gas issues including investigation.

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Joel Kordan

Partner
T: 03700 86 4100
I: +44 (0)121 625 4100
E: joel.kordan@shoosmiths.co.uk