ALEP
P r o m o t in g l e a s e h o l d e x P e r t i s e
INTRODUCTION
What’s in a Welcome to FLAT LIVING’s new ALEP pages. In each issue we will be dedicating a section of the magazine to the Association of Leasehold Enfranchisement Practitioners, giving them an opportunity to keep flat owners informed about important enfranchisement issues and publishing a listing of ALEP members who can be contacted for advice. On the following page, we introduce the organisation and its members and meet Director Anna Bailey
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ALEP (the Association of Leasehold Enfranchisement Practitioners) is a not-for-profit association that brings together solicitors, surveyors, barristers, enfranchisement intermediaries and managing agents working in the residential leasehold sector. ALEP promotes best practice by vetting members to ensure they have significant expertise in leasehold enfranchisement. Membership of ALEP acts as a badge of assurance so that flat owners and freeholders can be confident that they are employing professionals with the right level of experience in handling potentially complex transactions. ALEP was created in 2007 by the brother and sister team of Alex Greenslade and Anna Bailey, with support from Peter Haler, then Chief Executive of LEASE. Greenslade and Bailey, who are also co-directors of enfranchisement intermediary firm Leasehold Solutions, recognised that owners of leasehold properties were often lacking reassurance that the professionals they were dealing with were reputable. Freeholders also require such reassurance from their advisers. They spotted an opportunity for an organisation to promote best practice in the sector for the benefit of flat owners and freeholders, and also to provide vital networking opportunities for those working in the leasehold enfranchisement sector.
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Anna Bailey: helping bring together leasehold enfranchisement specialists issue 13, Winter
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