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<title>ARMA secures major agreement with energy companies to protect leaseholders from disconnections&lt;br/&gt;</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Association of Residential Managing Agents (ARMA) has reached a major agreement with the big six energy companies to protect leaseholders from power disconnections to the communal areas of their property.<br/><br/><strong>19th December 2011</strong><br/><br/>
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<title>ARMA Promotes Best Practice for Service Charge Accounting&lt;br/&gt;</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Following publication of the first detailed <a href="http://www.arma.org.uk/doc/public/TECPLN10724-TECH-03-11-D5-rvsd-web.pdf"><span style="color: #000080;"><strong>guidance on accounting for residential service charges</strong></span></a>, ARMA has issued <a href="http://www.arma.org.uk/doc/public/LAN08-Accounting-for-Service-Charges--26-10-11-.pdf"><strong><span style="color: #000080;">advice for leaseholders on the key issues covered</span></strong></a>. ARMA intends this to help leaseholders understand what they should be expecting from their landlords or managing agents in terms of best practice when it comes to how their service charge money is spent. <a href="http://www.arma.org.uk/doc/public/ServiceChargeAccountingGuidance.pdf"><span style="color: #000080;"><strong>Read more...</strong></span></a><br/><br/><strong>8th November 2011</strong><br/><br/>
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<title>Property managers put consumers first at major leasehold conference&lt;br/&gt;</title>
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<description><![CDATA[This year's annual conference of leasehold property managers, organised by ARMA, has focused even more closely on making life better for people living in blocks of flats. A ground-breaking initiative to further raise standards in the property management sector and fill the void left by government's failure to regulate, was announced to over 500 managing agent delegates. <a href="http://www.arma.org.uk/doc/public/ARMA-Conference-2011PR.pdf"><strong><span style="color: #000080;">Read more...</span></strong></a><br/><br/><strong>6th October 2011<br /></strong><br/><br/>
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<title>ARMA urges residents to take action on concealed flues during Gas Safety Week&lt;br/&gt;</title>
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<description><![CDATA[As the very first Gas Safety Week gets under way, ARMA is urging people living in blocks of flats to act now to ensure concealed gas flue are safe. <a href="http://www.arma.org.uk/doc/public/ARMAPRLFUEs.pdf"><strong><span style="color: #000080;">Read more...</span></strong></a><br/><br/><strong>12th September 2011<br /></strong><br/><br/>
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<title>Finally - National Guidance on Fire Safety in Purpose-Built Blocks of Flats&lt;br/&gt;</title>
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<description><![CDATA[A new <a href="http://www.arma.org.uk/doc/public/Fire-Safety-FINAL-updated-28-09-2011.pdf"><strong><span style="color: #000080;">guide to fire safety in purpose built blocks of flats</span></strong></a> has just been published which ARMA hopes will bring some consistency to fire risk assessments in such buildings and help keep residents safe.<a href="http://www.arma.org.uk/doc/public/FireSafetyPR.pdf"><strong> <span style="color: #000080;">Read more...<br /></span></strong></a><br/><br/><strong>3rd August 2011</strong><br/><br/>
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<title>ARMA and ESC produce crucial guidance on Electrical Safety in Communal Areas&lt;br/&gt;</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Electrical Safety Council (ESC) has teamed up with ARMA and a number of other organisations to produce a <a href="http://www.arma.org.uk/doc/public/ESC-Guidance-Communal-Areas.pdf"><span style="color: #000080;"><strong>new guide promoting electrical safety in the communal areas of residential properties in England and Wales</strong></span></a>. <a href="http://www.arma.org.uk/doc/public/Communal-Areas-Guide-PressRelease."><span style="color: #000080;"><strong>Read more...</strong></span></a><br/><br/><strong>30th June 2011</strong><br/><br/>
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<title>First Guidance for Freeholders of Houses on Private Estates&lt;br/&gt;</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The right to have service charge money held in trust, to challenge its reasonableness, to see a summary of costs and to be consulted on major works -&shy; these are just some of the protections open to leaseholders. Freeholders living on a private estate with obligations to pay service charges for the upkeep of common areas, on the other hand, do not enjoy the same protection even though they are paying for the same service and possibly even into the same fund as leaseholders. It is with this in mind that ARMA has published its first <a href="http://www.arma.org.uk/doc/public/Freeholders-in-Private-Estates--7-2-11-.pdf"><span style="color: #000080;"><strong>guidance for freeholders</strong></span></a> encouraging them to be&nbsp; aware of the rights they do have when paying service charges. <a href="http://www.arma.org.uk/doc/public/FreeholdersGuidance.p"><strong><span style="color: #000080;">Read more</span>...</strong></a><br/><br/><strong>16th Feb 2011</strong><br/><br/>
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