Written questions

Property Management Companies: Repairs and Maintenance

Commons · Question 80700 · Tabled 10 Oct 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government · Official record

Answered 20 Oct 2025

Question

Asked by Freddie van Mierlo

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps he is taking to ensure that management companies are maintaining newly built developments to agreed standards.

Answer

Answered by Matthew Pennycook, 20 Oct 2025

Estate management companies will usually agree standards for maintaining newly built developments with the developer at the time that the site is handed over to them. Where these standards are replicated in the agreement between the estate manager and the...