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Honest compliance writing for self-managed blocks.

Practical articles for RMC directors, RTM directors and share-of-freehold owners, written by TPI and RICS qualified property professionals. No fluff, no clickbait, just what every director needs to know about the rules they are now personally responsible for.

Director duties

What every RMC director must check first: a 2026 compliance baseline

10 min read · Updated 19 May 2026

Three new pieces of UK legislation have landed in a single Parliament. All three talk about personal director liability. If you have just become an RMC director, this is the baseline you should establish before you do anything else - ten items, with statute references and what good looks like for each.

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Fire safety

The Fire Safety (England) Regulations 2022, explained for small blocks

8 min read · Published 1 June 2026

Most coverage of these regulations is about 18-metre towers. This is the opposite: what they actually require of an ordinary small block, what changes above 11m and 18m, and what you can safely set aside. With a statute reference for every duty.

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Major works

Section 20 consultations: the £250 cap and how to avoid it

9 min read · Published 1 June 2026

Get it wrong and you can be left recovering just £250 a leaseholder on a £40,000 roof. When consultation applies, the two-stage notice process, and where self-managed blocks come unstuck.

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Insurance

Do RMC and RTM directors need D&O insurance? A straight answer

9 min read · Published 25 June 2026

It is optional in law, but you are personally exposed the moment you become a director. The situations where directors actually get sued, why a clause in your articles is not a substitute, and what cover costs in 2026.

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