Managing properties: From space to place

As your scheme completes you can congratulate yourselves on achieving what you set out to do. If your efforts are to achieve your aim however, you will need from the start to have been thinking about the long term management of your organization and how to maintain its viability, not just about the build process.

The issues dealt with in this section are therefore ones you will have thought about long before your scheme is complete but it is on completion that they have to put into practice. They are dealt with in three sections

• Maintenance and management including:
  • Tenancy agreements
  • Shared ownership leases and maintaining affordability
  • Managing non-housing elements
• Managing relets and resales
• Communicating with residents and applicants
• Sustaining the CLT as a community enterprise

Step by Step Guide

• Forming a CLT
• Who you will house
• What you will build
• Finance
• Marketing sales & rentals
• Managing building process
• Managing properties
  • Maintenance and management arrangements
  • Managing relets and resales
  • Communicating with residents and applicants
  • Sustaining the CLT as an enterprise
• CLTs for other assets

Other Guides

For other CLT guides and information, visit our Resources page.