First-tier Tribunal (Property Chamber)
What we do
We handle applications, appeals and references relating to disputes over property and land.
Residential property disputes that we handle include:
- rent increases for ‘fair’ or ‘market’ rates
- leasehold disputes
- leasehold enfranchisement
- disputes about park homes
- improvement notices and prohibition orders where your notice is under the Housing Act 2004
- disputes about licences for houses in multiple occupation
- the right to buy your council home being refused because it’s deemed suitable for elderly people
Land registration matters that we handle include:
- disputes over a change to the land register
- applications to correct or cancel certain documents relating to registered land
Agricultural land and drainage matters that we handle include:
- disputes between agricultural tenants and landlords in relation to certain farming tenancies
- applications in respect of certain drainage disputes between neighbours.
We also handle applications from valuation officers to enter premises to carry out certain valuations.
Who we are
We are one of 7 chambers of the First-tier Tribunal which settles legal disputes and is structured around particular areas of law.
Tribunal information
- Land Registration hearing list
- Residential Property hearing list
- Agricultural Lands and Drainage forms and further guidance
- Land Registration forms and further guidance
- Land Registration: a short guide for users
- Residential Property forms and further guidance
- procedure rules
- practice directions and statements - residential property
- practice directions and statements - land registration
- previous decisions - residential property
- previous decisions - land registration
- complaints procedure
Contact the First-tier Tribunal (Property Chamber)
Agricultural land and drainage
Piccadilly Plaza
Manchester
M1 4AH
United Kingdom
Telephone
0161 237 9491
Fax
01264 785 128
Land registration
10 Alfred Place
London
WC1E 7LR
United Kingdom
Telephone
020 7291 7250
Residential property: Eastern region
Cambridge
CB1 1BA
United Kingdom
Telephone
01223 841 524
Fax
01264 785 129
DX number
97650 Cambridge 3
This office covers the following unitary authorities: Bracknell Forest, West Berkshire, Reading, Slough, Windsor and Maidenhead, Wokingham, Luton, Peterborough, Milton Keynes, Southend-on-Sea and Thurrock.
It also covers the following counties: Bedfordshire, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Cambridgeshire, Essex, Hertfordshire, Norfolk, Northamptonshire, Oxfordshire and Suffolk.
Residential property: London region
London
WC1E 7LR
United Kingdom
Telephone
0207 446 7700
Fax
01264 785 060
This office covers all the London boroughs.
Residential property: Midlands region
Birmingham
B5 4UU
United Kingdom
Telephone
0121 600 7888
Fax
01264 785 122
This office covers the following Metropolitan districts: Birmingham, Coventry, Dudley, Sandwell, Solihull, Walsall and Wolverhampton.
It also covers the following unitary authorities: Derby, Leicester, Rutland, Nottingham, Herefordshire, Telford and Wrekin and Stoke-on-Trent.
It also covers the following counties: Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire, Shropshire, Staffordshire, Warwickshire and Worcestershire.
Residential property: Northern region
Manchester
M1 4AH
United Kingdom
Telephone
0161 237 9491
Fax
01264 785 128
This office covers the following Metropolitan districts: Barnsley, Bolton, Bradford, Bury, Calderdale, Doncaster, Gateshead, Kirklees, Knowsley, Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Oldham, Rochdale, Rotherham, St. Helens, Salford, Sefton, Sheffield, Stockport, Sunderland, Tameside, Trafford, Tyneside (North & South), Wakefield, Wigan and Wirral.
It also covers the following unitary authorities: Hartlepool, Middlesbrough, Redcar and Cleveland, Darlington, Halton, Blackburn with Darwen, Blackpool, Cheshire East, Cheshire West and Chester, Kingston-upon-Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire, Northeast Lincolnshire, North Lincolnshire, Stockton-on-Tees, Warrington and York.
It also covers the following counties: Cumbria, Durham, Lancashire, Lincolnshire, Northumberland and North Yorkshire.
Residential property: Southern region
Havant
Hampshire
PO9 2AL
United Kingdom
Telephone
01243 779 394
Fax
0870 7395 900
This office covers the following unitary authorities: Bath and Northeast Somerset, Bristol, North Somerset, South Gloucestershire, Bournemouth, Plymouth, Torbay, Poole, Swindon, Medway, Brighton and Hove, Portsmouth, Southampton and the Isle of Wight.
It also covers the following counties: Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly, Devon, Dorset, East Sussex, Gloucestershire, Hampshire, Kent, Somerset, Surrey, West Sussex, Wiltshire.