Your block-management software runs the service-charge accounts, the works and the maintenance. EstateGuard does the other half: the Building Safety Act duties you carry as Accountable Person, the leasehold-reform transparency that keeps your blocks, and a Trust Mark that shows leaseholders and RMC directors you are BSA-ready and properly protected. Built for residential block and leasehold managing agents under more legal pressure than ever.
Residential block and leasehold management has been transformed by the Building Safety Act 2022 and the Leasehold & Freehold Reform Act 2024 — on top of long-standing duties around consultation, client money and redress. The obligations are concrete, several carry personal criminal liability, and leaseholders now have more power than ever to move their blocks elsewhere if they lose confidence in you.
If you act as the Accountable Person for a higher-risk building, you must register it, hold and maintain a safety case demonstrating the building risks are being managed, and keep the "golden thread" of building-safety information. Failures can be criminal offences — this is the highest-stakes duty in the sector.
The reforms push hard on standardised, transparent service-charge demands and clearer information for leaseholders. Get your transparency in order, or risk leaseholders exercising the Right to Manage and taking blocks off your books.
Section 20 consultation before qualifying works, mandatory Client Money Protection for the service-charge funds you hold, and membership of a government-approved redress scheme — the established duties that underpin trust, all of which leaseholders can check.
The same platform that scans, generates and trains across the Friam family — set up for the Building Safety Act duties, the leasehold-reform transparency, and the leaseholder-trust signal your block-management software doesn't own.
A practical readiness pathway for Accountable Person duties on higher-risk buildings — registration, the safety case, and the golden thread of building-safety information — so the highest-stakes obligation you carry is structured, evidenced and defensible rather than a source of personal risk.
Tools to get ahead of the Leasehold & Freehold Reform Act 2024 — clearer, more standardised service-charge information for leaseholders — so you keep your blocks instead of losing them to a Right to Manage triggered by a transparency gap.
We scan your public-facing website for the disclosures the law requires — your Client Money Protection cover and your redress-scheme membership — and flag what's missing or out of date, the way a leaseholder or regulator would check it.
Section 20 consultation support for qualifying works, plus the policies a managing agent must carry — complaints, data protection for leaseholder data, health & safety and fire safety — generated to your firm's profile, e-signed with an audit trail, and kept current as the rules move.
A public verification page and embeddable badge leaseholders and RMC directors can click — showing you are BSA-ready, CMP-protected, redress-registered and transparent. The reassurance that wins and keeps instructions, that your management software doesn't surface.
A short, quiz-checked training pathway across the Building Safety Act, leasehold reform and the core duties of a managing agent — with certificates and team progress, so your people can demonstrate they understand the obligations the firm now carries.
EstateGuard is deliberately not a block-management or service-charge accounting system — the tools that run your accounts, works orders and maintenance own the daily operation, and we don't compete with them. We sit alongside whatever you use, as the building-safety-and-leasehold-compliance layer plus the leaseholder-facing trust signal those tools don't provide. Built for residential block and leasehold managing agents who now carry Building Safety Act duties and leasehold-reform obligations without a dedicated compliance officer.
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EstateGuard provides compliance tools and content; it is not the Building Safety Regulator and does not provide legal advice. Building safety is a high-stakes legal duty carrying personal criminal liability: the readiness pathways, disclosure scan, generated policies and training are designed to support and evidence your compliance with the Building Safety Act 2022, the Leasehold & Freehold Reform Act 2024 and your other obligations — they support, but do not replace, the managing agent's and Accountable Person's own legal responsibility for the safety of buildings and the people in them.