The main service for members is our CostMINDER product, which enables you to look at your rent, rates, service charge and building insurance with a view to making savings and stopping them rising unfairly.

Many large multiples employ Surveyors full-time to monitor and reduce their rent, rates, service charge and building insurance. A full time Surveyor would cost £40000+ a year.

Others, with high value properties, employ Surveyors on a "success" basis. Some cases are successful and high fees running in to £000's are paid, and these subsidise the "unsuccessful" cases for the Surveyors.

95% of businesses are too small to have a full time Surveyor and also do not have properties where the value is high enough for the Surveyors to work on a "success basis". So their only alternative is employing a Surveyor on an hourly rate.

Typically a Surveyor would charge £150 an hour or more and over a year it would take most Surveyors a minimum of 7 hours to keep tabs on someones rent, rates, service charge and building insurance with a view to agreeing reductions.

So the alternative cost of our CostMINDER product would be more than £1000 a year for all businesses. Moreover CostMINDER has many databases than can only be accessed using CostMINDER and nowhereelse.

Other services included in our annual membership are

Relocation. Again the alternative would be using a Surveyor at £150 per hour. However most Surveyors have a conflict of interest in finding properties for clients. Furthermore our Relocation tool contains data that is not available elsewhere

Forums. To ask a professional question will cost you money and, again, a Surveyor will charge you £150+ an hour. There is no "database" of questions and answers on property cost issues outside of LeaseholdersUnited.

CapitalValue/RentalValue. The only alternative to our "£10 estimates" is a full valuation carried out by a Surveyor that will often cost you £500.

Our estimate that it would cost you £1000+ to get LeaseholdersUnited's services elsewhere is, then, a very conservative one!