Service Charges. Sorted.
We’re the UK specialists in Service Charge certification.
Are you a commercial landlord?
Most modern leases mean
you’re probably required to
provide Service Charge accounts.
If you manage residential premises
with five or more units,
you need to provide them by law.
Welcome to JJCL
We’re the UK’s leading Service Charge specialists.
We provide landlords and tenants with Service Charge information in a way that’s clear and RICS-compliant.
You can use us to:
prepare accounts in line with the RICS Code of Practice
reduce disputes by making sure accounts are on time
reconcile Service Charges quickly and fairly
check every invoice is in the right category.
Our team come from property backgrounds. This means we understand the pressures of modern surveying, giving a first-class service to clients and tenants.
We are fully independent and offer impartial, expert advice on every aspect of Service Charge raising and recovery.
Three levels of certification
Choose from three straightforward Service Charge packages:
1. Expenditure Certification
Our most popular option: we issue an overall Property Expenditure Certificate.
It includes:
a full review of expenditure incurred in the Service Charge year
checking every invoice has been properly allocated
advice on miscoding journals
accruals for missing expenditure periods
preparation of variance-to-budget information.
See Expenditure Certification fees
2. Expenditure & Tenant Certification
Everything offered above PLUS an individual tenant year-end pack. We can issue this to the landlord’s representative, along with a balance demand.
Package 2 also includes full reviews of:
your tenants’ charges, to make sure they’re correct on each certificate
your tenants’ leases, making sure all service charge provisions are kept to
Service Charge cap provisions in the leases, including RPI calculations.
See Expenditure & Tenant Certification fees
3. End-to-end Service Charge Accounts
The ‘gold level’ service. We will look after the entire process — from helping to agree the Service Charge budget through to year-end reconciliation. This includes:
budget preparation
calculating the on-account demands
year-end reviews (as with packages 1 and 2)
full cash reconciliations
preparing year-end packs for your tenants.
And if you set up remote access to your system, we can even post all the journals or year-end accruals and raise tenants’ balancing charges.
And Lease Verification, too
Are you sure your database is being updated correctly?
Would you like an independent third-party to check on your behalf?
And are you sure you’re billing the right rent, Service Charge and insurances?
JJJCL provide a comprehensive service, checking property-related documents to make sure your database is correct.
The documents are independently verified twice, preventing charging errors in future.
Documents we’ll check for you will include:
Commercial leases
Residential leases, both long and shorter ASTs
Rent review memorandum
Assignment documents
Surrender documents
Deeds of variation.
Our checks will give you peace of mind.