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Does a home survey apply GOV.UK’s £250 and £100 leaseholder consultation figures?

No. GOV.UK’s leasehold page says you have a right to be consulted if you would pay more than £250 for planned work, or more than £100 a year for work and services lasting more than 12 months. That process is the Section 20 consultation. A condition rating does not know the contract price, so it cannot say either figure has been reached.

Last reviewed 24 October 2026. Written for buyers in England and Wales unless this answer says otherwise. No named surveyor has signed this page. It is general guidance, not a report on your house, and not legal advice.

What is the fuller explanation?

The survey can say the roof or the lift looks serious. It cannot add up the leaseholders’ shares or start the landlord’s timetable. GOV.UK also says there is a limit on what you have to pay if you were not consulted properly, and tells you to ask the Leasehold Advisory Service rather than inventing the outcome. This page does not invent that outcome either.

Ask the solicitor for any notice already served and for the accounts. A rating 3 with no notice is a future bill that may not have been consulted on. A notice with no rating is a legal paper the survey may never have seen. Keep them together in the file and apart in your head. There is no RICS price for the works.

What should you ask your surveyor?

  • Which defects look as if they could become shared works?
  • Did you see any notice, scaffold or consultation paper?
  • Are you applying a cash threshold? You should not be.

What are the typical next steps?

  1. Read the current GOV.UK leasehold page rather than a forum’s version of the figures.
  2. Ask the solicitor whether a Section 20 notice has been served.
  3. Do not reply to a consultation with the survey PDF and nothing else.

Costs vary with the building and with who you instruct. Where this page does not cite a published figure, ask the surveyor, a relevant specialist, or your solicitor for a written quote. Do not treat a forum average as the price.

Also asked about this

If the works will cost you £200, does the survey still matter?

Yes. The rating is about condition. The £250 figure is about consultation. One does not cancel the other.

Does the £100 figure apply to a one-off roof job?

GOV.UK states £100 a year for work and services lasting more than 12 months, and £250 for planned work. Ask the solicitor which, if either, fits this bill.

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