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What does Manager burden mean?
In Scottish property practice, a manager burden is a mechanism used to control estate management in a development. Defined in section 63 of the Title Conditions (Scotland) Act 2003, it is a type of real burden registered against related properties (units) that empowers a named holder (typically the developer) to act as manager (often called a property factor), appoint another person as manager and dismiss any manager. These powers are exercisable only while the holder continues to own at least one of the related properties. Unless a statutory exception applies, the burden will usually be extinguished five years after the date of registration.
Manager burdens are commonly used on new-build housing estates and in flatted developments to provide short-term control of common parts, services and cost recovery during the sales phase. Their expiry means longer-term management should pass to owners’ arrangements (for example, an owners’ association or management company) once the developer exits.
Jurisdiction: this is a Scots law concept. There is no direct equivalent in England and Wales, Northern Ireland or Ireland, where estate management is instead structured through leases, freehold covenants, rentcharges or management company constitutions (and, in Ireland, the Multi-Unit Developments Act 2011).
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