JFM Block & Estate Management

late one evening in early 2014, after a hard day’s work in the office, future partners, james farrar and joe mallon, toyed with the idea of launching a property management business that worked solely for home-owners. jfm was born. it was an ambitious aim, fraught with difficulty. sadly, for as long as it has existed, the leasehold system has never really worked for the customer. this ancient form of land ownership, unique to england & wales, is a relic of a by-gone era. for our part, we could see that resident management companies (rmcs) have been poorly understood and badly represented. it seems there isn’t a managing agent in the land that is looking after this client-type, without some interest in satisfying powerful housing developers and freehold investors. the needs of resident management companies, whether they were written into the lease, formed through right-to-manage, or incorporated to own a freehold, are unique. we are tired of seeing these companies marginalised and we are