# Administration charge

A charge a leaseholder pays under the lease for something specific to them, such as a consent, providing information or documents, paying late or breaching the lease, rather than for running the building.

Also called: admin charge, variable administration charge.

Examples include a fee for registering a sale or a sub-letting, a fee for answering a buyer's solicitor's questions, interest on late payment, and the cost of chasing a breach of the lease.

## The rules

- **The lease must allow it.** If the lease doesn't provide for a charge, you can't make it.
- **It must be reasonable** if it isn't a fixed amount in the lease (Sch 11 para 2).
- **The demand needs its own summary of rights**: the administration-charge version, not the service-charge one (Sch 11 para 4).
- **Leaseholders can challenge it** at the [First-tier Tribunal](https://runyourblock.co.uk/glossary/first-tier-tribunal) (para 5).

## Good practice

Publish your fees (for example for sale packs and registering notices) so leaseholders and conveyancers know them in advance. Changes to the law under the Leasehold and Freehold Reform Act 2024 will require published schedules of administration charges once in force.

## Related terms

- [Service charge](https://runyourblock.co.uk/glossary/service-charge)
- [Summary of rights and obligations](https://runyourblock.co.uk/glossary/summary-of-rights-and-obligations)
- [Assignment](https://runyourblock.co.uk/glossary/assignment)
- [First-tier Tribunal (Property Chamber)](https://runyourblock.co.uk/glossary/first-tier-tribunal)

## Sources

- [Commonhold and Leasehold Reform Act 2002, Schedule 11](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2002/15/schedule/11)
- [Administration Charges (Summary of Rights and Obligations) (England) Regulations 2007](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2007/1258/regulation/2)

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Updated 22 October 2026. Source: https://runyourblock.co.uk/glossary/administration-charge