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The survey investigated how the new Limited Liability Housing Companies Act 2010 (Asunto-osakeyhtiölaki) functioned in Finland, what its impact had been and how it had been implemented. Separate surveys were conducted for shareholders of limited liability housing companies, members of governing boards, property managers and estate agents. This dataset contains the responses of property managers. Relating to management, the respondents were asked about the number of members in and frequency of meeting of the boards of their client companies, average time spent on a meeting, change in the time spent on meetings after 2010, division of labour within the boards, documents drawn up to guide the work of the boards, composition of the boards, and remuneration received by board members. Increase in demand for property management services was charted as well as documents in which the duties of the property manager had been set out by client companies, increase in the workload of the property manager, improvement in the management of client companies, increase in training provided for property managers, and the need for allowing a property management company to assume the tasks of a property manager. Concerning auditing, topics included person/people responsible for financial/performance audit in client companies, differences in opinions about the duties of a performance auditor, and benefit of the performance audit to client companies. Views were charted on information and communication by client companies, for instance, by asking whether invitations to meetings were sent out early enough, whether board members and chair answered shareholders' questions in the meetings, and whether shareholders were notified early enough about important decisions and plans made by the board. Further questions charting communication probed improvement/decline in communication by the board and property manager to shareholders after 2010, the property management company's means of...