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London mayor Sadiq Khan launches leasehold advice portal and slams LEASE as...
London mayor Sadiq Khan has launched a new leasehold advice portal, and has condemned the taxpayer-funded Leasehold Advisory Service as “unfit for purpose”. He also backed “wholesale reform of...
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Housebuilders WILL benefit from commonhold, Hopton Build developer tells Law...
By Harry Scoffin The housebuilder owner of Hopton Build who is completing a commonhold scheme in Yorkshire told the Law Commission last week that the tenure works and will benefit housebuilders....
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Estate Agent Today supports LKP’s campaign to introduce commonhold
The trade news website Estate Agent Today has come out in favour of LKP’s campaign to introduce commonhold. It is the latest endorsement of a campaign to reinvigorate commonhold, which has been on the...
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Tory maverick MP Crispin Blunt is urged to back Help To Buy ONLY on commonhold
By Harry Scoffin Conservative MP Crispin Blunt is being urged to throw his weight behind an LKP-backed proposal to make state support for developers contingent on selling ALL new-build flats as...
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Exclusive: Commonhold can only work if ground rents are banned, said Ministry...
By Harry Scoffin As government stands ready to issue its verdict on the Communities Select Committee report and the findings of the public consultation from November, Leasehold Knowledge Partnership...
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Taylor Wimpey’s Pete Redfern tells FT ‘we got it wrong on ground rents’
By Harry Scoffin Pete Redfern, the chief executive of Taylor Wimpey, this week told the Financial Times that his company “got it wrong” on leaseholds. The newspaper reports that between 2007 and 2011,...
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‘The genie is out of the bottle,’ three lawyers solemnly explain to industry...
By Harry Scoffin The Estates Gazette has recently provided insight into the thinking of the obfuscators of the leasehold sector. The opinion piece makes delicious reading for leasehold campaigners and...
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ARMA on commonhold: Falling leasehold values. Zombie apartment blocks. Plenty...
Nigel Glen, CEO of ARMA, has his doubts about commonhold, but thinks that it would actually work well for professional managing agents … helping clueless directors It does not matter who makes the...
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Here’s commonhold, but it won’t be mandatory. Shula Rich recalls the...
Shula Rich is a veteran leasehold reformer, and vice chair of the Federation of Private Residents’ Association, who runs a drop-in advice service for leaseholders in Brighton. She was on the Lord...
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Get commonhold done, London Assembly tells government
The assembly’s housing committee urges London mayor Sadiq Khan not to wait for reforms: … Stand up to developers;… Insist new sites have leaseholders’ resident management companies; … Ensure leases are...
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Beware ‘MacDUFF’ Scottish consumer-friendly land laws, say freeholders in...
Our English leasehold laws are much better … but then they go on to cite a Scottish law that doesn’t actually exist The Tchenguiz Family Trust, Long Harbour and Wallace Estates believe the empowerment...
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Government announces Commonhold Council to prevent ‘hidden costs’ and ‘the...
The following press release issued today by MHCLG: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/expert-group-to-help-homeowners-gain-more-control-over-their-homes Homeowners are set to benefit from greater...
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The Leasehold Reform (Ground Rent) Bill: opportunities and challenges
Or, how to prevent this important reform from being nobbled by monetisers in the sector … Liam Spender is a Trustee of the Leasehold Knowledge Partnership. Personally affected by the cladding scandal,...
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Freeholders and housebuilders have plucked the leasehold golden goose, and...
The leasehold sector gathered for the Westminster Legal Policy Forum today to pool views on the government’s leasehold reforms and the introduction of a revived commonhold. Sir Peter Bottomley MP,...
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Interview with Lord Greenhalgh: I don’t think the leasehold reforms will be...
I support commonhold, but I would not make it mandatory Local government should have been put in charge of implementation over building safety, not policy-makers in Whitehall Errors were made in...
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Our parliamentary briefing on the Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill
10 December 2023 Briefing Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill To members of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on leasehold and commonhold reform The Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill is the result of...
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Freeholders cried crocodile tears for old ladies and said the pensions sector...
Freeholders cried crocodile tears for old ladies and said the pensions sector would be destabilised, says former housing minister While Michael Gove warned of “silver-tongued” and expensive lawyers...
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Is Gove an empty vessel making the loudest noise? asks Samantha Dixon. And...
Labour MP for Chester Samantha Dixon MBE welcomed the Bill, but questioned whether it would improve conditions for leaseholders. “This Bill is an opportunity to rebalance the scales in favour of...
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