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28 September 2022
From: Breaking News
![Just the beginning: First new UK leasehold property reforms become official](/upload/images/Housing%20Market%20%26%20Property%20Images/LeaseholdImage-2020-400x310.jpg)
In this guest piece, Charles Brown, content writer of LDN Properties, discusses the potential impact of the latest reform on leasehold,...
30 March 2022
From: Breaking News
![Short lease hotspots - what are the pros and cons for investors?](/upload/images/Housing%20Market%20%26%20Property%20Images/House-in-Hand-400x310.jpg)
The regions of England and Wales home to the least time remaining to renew when it comes to properties listed for...
09 March 2022
From: Breaking News
![Auction roundup – the rise in MMoA and a bumper bungalow boom](/upload/images/Site%20logos/AuctionRoundup-400x310-min.jpg)
This week’s roundup is centred around demand, with iamsold reporting a strong rise in Modern Method of Auction as market conditions...
18 February 2022
From: Breaking News
![Leasehold Reform Bill completes parliamentary journey - what now?](/upload/images/Politics%20(MPs%2C%20party%20logos%2C%20etc)/parliament400x310.png)
The Leasehold Reform (Ground Rent) Act, once it comes into effect, will prevent ground rent being charged on most new leases. Anyone...
16 February 2022
From: Breaking News
![Breakthrough! Mayo Wynne Baxter wins landmark case for holiday homeowners](/upload/images/Housing%20Market%20%26%20Property%20Images/HomeInHands-400x310.jpg)
A leading South East law firm has won a breakthrough case by helping a group of holiday home leaseholders purchase the...
11 February 2022
From: Breaking News
![From leasehold to commonhold – is reform finally in motion?](/upload/images/library/LeaseholdImage-2020-400x310.jpg)
Independent Buying Agents Haringtons reflects on the long-requested need to transform leasehold agreements and what impact this will have on the...
02 February 2022
From: Breaking News
![Why freeholders should talk to leaseholders about rooftop extensions](/upload/images/library/Summer-Rooftops-400x310.jpg)
The American writer Mark Twain’s famously observed ‘Buy land, they’re not making it anymore’. However, property investors are now finding there...
28 January 2022
From: Breaking News
![Boost for leasehold – Zurich sponsors ALEP for another year](/upload/images/Housing%20Market%20%26%20Property%20Images/PropertyTransaction-400x310.jpg)
With the leasehold scandal ongoing, and long-promised reform still some way off or incomplete, leasehold enfranchisement is arguably more important than...
06 December 2021
From: Breaking News
![Update – the latest in Berkhamsted FC’s fight to stay at its historic home](/img/default/pit.png)
At the beginning of this year, we covered the story of Berkhamsted Football Club and its battle to keep playing at...
02 July 2021
From: Breaking News
![Insight – will Covid make airspace development more or less likely?](/img/default/pit.png)
One solution that has frequently been talked about as a way of solving the housing crisis is to build upwards on...
24 May 2021
From: Breaking News
![New ground rent legislation explained - why is it so important?](/img/default/pit.png)
Being hailed as the first part of the biggest English property law reform in decades, the announcement of new ground rent...
02 April 2021
From: Breaking News
![Leasehold scandal – NLC welcomes CMA announcement on ‘onerous’ ground rents](/img/default/pit.png)
The National Leasehold Campaign (NLC) – the UK's largest and most influential campaign group on leasehold reform - has welcomed the...
22 March 2021
From: Breaking News
![Developer issues – architects willing to take legal action & homebuyer fightback](/img/default/pit.png)
A leading private wealth law firm claims that architects are increasingly prepared to take legal action against developers in a bid to...
19 March 2021
From: Breaking News
![Opinion: Why removing ground rents will have a negative impact](/img/default/pit.png)
The government’s plan to reform leasehold laws has been met with much fanfare. Under the plans, ground rents would be removed,...
24 February 2021
From: Breaking News
![Insight – how the National Leasehold Campaign took the fight to leasehold](/img/default/pit.png)
The leasehold scandal has been one of the biggest topics of debate and controversy in the property industry in recent years,...
27 January 2021
From: Breaking News
![Removing consumer choice is not a victory for leaseholders](/img/default/pit.png)
While many have cautiously welcomed the prospect of leasehold reform, Mick Platt, chief executive of Wallace Partnership Group, offers a different...
18 January 2021
From: Breaking News
![Why investment in leasehold is crucial to building safety](/img/default/pit.png)
It is no secret that the leasehold market has had its challenges in recent years. Abuses by a number of developers...
18 November 2020
From: Breaking News
![Selling a flat with a short lease](/img/default/pit.png)
Landlords and property investors with leasehold property within their portfolio, as well as their advisors, will be aware of the difficulty...
09 October 2020
From: Sponsored Content
![BTR update – Moda Living prepares for major new Birmingham project](/img/default/pit.png)
The UK’s second city could see its Build to Rent (BTR) portfolio grow further after plans were announced for a new...
21 February 2020
From: Breaking News
![SLS to provide low-cost solution for leaseholders and freeholders](/img/default/pit.png)
Leaseholders faced with the declining value of their shortening leases can now use a new service from estate agents Stanley Chelsea...
04 November 2019
From: Breaking News
![New guide for London’s leaseholders launched by Sadiq Khan](/img/default/pit.png)
A new guide designed to help London leaseholders has been released by Mayor of London Sadiq Khan, with the Mayor also...
27 February 2019
From: Breaking News
![Key things to look out for when buying a leasehold property](/img/default/pit.png)
Q&A with Rachael Donnelly, associate solicitor in the property litigation team at Blacks Solicitors LLP, on the key things to look...
10 November 2017
From: Breaking News
![The Leasehold Scandal](/img/default/pit.png)
With continued media interest in the unfair leasehold practices of some freeholders and ever-increasing queries from clients surrounding this point, I...
12 October 2017
From: Sponsored Content
![An oldie but a goodie – reversionary ground rents in 2017](/img/default/pit.png)
From the vantage point of the rostrum, in unprecedented economic times with historically low interest rates and persistently low inflation, the...
29 March 2017
From: Breaking News
![New guide to investing in a leasehold property](/img/default/pit.png)
The leasehold system is a feudal form of property ownership in England and Wales, which many investors believe is a flawed...