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Mainstay, a residential property management company that is part of the FirstPort group, has strengthened its property portfolio by taking on...

In this guest piece, Charles Brown, content writer of LDN Properties, discusses the potential impact of the latest reform on leasehold,...

The regions of England and Wales home to the least time remaining to renew when it comes to properties listed for...

This week’s roundup is centred around demand, with iamsold reporting a strong rise in Modern Method of Auction as market conditions...

The Leasehold Reform (Ground Rent) Act, once it comes into effect, will prevent ground rent being charged on most new leases. Anyone...

A leading South East law firm has won a breakthrough case by helping a group of holiday home leaseholders purchase the...

Independent Buying Agents Haringtons reflects on the long-requested need to transform leasehold agreements and what impact this will have on the...

The American writer Mark Twain’s famously observed ‘Buy land, they’re not making it anymore’. However, property investors are now finding there...

With the leasehold scandal ongoing, and long-promised reform still some way off or incomplete, leasehold enfranchisement is arguably more important than...

At the beginning of this year, we covered the story of Berkhamsted Football Club and its battle to keep playing at...

One solution that has frequently been talked about as a way of solving the housing crisis is to build upwards on...

Being hailed as the first part of the biggest English property law reform in decades, the announcement of new ground rent...

The National Leasehold Campaign (NLC) – the UK's largest and most influential campaign group on leasehold reform - has welcomed the...

A leading private wealth law firm claims that architects are increasingly prepared to take legal action against developers in a bid to...

The government’s plan to reform leasehold laws has been met with much fanfare. Under the plans, ground rents would be removed,...

The leasehold scandal has been one of the biggest topics of debate and controversy in the property industry in recent years,...

While many have cautiously welcomed the prospect of leasehold reform, Mick Platt, chief executive of Wallace Partnership Group, offers a different...

It is no secret that the leasehold market has had its challenges in recent years. Abuses by a number of developers...

Landlords and property investors with leasehold property within their portfolio, as well as their advisors, will be aware of the difficulty...

The UK’s second city could see its Build to Rent (BTR) portfolio grow further after plans were announced for a new...

Leaseholders faced with the declining value of their shortening leases can now use a new service from estate agents Stanley Chelsea...

A new guide designed to help London leaseholders has been released by Mayor of London Sadiq Khan, with the Mayor also...

Q&A with Rachael Donnelly, associate solicitor in the property litigation team at Blacks Solicitors LLP, on the key things to look...

With continued media interest in the unfair leasehold practices of some freeholders and ever-increasing queries from clients surrounding this point, I...

From the vantage point of the rostrum, in unprecedented economic times with historically low interest rates and persistently low inflation, the...

The leasehold system is a feudal form of property ownership in England and Wales, which many investors believe is a flawed...

Those investing in newly-built leasehold flats, marketed as ‘virtual freehold’ properties with 999-year leases, are in danger of losing their capital...