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New data from Hamptons shows a massive rise in service charges in one year alone ...
The commercial property market has performed well in recent years, although trends differ from inner city and local markets, reports Dutton Gregory Solicitors.  ...
The commercial property sector in England is in the midst of a seismic shift propelled by the introduction of stringent minimum energy efficiency standards (MEES) in April. It is no doubt that the industry is grappling with the implications of ...
Leaseholders facing the prospect of huge bills to remove unsafe cladding will be offered valuable insights into the possible implications of the Building Safety Act at a free webinar hosted by Bishop & Sewell. ...
Since the devastating tragedy of the Grenfell tower fire in 2017, cladding issues have been highlighted across thousands of properties in the UK. An investigation of the fire that took the lives of 72 people and had devastating effects on ...
In this guest piece, Charles Brown, content writer of LDN Properties, discusses the potential impact of the latest reform on leasehold, and what it could mean for property investments going forward. ...
In this guest piece, Hugh Wigzell, senior associate at Farrer & Co, lists three issues that property buyers and investors should watch out for when purchasing a new build in London. ...
The Leasehold Reform (Ground Rent) Act, once it comes into effect, will prevent ground rent being charged on most new leases. ...
A leading South East law firm has won a breakthrough case by helping a group of holiday home leaseholders purchase the freehold of their properties. ...
Independent Buying Agents Haringtons reflects on the long-requested need to transform leasehold agreements and what impact this will have on the property sector. ...
Prime Secure’s Fire Safety division has launched the UK’s first affordable wireless common fire alarm system, V-Fire, which removes the need for expensive waking watch fire marshals in high-rise buildings with flammable cladding. ...
The American writer Mark Twain’s famously observed ‘Buy land, they’re not making it anymore’. However, property investors are now finding there is a way around the lack of development land by looking skywards. ...
On Tuesday, the government launched a six-week consultation on proposals to make it easier and cheaper for leaseholders to purchase the freehold of their building, in the latest win for campaigners calling for leasehold reform. ...
Just one in seven (15%) landlords surveyed have no knowledge of the upcoming legislative changes to the Energy Performance Certificate (EPC), according to new research from Shawbrook Bank. ...
With the leasehold scandal ongoing, and long-promised reform still some way off or incomplete, leasehold enfranchisement is arguably more important than ever. ...
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