Commonhold

Freeholders and housebuilders have plucked the leasehold golden goose, and now the path is clear for commonhold

The Leasehold Reform (Ground Rent) Bill: opportunities and challenges

Government announces Commonhold Council to prevent ‘hidden costs’ and ‘the egregious practices currently seen in some leaseholds’

Beware ‘MacDUFF’ Scottish consumer-friendly land laws, say freeholders in lobbying report to save their incomes

Get commonhold done, London Assembly tells government

Here’s commonhold, but it won’t be mandatory. Shula Rich recalls the compromises behind the 2002 Act

ARMA on commonhold: Falling leasehold values. Zombie apartment blocks. Plenty of scrapping. Lack of interest. But good business for professional managers …

‘The genie is out of the bottle,’ three lawyers solemnly explain to industry insiders in Estates Gazette

Taylor Wimpey’s Pete Redfern tells FT ‘we got it wrong on ground rents’

Exclusive: Commonhold can only work if ground rents are banned, said Ministry of Justice – in 2009!

Tory maverick MP Crispin Blunt is urged to back Help To Buy ONLY on commonhold

Estate Agent Today supports LKP’s campaign to introduce commonhold

Housebuilders WILL benefit from commonhold, Hopton Build developer tells Law Commission

London mayor Sadiq Khan launches leasehold advice portal and slams LEASE as ‘unfit for purpose’

Leaseholders and the sector react to Law Commission reforms to commonhold and right to manage

Lawyers to Communities Select Committee: Stop ‘sticking plaster reforms’. End ‘draconian’ forfeiture. £10 ground rents a ‘mistake’. Make legal costs fair to leaseholders. Commonhold failed because developers make money out of leasehold …

Law Commission seminars on commonhold and RTM launched

LKP persuades government to allow commonhold tenure on Help To Buy

LKP praises Law Commission over commonhold in Telegraph

‘The time is right for commonhold,’ announces Law Commission. (Pity the government doesn’t agree …)

For God’s sake! Now it emerges £8.3 billion Help To Buy scheme – that turned house builder executives into multi-millionaires – is not available on commonhold properties!

Commonhold is back! House builder offers flats without leasehold tenancies

Leasehold needs to stop being a means to produce ‘ever-increasing profits’, says Conveyancing Association

LKP guidance for responding to the government consultation on tackling unfair practices in the leasehold market

Urban Owners finds 41% of leaseholders have not had lease terms explained by solicitors

Commons Library’s excellent resume of leasehold problems will give MPs plenty of ideas for reform

Spire View, in Pickering, shows a commonhold future with no leases at all, says Sunday Times

Time to ‘get political about leasehold’, says the Financial Times

Philip Rainey QC: Reform of the law is a duty (and for landlord and tenant law it is overdue)

CML: Will mortgage lenders lend on commonhold? No. Yes. Maybe … er

Welcome to Spire View, our commonhold paradise …

Commonhold or leasehold, it still needs managing

For first time in 14 years, Westminster hears more of commonhold