Commonhold

Interview with Lord Greenhalgh: I don’t think the leasehold reforms will be in the King’s Speech

Greenhalgh’s farewell to APPG: ‘I have a commonhold flat and there is nothing to fear its widespread adoption to replace leasehold’

Labour’s Lisa Nandy taunts Tories over ‘feudal’ leaseholds. Meanwhile, PM channels Thatcher to revive enfranchisement plans

Privatising housing estates: what’s the problem?

Time for leaseholders in mixed-use sites to take control

Dame Judith Hackitt’s uninterest in leasehold tenure is like ‘wanting to build cars with no idea how they are driven’, says LKP

England’s cladding leaseholders could end up with equity stripped out of their homes, warns Welsh minister

Law Commission reports offer blueprint to demolish monetising landlordism in residential leasehold

Top civil servant warns Robert Jenrick over £1bn cladding bailout … promises post-Grenfell blame game won’t happen again

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 …

Taxpayers funding two leasehold houses a day in 2019 through Help To Buy … despite government saying THREE times they should be banned

Feudal Dubai cracks down on bloated service charges in flats … and puts added oomph in commonhold

Tory trailblazers get Tower Hamlets to come out for commonhold in London first

Don’t forget about 10 million voters, Bottomley tells the government … which omitted leasehold reform from the Queen’s speech

Welsh policymakers back monetary ground rents while pondering ‘compulsory commonhold’

Seize ‘golden opportunity’ offered by Help To Buy 2021 to end taxpayer-funded spread of toxic leasehold, urges Tory MP

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

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

Leasehold first-time buyers trapped in leasehold homes with £800 ground rents, says BBC

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

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

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

Law Commission sets out how it hopes to create a better deal for leaseholders – and look at alternatives

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

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