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Commonhold

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

Category: Latest News, News, ParliamentTag: APPG, Baroness Claire Fox of Buckley, Boris Johnson, Cath Williams, Charles Roe, Co-propriétaires, Commonhold, Dr Jonathan Evans, Harry Scoffin, Justin Madders MP, Katherine O'Riordan, Katie Kendrick, Law Commission, Leasehold Reform (Ground Rent) Bill, Liam Spender, Lord Blencathra, Lord Greenhalgh, Lord Truscott, Lord Young of Cookham, Louie Burns, Martin Boyd, Martina Lees, Meg Hillier MP, Michael Gove, Professor Nick Hopkins, UK Finance

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

Category: Latest News, News, ParliamentTag: 25% rule, Benefits to bricks, Boris Johnson, CapX, Centrepoint, Commonhold, Crosby Textor, David Canzini, Eddie Hughes MP, Grenfell, Harry Scoffin, Leasehold enfranchisement, Lisa Nandy, London Playbook, Margaret Thatcher, Matthew Pennycook MP, Michael Gove, Mixed-use sites, Neil Gerrard, Right to Buy, Sir Lynton Crosby, Sir Peter Bottomley, Tulip Siddiq MP

Privatising housing estates: what’s the problem?

Category: Fleecehold, Latest News, NewsTag: Commonhold, Fleecehold, Hampstead Garden Suburb, Helen Goodman MP, Professor Susan Bright, Rentcharge, Steinbeck Grange, Welsh Government

Time for leaseholders in mixed-use sites to take control

Category: Charter Quay, Latest News, NewsTag: 25% rule, Canary Riverside, Charter Quay, Commonhold, Harry Scoffin, John Christodoulou, Law Commission, Lord Greenhalgh, Lord Young of Cookham, Martin Boyd, Mixed-use sites, Shared ownership, Sir Ed Davey, West India Quay, Yianis Group

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

Category: Communities Select Committee, Latest News, NewsTag: Adriatic Land, ARMA, Building Safety Bill, Building safety reform, Building safety regulator, Charter Quay, Commonhold, Dame Judith Hackitt, Harry Scoffin, Homeground Management Limited, Law Commission, Lord Greenhalgh, Martin Boyd, New Festival Quarter, Nigel Glen, Recognised Residents' Association, Richard Silva

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

Category: Cladding scandal, Latest News, NewsTag: Celestia development, Cladding scandal, Commonhold, Communities Select Committee, Covid-19, David Melding, Harry Scoffin, Inside Housing, Jenny Rathbone, Julie James, Martina Lees, MHCLG, Mike Hedges, Rishi Sunak, Sunday Times, Victoria Wharf, Welsh Government, Welsh Parliament

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

Category: Latest News, Law Commission, NewsTag: Commonhold, Enfranchisement, Ground rents, Informal lease extension, Law Commission, Lease extension, MHCLG, Peppercorn ground rents, Professor Nick Hopkins, Right to manage, Strata title

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

Category: Cladding scandal, Latest News, NewsTag: Building safety reform, Building safety regulator, Cladding scandal, Commonhold, Dame Judith Hackitt, Grenfell cladding, Harry Scoffin, James Brokenshire, James Brokenshire MP, Jeremy Pocklington, London Assembly, London City Hall, Manchester Cladiators, Martin Boyd, Melanie Dawes, Natalie Elphicke MP, New Homes Ombudsman, Reserve fund, Rishi Sunak, Robert Jenrick, UKCAG

Get commonhold done, London Assembly tells government

Category: Commonhold, HomeSlider, Latest News, London Assembly, NewsTag: Andrew Boff, CMA, Commonhold, Communities Select Committee, Competition and Markets Authority, Covid-19, Harry Scoffin, Leonie Cooper, London Assembly, London City Hall, London mayor, Martin Boyd, MHCLG, Nicky Gavron, Open Data Institute, Sadiq Khan, Sebastian O’Kelly, Sian Berry, Tony Devenish, Unmesh Desai

Shula Rich commonhold

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

Category: Commonhold, FPRA, Latest News, NewsTag: 2002 Act, Commonhold, Harry Scoffin, Lord Falconer, Shula Rich, Westminster Legal Policy Forum

Nigel Glen commonhold

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

Category: ARMA, Commonhold, Latest News, NewsTag: ARMA, Australia, Commonhold, Harry Scoffin, Law Commission, Nigel Glen, Peter Sugarman, Westminster Legal Policy Forum

Leasehold Houses

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

Category: Latest News, News, PressTag: Commonhold, Harry Scoffin, Help To Buy, Leasehold houses

Sheikh Mohammed Commonhold

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

Category: Latest News, NewsTag: Commonhold, Dubai, Harry Scoffin, Strata title

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

Category: Latest News, Local authority leasehold, NewsTag: Andrew Wood, Canary Riverside, Commonhold, Harry Scoffin, John Christodoulou, Tower Hamlets, West India Quay

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

Category: Latest News, News, ParliamentTag: Commonhold, Ground rents, Harry Scoffin, John Healey, John Healey MP, Robert Jenrick, Sir Peter Bottomley

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

Category: Latest News, NewsTag: ARMA, Cassandra Zanelli, Commonhold, Ground rents, Harry Scoffin, Long Harbour, Wales

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

Category: Latest News, NewsTag: Commonhold, Crispin Blunt MP, Harry Scoffin, Help To Buy, Law Commission, Professor Nick Hopkins

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

Category: Commonhold, Communities Select Committee, Latest News, NewsTag: 25% rule, Commonhold, Communities Select Committee, Ground rents, Harry Scoffin, Law Commission, leasehold and commonhold reform, leasehold reform, Mixed-use sites

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

Category: Commonhold, Latest News, NewsTag: Commonhold, Ground rents, Harry Scoffin, Ministry of Justice

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

Category: Commonhold, Latest News, News, ParliamentTag: Commonhold, Crispin Blunt MP, Harry Scoffin, Help To Buy

Estate Agent Today supports LKP’s campaign to introduce commonhold

Category: Commonhold, Latest News, News, PressTag: Commonhold, Estate Agent Today

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

Category: Latest News, News, PressTag: BBC, Commonhold, Harry Scoffin, Leasehold houses

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

Category: Commonhold, Latest News, Law Commission, NewsTag: Commonhold, Harry Scoffin, Law Commission, Stewart Moxon

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

Category: Commonhold, Latest News, Law Commission, News, RTMTag: Commonhold, Law Commission, Right to manage, Shula Rich

LKP persuades government to allow commonhold tenure on Help To Buy

Category: Commonhold, Latest News, NewsTag: Commonhold, Help To Buy, Hopton Build, Stewart Moxon

LKP praises Law Commission over commonhold in Telegraph

Category: Commonhold, Latest News, News, PressTag: Commonhold, Sir Peter Bottomley, The Daily Telegraph

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

Category: Commonhold, Latest News, Law Commission, NewsTag: Commonhold, Law Commission, Professor Nick Hopkins

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!

Category: Commonhold, Latest News, News, PersimmonTag: Commonhold, David Jenkinson, Help To Buy, Hopton Build, Jeff Fairburn, Stewart Moxon

Commonhold is back! House builder offers flats without leasehold tenancies

Category: Commonhold, Latest News, NewsTag: Commonhold, Hopton Build, Spire View, Stewart Moxon

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

Category: Latest News, Law Commission, NewsTag: Commonhold, Law Commission, Professor Nick Hopkins

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

Category: Commonhold, Conveyancing Association, Latest News, NewsTag: Commonhold, Conveyancing Association, Eddie Goldsmith

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

Category: Commonhold, Latest News, NewsTag: Commonhold, Steve Wylie, Urban Owners

Spire View commonhold

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

Category: Commonhold, HomeSlider, Latest News, News, NewsSlider, PressTag: Commonhold, Gavin Barwell, Pickering, RBS, Sajid Javid, Spire View

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