Law Commission

Platinum Skies: £63,000 loss on £130,000 shared ownership retirement flat after new owner died 25 days after moving in

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

As new ground rents ban gets Queen’s assent, LKP urges leaseholders to echo calls to action in its submission to government consultation on the next reforms …

Time for leaseholders in mixed-use sites to take control

Leaseholders defeat landlord trying to dodge consultation over a section 20 dispute in Court of Appeal

Barrister Justin Bates torpedoes another RTM for Moskovitz / Gurvits: leaseholders face £100,000 bills

Should I extend my lease now or wait for government reforms?

Government announces ban on new ground rents now, THEN reform leasehold (which is what LKP recommended)

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

Housing Ombudsman names and shames social landlords ‘consistently wrong’ with leaseholders and shared owners

Report from Tchenguiz Family Trust, Long Harbour and Wallace Estates seeks to side-line leasehold reforms by fear-mongering over fire safety

Louie Burns’ ‘passion for justice’ praised in Commons by Justin Madders MP

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

Pincher defends absent Jenrick in bad tempered Commons clash over Richard Desmond £1bn planning scandal

An open letter to Robert Jenrick: the costs of delayed leasehold reform

The Times reports criticisms of Jenrick’s two-storey planning windfall to what he called ‘egregious’ freeholders

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

Robert Jenrick: Why give freeholders such a whopping planning windfall over two new storeys rule, like this site in Newark?

No ‘clarity or concern’ over Law Commission proposals on enfranchisement reform, says ground rent fund Time Investments

Law Commission lost its way with human rights for offshore hedge funds, says BBC’s Paul Lewis

If you want to reform enfranchisement push government hard, is message of Law Commission

Marriage value a bogus profit in the £2.5bn enfranchisement racket, LKP trustee Dean Buckner tells BBC

Law Commission enfranchisement valuation models delayed for second time as election ‘purdah’ rules kick in

Reform laws on track for ‘second half of 2020’, Martin Boyd tells Property Week

What if Berkeley had built Charter Quay as commonhold? Site visit by officials and Law Commission

Every other major economy has moved away from residential leasehold so why not us, asks shadow housing minister Sarah Jones

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

48 hours to go: LKP advice on responding to the Law Commission consultation on commonhold

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 welcomes Law Commission work on right to manage

Scilly Isles leaseholders rebel against Prince Charles’s ‘feudal’ Duchy of Cornwall, in Law Commission evidence