Law Commission

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

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

Officials fail to stop LKP publishing legal opinions on flawed reform of Recognised Tenants’ Associations (RTAs)

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

Law Commission doesn’t expect leasehold reform before 2020

Is Law Commission wobbly over 25% commercial exclusion to collective enfranchisement? (Let’s hope so)

Law Commission meets leaseholders in Manchester

Anger at Law Commission meetings in offices of freeholders’ solicitors

Pemberton Greenish worker tells Cadogan Estate bigwig: you’re a c***t!

Law Commission: no problem employing barrister Justin Bates to reform right to manage, while he sets about stuffing another one …

Law Commissioner wants to meet YOU: November 3

Law Commission consultation on enfranchisement

Right to Manage added to the ever growing list of leasehold reforms

Will Law Commission bring in the ‘seismic changes’ that leasehold needs?

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

Enfranchisement, commonhold and managing agent regulation are first up for the Law Commission

APPG, December 6: Park home banditry; Law Commission; Planners barring leasehold houses; London deputy mayor; gargantuan Grenfell bills for leaseholders