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Last weekend a story by The Sunday Times’ Deputy Political Editor indicated that the Government is proposing implementing a £250 cap...

The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has secured agreements from eight freeholders to remove “problematic ground rent” terms from leases. The competition...

HOP (the Home Owner’s Passport) has released its upgraded material information report to support agents with Trading Standards compliance. The list of...

Thousands more leaseholders are expected to see ground rents cut and some may even receive refunds. It forms part of the Competition...

Despite all the controversy surrounding it in recent years, and various government attempts to address the leasehold scandal, new research from...

Boris Johnson has promised a review of the mortgage market and housing benefit rules to help more people to get on...

You will hopefully have seen that the Leasehold Reform (Ground Rent) Act 2022 has now received its Royal Assent, meaning it...

Fifteen businesses which had bought freeh­olds from housing developer Countryside have now given formal undertakings to remove terms that cause ground...

A probe by the Competition and Markets Authority has led housebuilder Taylor Wimpey to make changes for the benefit of leaseholders.  Taylor...

NAEA Propertymark says the news that two major players in the leasehold sector have reformed their activities must be just the...

The Competition and Markets Authority has struck a deal with house builders over leasehold abuses. Aviva has committed to remove certain terms...

Independent agents come in all shapes, sizes and looks, many with their own USPs and little quirks. It is this variety...

The Competition and Markets Authority has written to two top house builders ordering them to change their leasehold terms. In September the...

The Competition and Markets Authority is today opening enforcement cases focusing on the sale of leasehold homes by four leading housebuilders. They...

The death has been announced of one of the country’s leading campaigners against the injustices of the leasehold system, Louie Burns. Burns...

The price premium paid by purchasers for a freehold property rather than a leasehold is at its highest for eight years. An...

So far in our contribution to the campaign to replace leasehold with commonhold we have outlined the stories of some of...

The leasehold scandal has received plenty of press coverage, with horror stories of people living in homes that are impossible to...

Developers have continued to sell thousands of new-build houses with leaseholds, despite a government pledge to ban the “unscrupulous” practice a...

The cost of new-build leasehold properties has surged 16 times faster than freeholds according to research from property investment platform. The revelation...

At any given moment it’s difficult to say which issue dominates our marketplace, but I think it’s fair to acknowledge during...

The Court of Appeal is today expected to rule on a legal battle which may be critical in determining the value...

A sales progression tool claims to have reduced the average transaction time for a property from around 94 days to around...