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Dave Sayce, Founder and Managing Director of Compare My Move, reflects on the legal changes that will make leasehold purchase more...

The Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill passed its second reading in Parliament last night. Housing minister Lee Rowley pledged that the legislation...

Real estate consultants SHW is advising leaseholders not to wait to extend their lease. The call follows the start of the Government’s...

Housing Secretary Michael Gove has signalled that legislation to allow for further leasehold reform will be included in the next parliamentary...

Recent political changes – and there have been quite a few in recent weeks – have brought about something of a...

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

There has been so much coverage recently over how painfully slow conveyancing is at the moment - 18-20 weeks is now...

New rules on leasehold homes came in this week, banning ground rents on new leases but a property expert warns this...

The Bank of England’s continued rise in interest rates – the latest being a shift up to 1.25% - is, in...

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

House and apartment sales are still being hit by confusion and worry over ground rents on existing second-hand leasehold properties. This is...

Leasehold, quite rightly, remains not just an emotive topic given what has happened over the past decade, but it’s very much...

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

The government has set up a committee to push forward ideas on the collective form of homeownership known as commonhold. Housing Secretary...

A leasehold reform campaigner says government proposals risk creating a two-tier market and do nothing to assist leaseholders already hit by...

The Competition and Markets Authority has formally launched an investigation into the sale of leasehold properties - including possible mis-selling. This follows...

In recent weeks our campaign to replace leasehold with commonhold has continued to gather momentum both in the press and across...

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

The Law Society claims that the unforeseen charges faced by some purchasers of leasehold properties could be addressed “if developers and...

There’s been a dramatic improvement in the speed of searches being completed and returned by local authorities, the government claims. Housing minister...

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

Almost all buyers of new build houses who purchased a leasehold regret doing so, and the vast majority say they definitely wouldn't...

To say this is a turbulent time for UK politics would be something of an understatement. As I write, the Brexit...

People living in leasehold properties should extend the remaining terms of their leases before they drop beneath 80 years, according to a...

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

A specialist leasehold enfranchisement firm has branded government leasehold reforms as "incredibly weak". In an announcement lost in the noise following Damian Green’s sacking,...

Labour MP Justin Madders is working on a Private Members' Bill creating leasehold reform in a bid to help leaseholders who, he...

Even so close to the event, I don’t think anyone will be deeming 2017 as the ‘summer of love’.  The summer of...

Without wishing to blow our own trumpet at this time, we did say at the start of the year that 2017...

There has been general support from the industry for the government’s apparent intention to ban new homes in England being sold...

The government says it wants to ban “unfair” leasehold charges imposed on buyers of new-build homes in England.  Under the measure, subject to...

Not only did Theresa May stun everyone with her decision to call a ‘snap election’ but with the campaign now underway...

Leaseholds Solution - the company behind the Association of Leasehold Enfranchisement Practitioners - says it wants recent proposals to modernise the...