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![MPs demand scrapping of ground rents on leasehold properties](/upload/images/shutterstock_385772824.jpg)
Sky News is reporting that up to 30 Conservative MPs are threatening to rebel against the government’s approach to ground rents...
02 May 2024
From: Breaking News
![Law Society building safety guide clarifies agent and conveyancer responsibilities](/upload/images/shutterstock_1182175984.jpg)
Conveyancers shouldn’t give buyers and sellers assurances about building safety remediations unless they are confident doing so, the Law Society has...
16 February 2024
From: Breaking News
![Agency trade body asks Government why leaseholders are still being ignored](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/AgentsWorking-400x310.png)
Propertymark has written to the Government to ask why attempts to protect leaseholders are being ignored. It comes as the Earl of...
15 August 2023
From: Breaking News
![‘Car crash’ building safety rules putting sales at risk](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/PropertyNews1-400x310.png)
An estate agent is urging people selling their flats to have building safety documentation in place before putting the property on...
26 June 2023
From: Breaking News
![New building safety registration gets underway](/upload/images/shutterstock_2021310086.jpg)
Hundreds of high-rise buildings have been registered with the new Building Safety Regulator (BSR) since its launch last month but it...
25 May 2023
From: Breaking News
![Building safety laws set to delay home moves – claim](/upload/images/Featured%20content%20for%20the%20Features%20newsletter%20LT_LandlordBuyer_March_Content_Legislation.jpg)
The Building Safety Act will cause further delays to the home moving process, a senior industry executive has warned. Rob Hailstone, chief...
18 May 2023
From: Breaking News
![Conveyancing Association launches building safety guidance](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/Happy(F)Landlord-400x310.png)
The Conveyancing Association has launched a guidance document for firms that addresses the Building Safety Act and Building Safety (Leaseholder Protection)...
02 May 2023
From: Breaking News
![Building safety support gaps ‘jeopardise housing market’ – warning](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/NewBuild-2-400x310.png)
A senior peer has vowed to do more to ensure that leaseholders excluded from new building safety regulations get the support...
27 April 2023
From: Breaking News
![Government rejects Propertymark-backed building safety amendment](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/Court-UK-2-400x310.png)
A Propertymark-supported amendment that aimed to bolster support for leaseholders in unsafe buildings failed to gain approval in the House of...
26 April 2023
From: Breaking News
![Fourth version of BASPI form launches with queries on building safety](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Rental%20Market/Estate-Agent-400x310.png)
Trade and representative bodies representing the legal, surveying, estate agency and property management sectors have launched the fourth iteration of the...
03 April 2023
From: Breaking News
![Propertymark backs leaseholder building safety protections](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/shutterstock_579626938.jpg)
Agency trade body Propertymark has backed calls for greater leaseholder protections as the Levelling Up and Regeneration Bill proceeds through Parliament. The...
01 March 2023
From: Breaking News
![‘More work needed’ a year since cladding reform pledges](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Developments/Builders-400x310.png)
It’s been a year since Housing Secretary Michael Gove declared that was “morally wrong” that leaseholders should pay to fix unsafe...
11 January 2023
From: Breaking News
![Trade bodies unveil new LPE1 conveyancing form](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/PropertyNews2-400x310.png)
Trade and representative bodies covering the legal, surveying, estate agency and property management sectors, including the Conveyancing Association (CA), have launched...
09 January 2023
From: Breaking News
![Government unveils cladding fixes pilot for 'unsellable homes'](/upload/images/Housing%20Market%20%26%20Property%20Images/CladdingScandal3-400x310.png)
The Government has unveiled a pilot scheme aimed to help more flat owners whose homes have become unsafe and, in some...
01 December 2022
From: Breaking News
![Help to Buy home sellers hit by building safety issues](/upload/images/Politics%20(MPs%2C%20party%20logos%2C%20etc)/MichaelGove-400x310.jpg)
Housing Secretary Michael Gove has committed to look into issues with the Building Safety Act after MPs claimed leaseholders and Help to...
22 November 2022
From: Breaking News
![Housing Under Rishi - don’t expect much (but be grateful for that)](/upload/images/Politics%20(MPs%2C%20party%20logos%2C%20etc)/Rishi%20Sunak%2003_400x310.png)
And…breathe. For a while back there, the only certainty for the housing market was uncertainty. That isn’t to say the election of Rishi...
29 October 2022
From: Features
![Michael Gove 'gets it' - why his return is good news for the industry](/upload/images/Politics%20(MPs%2C%20party%20logos%2C%20etc)/MichaelGove-400x310.jpg)
Recent political changes – and there have been quite a few in recent weeks – have brought about something of a...
29 October 2022
From: Features
![Extending Right to Buy won’t fix the housing shortage](/upload/images/Politics%20(MPs%2C%20party%20logos%2C%20etc)/BorisJohnson-4-400x310.jpg)
Prime Minister Boris Johnson recently announced that he is considering extending Margaret Thatcher’s Right-to-Buy scheme, that gives council tenants the chance to...
14 May 2022
From: Features
![Cladding Crisis - government STILL doing too little, say cross-party MPs](/upload/images/Housing%20Market%20%26%20Property%20Images/CladdingScandal400x310.jpg)
Too many leaseholders will fall through the cracks of the government’s “piecemeal measures” to combat the cladding crisis. That’s the view of...
16 March 2022
From: Breaking News
![Government threatens developers over cladding payments](/upload/images/library/PayingBills-400x310.jpg)
The government is threatening to deny planning consent to developers who refuse to pay towards the removal of unsafe cladding on...
16 February 2022
From: Breaking News
![Banned: Developer kicked out of Help To Buy because of Grenfell link](/upload/images/library/CladdingScandal400x310.jpg)
A company linked to the refurbishment of Grenfell Tower is being excluded from the government’s Help to Buy scheme, pending the outcome...
20 December 2021
From: Breaking News
![Pincher survives as ruthless Johnson reshuffle concludes](/upload/images/Politics%20(MPs%2C%20party%20logos%2C%20etc)/BorisJohnson-4-400x310.jpg)
Boris Johnson's sudden and unexpectedly ruthless Cabinet reshuffle, which drew comparisons with Margaret Thatcher's 'purge of the wets' in 1981, ended...
17 September 2021
From: Breaking News
![National Leasehold Campaign backs latest CMA action on ground rents](/upload/images/Housing%20Market%20%26%20Property%20Images/NewHomes-400x310.png)
One of the biggest campaign groups calling for leasehold reform has welcomed the action taken by the Competition and Markets Authority...
16 September 2021
From: Breaking News
![The Cladding Scandal – what do you need to know?](/img/default/eat.png)
The Grenfell Tower disaster in June 2017 exposed the dangers of inflammable cladding on residential tower blocks, and what has come...
05 June 2021
From: Features
![New Property Tax - consultation begins on 'cladding' tax proposal](/img/default/eat.png)
The government has launched a formal consultation process on a new residential property developer tax which is to contribute towards cladding...
30 April 2021
From: Breaking News
![Two new property taxes announced by Housing Secretary](/img/default/eat.png)
The government has given details of two new taxes to provide funds to address the cladding problem on high rise tower blocks...
11 February 2021
From: Breaking News
![New tax and billions more for cladding - but is it enough?](/img/default/eat.png)
Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick has announced “an exceptional intervention” promising that leaseholders in high-rise buildings above 18 metres will bear no...
10 February 2021
From: Breaking News
![Solve this NOW! Campaign to make cladding flats sell-able again](/img/default/eat.png)
Survivors and bereaved family members from the Grenfell Tower fire have joined forces with residents trapped in allegedly dangerous flats in...