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• Might consumer protection law be a silver bullet against freeholders' escalating ground rents? (And the threat to reform?)

  By Sebastian O'Kelly| Leasehold Knowledge Partnership@ Professor of land law, University of OxfordDisclaimer: this post is an academic discussion of the law and not legal advice. You should not rely on this blog post. You should seek your own legal advice on the topic discussed. The Labour Government is committed to ‘tackling unregulated and unaffordable ground rents’, but there is no information about the timetable or what form it will take.

  By Sebastian O'Kelly · Leasehold Knowledge Partnership

  Mar. 11, 2025

• Path is set to kill off leasehold and replace it with commonhold

  By Sebastian O'Kelly| Leasehold Knowledge Partnership@ It really looks like it is going to happen. The death knell of leasehold has been sounded and government is determined to finish it off. Commonhold is going to become the default tenure for flats and creating new leasehold ones will be banned. This time we actually think that this will happen.

  By Sebastian O'Kelly · Leasehold Knowledge Partnership

  Mar. 10, 2025

• Might consumer protection law be a silver bullet against freeholders' escalating ground rents? (And the threat to reform?)

  By Sebastian O'Kelly| Leasehold Knowledge Partnership@ Professor of land law, University of OxfordDisclaimer: this post is an academic discussion of the law and not legal advice. You should not rely on this blog post. You should seek your own legal advice on the topic discussed. The Labour Government is committed to ‘tackling unregulated and unaffordable ground rents’, but there is no information about the timetable or what form it will take.

  By Sebastian O'Kelly · Leasehold Knowledge Partnership

  Mar. 11, 2025

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Leasehold Knowledge Partnership

Leasehold Knowledge Partnership seeks to reform residential leasehold tenure, improve practices and provide a fair editorial service on the sector. It is happy to accredit managing agents of proven merit in serving the interests of leaseholder-controlled blocks. It also will accept advertising from professionals seeking business from leaseholders. It is a registered charity (number: 1162584) and the secretariat of the All Party Parliamentary Group on leasehold and commonhold reform chaired by the MPs Sir Peter Bottomley (Conservative), Justin Madders (Labour) and Daisy Cooper (LibDem). The deputy chairs are Marie Rimmer (Lab), Baroness Gardner (Con) and, with special responsibility for the cladding and building safety crisis, Sir Bob Neill (Con) and Stephen McPartland (Con).