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Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill – really helpful rule applying to houses in potentially reducing the premium will be removed.

Aside from the main changes already reported on the proposed legislation in this blog, one subtle change will be the removal of s3(3) of the Leasehold Reform Act 1967 applying to houses.. This allows a tenant to go back to the beginning of prior leases (assuming each prior lease was a long lease originally of… Read more »

Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill – will it all happen?

Today the government at last introduced in parliament the much anticipated legislation ‘to simplify and make cheaper’ the process of extending a lease or acquiring the freehold, the reforms having been on the cards since January 21 as reported on this blog. The process though is likely to turn into something of a damp squib…. Read more »

When is a garden not a garden?

I was asked to advise on the potential purchase of a ground floor flat that looked directly onto a very private lawned communal garden through floor to ceiling picture windows and with direct access via a recently constructed decked bridge. The other lessees gain access via the basement common parts and a rear door leading… Read more »