News & Analysis as of

Leaseholds Rental Property United Kingdom

Hogan Lovells

The politics of housing: Changes to UK residential property law - beware the law of unintended consequences

Hogan Lovells on

The last government made significant changes to leasehold including banning new leasehold houses through the Leasehold and Freehold Reform Act 2024. The current government has indicated it will go even further through the...more

BCLP

Longer Leases, Lower Ground Rents and Leasehold Liberation: Residential Reforms in the King’s Speech Explained

BCLP on

The King’s speech announced a new Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill ‘to reform the housing market by making it cheaper and easier for leaseholders to purchase their freehold and tackling the exploitation of millions of...more

Hogan Lovells

UK landmark reforms in the private rented sector

Hogan Lovells on

Residential property reform is high on the government's legislative agenda as announced in this week's Queen's Speech.  Proposed changes to the rental market include banning the so-called no-fault evictions, a commitment to...more

Hogan Lovells

Interim Code rights – the Telecommunications Infrastructure (Leasehold Property) Bill

Hogan Lovells on

What are interim Code rights? Operators have been having issues in relation to non-responsive owners of multi-let buildings where the Operator’s customer occupies part of the building as a tenant. This means that there is...more

Hogan Lovells

Unleashing real estate’s potential: what follows next?

Hogan Lovells on

The real estate sector will welcome the stability, at least in the short term, that such a decisive election result brings. Jackie Newstead, our Global Head of Real Estate, predicts a post-election bounce in investment...more

White & Case LLP

European Real Estate Finance: Recent developments - December 2019

White & Case LLP on

As part of our periodic updates, here is an overview of recent developments of relevance to participants in the real estate finance market across certain key jurisdictions in Europe....more

BCLP

The housing market in a changing political landscape

BCLP on

The residential market has attracted a huge amount of attention and pledges of reform from all sides of the house. There has been a constant stream of consultation on both long leaseholds and short term lets. ...more

Hogan Lovells

Consultation launched on enfranchisement rights

Hogan Lovells on

What does enfranchisement actually mean and what’s wrong with the current regime? Enfranchisement is the process by which people who own property on a long lease may extend the lease, or buy the freehold.  ...more

Hogan Lovells

Commonhold: Dead duck or ugly duckling?

Hogan Lovells on

Tasked with reinvigorating commonhold, the Law Commission has published a consultation on its proposals to make commonhold a workable alternative to leasehold, for both existing and new homes....more

9 Results
 / 
View per page
Page: of 1

"My best business intelligence, in one easy email…"

Your first step to building a free, personalized, morning email brief covering pertinent authors and topics on JD Supra:
*By using the service, you signify your acceptance of JD Supra's Privacy Policy.
- hide
- hide