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Real Insight - Issue 1 2025

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INTRODUCTION - Welcome to the first edition of Real Insight, our new UK real estate update. Among the subjects covered in this edition are the emerging success of data centres in the planning system, continuation funds,...more

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Shock and Law: UK Government's Surprise Proposal to Ban Upward-Only Rent Reviews

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For years, upward-only rent reviews have been a cornerstone of the UK commercial property market, offering landlords and investors a reassuring degree of income security and predictability....more

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

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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

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

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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

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Government to ban leasehold houses and set ground rents at zero

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Following the consultation in summer 2017 on ground rents and leasehold houses the government has published its response with the following headline proposals...more

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