The Govt is consulting on permitted insurance fees and tomorrow is the last day to complete! The problem? Leaseholders receive inflated bills for buildings insurance because brokers often pay a kickback to the agent or freeholder who placed it, which…
One of the first items in the Government’s long awaited reform has landed! It’s a very minor change and doesn’t address the major issues that currently blight leaseholders’ lives. But it’s a start! A new buyer of a leasehold property…
Today Matt Pennycook, Housing Minister released an update on leasehold reform. Campaigners have been asking for a timeline, and we now have this, but nothing is going to happen fast! The overall message is “this will take longer than we…
Managing agent First Port has been invited to Parliament to answer claims from leaseholders about bad management. Twenty-four Labour MPs have found a pattern of consistent complaints from their constituents – including rising service charges with no evidence, and lack…
What’s the deadline? Tuesday 22 Feb. What’s the survey about? In 2020 the Law Commission published detailed proposals for the reform of leasehold and take-up of commonhold. The Department for Levelling up maybe wants to head off objections from freeholders…
On Sept 16th several hundred leaseholders staged a rally in Parliament Square to ask the government to resolve a growing crisis over unsafe buildings and who should pay to fix them. The rally was a response to several overlapping crises…
