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Leasehold reform has rightly focused on increasing leaseholder rights, transparency and accountability. Those changes are important and long overdue. Leaseholders should understand how their money is being spent, have confidence in those managing their buildings and be able to challenge poor practice where it exists.

Good customer service. We're all taught it. Yes sir, no sir, three bags full sir. Give the customer what they want. So that's what people do: run themselves ragged doing 'their job,' when half the time they're not doing the job at all. They're doing the opposite of it, and they've no idea.

The Upper Tribunal’s decision in Mountview Estates Plc v W8 Property Ltd [2026] UKUT 196 (LC) provides useful guidance on the condition in which a flat is to be valued when calculating the premium payable for a statutory lease extension.

Commonhold is an alternative form of property ownership to freehold and leasehold. Whilst commonhold has existed since 2002, it has proved to be hugely unpopular, with only 20 commonhold buildings currently existing in England and Wales. Perhaps the greatest issue with commonhold, however, is a lack of understanding.

There has been a huge amount in the press about the “feudal” system of leasehold and how the government’s revitalised commonhold will fix all of the problems associated with long leasehold ownership. But will those buying into or converting to commonhold find that the old adage “be careful what you wish for” applies to them?

Property management organisation, ELM Group, is pleased to announce the introduction of a new apprenticeship role within its Head Office Customer Services Team, reinforcing its ongoing commitment to creating meaningful development opportunities and supporting career progression across the organisation.

New research from Lyons Bowe solicitors has found that conveyancing costs have remained remarkably steady as a proportion of house prices across the UK, providing essential reliability for homebuyers during another year of market and economic uncertainty. 

Britain is experiencing a boom in professional landlord businesses, with new analysis revealing that the number of companies being formally incorporated has increased by over 1,700% since 2000.

The first half of 2026 has seen considerable change to the private rental sector with the implementation of the Renters’ Rights Act (RRA), and with more changes down the line, there is a lot of misinformation and speculation making the headlines. 

I recently read the Government’s consultation on quid pro quo ground rents, issued alongside the draft Commonhold and Leasehold Reform Bill. At first I thought I understood the offer: where a leaseholder knowingly accepted a higher ground rent in exchange for a lower premium, that lease might escape its proposed cap of £250 a year, falling to a peppercorn after forty years.

Andy Burnham has officially become the UK's new Prime Minister, marking a significant shift in Labour's leadership and raising fresh questions about the future direction of housing policy, leasehold reform and the wider property market.