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The Leasehold London Conference 2025, held on 19 March, gathered over 200 industry professionals from across the residential leasehold sector for a day packed with valuable insights, collaboration, and networking.

The UK government is considering legislation to mandate that landlords, freeholders, and letting agents cannot unreasonably refuse tenants' requests to install fibre broadband in rental properties.

A retired couple is suing developers over claims that a £35 million, 19-storey office building obstructs natural light into their £1 million South Bank apartment, making it difficult to read in bed.

I recently bought an electric vehicle, but my apartment building does not have any EV charging units installed. I spoke to the managing agent, and they said there are no plans to install them in the near future.

Are you dealing with mould in your home? You’re not alone. Homeowners and renters alike are dealing with damp and mould up and down the country.

A freehold development site in Rugby town centre with planning permission for 122 apartments has been brought to market by Watling Real Estate with a guide price of £2.2 million. 

West One Loans, a leading provider of property finance and specialist mortgages, has today announced that the company has hit the significant milestone of £1bn of lending within the development finance sector.

Search interest for ‘how to deal with noisy neighbours’ has soared in recent days, as shown by Google Trends data. But with legal action costing anything from a few hundred pounds, to several thousand pounds, many may want to avoid costly legal action against their neighbours, and resolve disputes in a more cost-effective way.

In advance of the Spring Statement next Wednesday (26 March), Adrian Plant, Director of shared ownership provider SOWN (part of Leaders Romans Group) has written an open letter to Matthew Pennycook calling for urgent intervention to raise awareness of Shared Ownership:

A London property developer has been fined £63,000 plus costs after Britain’s workplace regulator found multiple failures at a construction site in Dalston.

Trail Group has appointed Darren Vince as Minor Works Division Manager as part of its ongoing expansion. This is a new role to head up a team of multi-trades specialists to deliver responsive repair and maintenance works for Trail’s social landlord clients

The Leasehold and Freehold Reform Act 2024 (LaFRA) represents a significant shift in property ownership laws in England and Wales, aiming to enhance the rights of residential leaseholders, this being flat and house owners. While it received Royal Assent on 24th May 2024 only a few provisions were brought into effect then, and it wasn’t until the end of January that the first change relating to enfranchisement rights came into effect. This was the removal of the requirement to have owned your flat or house