Government opens important leasehold reform consultation

Last year's "radical" Planning Bill is long gone, replaced with watered-down reforms that promise local referenda on planning decisions and a few other tweaks.

It is often said that more books have been written about commonhold than actual commonholds have been created; the key problem is confidence, says Robert Barham, but there are a couple of obvious places…

The Renters Reform Bill promises a "new deal" for England's 4.4 million private rented households, says Downing Street.