Ground rent ban comes into force in June
"This is an important milestone in our work to fix the leasehold system and to level up home ownership," says the Leasehold Minister, Lord Stephen Greenhalgh.
Leasehold shake-up promises the ‘biggest reforms to English property law for forty years’
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‘POA’ listings banned as Trading Standards deems price-less properties ‘unlawful’
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"I understand that regional mayors may soon be given the power to ban properties from being used as short-term lets," writes James Forsyth, political editor of The Spectator, in The Times.
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