Replacing Leasehold: Can the government persuade the market?
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 to start…
Robert is a Partner in the Residential Property team, specialising in the purchase and sale of high-value residential property and mixed-use assets.
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