Landlords Beware
Landlords beware; commercial leaseholders may get round restrictions in their lease to achieve residential use which brings the potential right to forcibly acquire the freehold (enfranchisement).
Legal Updates
The Autumn Budget 2025 – What It Means for Property Owners, Landlords and Tenants
The Autumn Budget 2025, announced today by Chancellor Rachel Reeves, has finally clarified several rumoured tax changes to the property market – namely, to council tax, income tax and stamp duty land tax (SDLT). Key changes and potential knock-on effects are outlined below.
Enacting the remaining Law Commission recommendations relating to the Right to Manage
As we have discussed in our previous articles, it was announced in the King’s Speech that the Government’s legislative programme would include draft legislation on leasehold and commonhold reform: the “Draft Leasehold and Commonhold Reform Bill.”
This implied that the Government might leave the previous Conservative Government’s legislation, The Leasehold and Freehold Reform Act 2024, on the shelf and perhaps implement a wider set of reforms consolidating the existing law following the recommendations made by the Law Commission.