Tips & Traps to avoid for leaseholders, freeholders & resident management companies
Presenting the next instalment in our ‘Tips & Traps to avoid…’ series where each month we will be showcasing examples of businessmen and women who made easily-avoidable errors costing them their valuable time and money. Take our advice and don’t make the same mistakes they did! (Although Hillary Cooper Law loves the idea of representing
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A Whistle-Stop Tour of Updates for Leasehold Reform
‘The current leasehold system is outdated, unbalanced and broken and we are determined to fix it’. These are the ominous words of Leasehold Minister, Lord Stephen Greenhalgh, who earlier this year expressed a view shared by many leaseholders in England and Wales. 2022 opened up with the Department for Levelling Up Housing and Communities (DLUHC)
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Lease Extensions: What People Ask and What You Need To Know
What is a long lease and what is a short lease? For leasehold owners of flats (as well as houses), simply put, a residential long lease is a lease that runs for a duration of more than 21 years when it was originally granted. Although, most flat owners will have residential leases that run for
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