Mark Chick is senior partner and head of the Landlord & Tenant team at Bishop & Sewell. He is recognised as a leading UK authority in this sector and is leasehold reform specialist. He is also director and a founder committee member of the Association of Leasehold Enfranchisement Practitioners (ALEP).
The new prime minister has a narrow opportunity to put the Commonhold and Leasehold Reform Bill before parliament prior to the Labour conference. An early first reading could bring useful certainty, but difficult questions on
Dear Secretary of State On behalf of ALEP (the Association of Leasehold Enfranchisement Practitioners), we would like to congratulate you on your new role at this pivotal moment for land tenure and leasehold reform. The
A year after the Leasehold and Freehold Reform Act (‘LAFRA’) appeared on the statute books, a new survey of property professionals reveals that while reform remains welcome in principle, confusion and delay have left leaseholders,
In March, the government published a Commonhold White Paper: the first stage in its fulfilment of a manifesto promise to abolish leasehold. The ministerial foreword to the white paper states that ‘The government is determined
2024 has come to a close with some very welcome clarity from the government on leasehold reform. Is this an end to uncertainty? At ALEP’s annual conference in October, the overwhelming sentiment was one of
On 23 June 2021, the Competition and Markets Authority (the ‘CMA’) announced that it had obtained undertakings from Persimmon PLC and Aviva in relation to actions taken concerning ground rents and the sale of freeholds