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Housing and Planning Minister, Matthew Pennycook, said: “This government promised not only to provide immediate relief to leaseholders suffering now but to do what is necessary to bring the feudal ...

Change will ensure flat owners are not second-class homeowners and that the unfair feudal leasehold system is brought to an end, building on the Plan for Change ambition to drive up living standards ...

The change would impose an outright ban on the centuries-old leasehold system, which has its origins in feudal times. Under the current system, third-party landlords can own a building's lease and ...

New leasehold flats will be banned by the next election in a move ministers say will bring an end to the centuries-old "feudal" property system. The government has set out its next steps to scrap ...

Housing minister Matthew Pennycook described the system as 'feudal' while announcing plans to move to the commonhold system, which is already standard for apartment owners in Scotland and other ...

New leasehold flats are set to be banned under Government plans to make commonhold the default tenure, with homeowners expected to have greater control over their properties. Housing minister ...

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