The rot in UK housing goes deep and 'false representation' is rife at all levels Steve Reed Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Gov Darren Jones MP

The end is nigh for ground rent investors, long overdue

Housing in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 is flatlining ‘We’re not, building, buying or selling’ Abolishing leasehold for commonhold could be the heartstarter the sector needs to liberate 100’s billions of equity and kickstart renewal Millions might even love you for it Steve Reed Darren Jones MP

I disagree That’s like saying: ‘Slavery works very well with the right slave owners’ The fundamental premise of the freehold-leasehold system is wrong It’s a feudal relic that disenfranchises 5.3mn leaseholders in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿and doesn’t belong in the 21st century

Excellent review of the state of leasehold in🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

In July 2025 the UK’s top housebuilders paid £100mn for the Competition & Markets Authority to drop an investigation into their ‘price fixing and cartel-like behaviour’ so they could avoid a legal decision🤔 bbc.com/news/articles/…

London flat sales won’t recover until existing blocks can easily transition to commonhold and it becomes the default tenure for new build blocks People are smart and they know buying a leasehold flat is a bad decision Commonhold is the way

How’s that promise to ‘build 1.5mn new homes in this parliament’ going? The Labour Party

Endless ‘drafting’ and ‘consultations’ isn’t delivery Big Freehold’s rugby teams of KCs and solicitors will be all over those consultations hammering wedges into every nook and cranny to dilute and delay and chisel loopholes big enough to drive a Maybach through Big Freehold is

Check this out if you’re attending the The Labour Party conference today Thank you Barry Gardiner MP for your relentless advocacy to abolish leasehold and introduce commonhold as the default tenure for flats in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Lawyers love a loophole

This could be phrased…Developers hold the government to ransom saying they won’t build unless the affordable homes target is reduced to 10/15% per site in London. The government can say one thing but if they aren’t actually doing the construction they remain at the mercy of

Emma Fildes It could also be phrased that the govt is putting developers in an impossible position whereby building 35% of affordable homes makes the 65% too expensive to sell.

Can't think of many better illustrations of how badly we have botched housing policy than the fact that our bill for housing homeless families (£2.8bn pa) is now higher than the money we spend each year on new affordable housing (£2.3bn) insidehousing.co.uk/news/english-c…

‘Zoopla's analysis reveals Government's 1.5 million homes target is unachievable as building costs have risen faster than house prices.’ thenegotiator.co.uk/news/land-new-…

A clear-eyed, stark and important perspective on the state of UK housing policy by a serious voice who has a firm grasp of the scale of the problems Enough of the red hat signing ‘cosplay populism’ The Labour Party

Are we going to see the Leasehold and Commonhold Reform Bill in 2025 as promised? Only 76 days left before recess on 18 Dec Matthew Pennycook MP Darren Jones MP

Housing starts in London have stopped

What we urgently need in housing reform is less consultation and more action Matthew Pennycook MP