UK Housing
This is the placeholder landing page for my commentary and analysis of the UK housing situation.
Managing multi-family accommodation, UK-style
Meta
What should leaseholders campaign for in 2025?
What does abolishing leasehold really mean?
The Power to Appoint Managing Agents (PAMP)
Current parliamentary leasehold activity
What did Labour actually promise on leasehold?
How easily can LAFRA be commenced?
The Alleged Flaws in LAFRA2024
Politicians' interventions in leasehold disputes
Whose agenda was LAFRA implementing?
The Tories finally move to ban new leasehold houses (2024)
Prospects for leasehold reform (2022)
British homebuyers must boycott flats with third party managers
ALEP's PR campaign on leasehold reform
Politicians intervening in leasehold disputes
A solution to leasehold forfeiture
Information rights of English tenants
Right To Manage
Enfranchisement & valuation
Against retroactive Right To Participate in enfranchisement
Central problem with collective enfranchisement
Commonhold
Commonhold and airspace development
Analysis
How many leaseholders are there?
Separating the hats in leasehold
Management companies and managing agents
The Companies Act and leasehold
Cooperatives for UK housing (bad idea)
Estate management company types
Mapping the block management territory
What is to be done about Residents Management Companies
Taking back control of a Residents Management Company, a case study
Fleecehold
Starting to grapple with fleecehold
Anti-Social Behaviour
ASB / community trigger discussion
Historical
Phase-out of leasehold in Scotland (alleged)
Problematic activism
Leasehold, forfeiture and rent-strikes
Capping variable service charges
Leasehold Derangement Syndrome
That claim that leasehold is only in England and Wales
The actual definition of "Affordable Housing"
YIMBYism etc
NIMBYs, YIMBYs, BANANAs and SULTANAs
What leaseholders wish Create Streets knew about tenure
Links
TBD / Forthcoming
- WITBD re Shared Ownership
- problems of tripartite leases
- problems with social & affordable housing
- service charge fraud